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Hey, friends! Hope you're all doing well, today! I'm coming off a long writing/rendering stint this afternoon with another 40ish renders to show for it, and a large section of the script fleshed out and refined. All in all, a solid day's work.
Just to give you a quick state-of-things update: I've finished everything up to the end section of Gabby/Madison scenes which cap off Chapter 10, and am currently working through that bit of rendering. I've still got a bit of work ahead of me, as the final scene is really like.. Four small scenes. One focusing on Gabby, one with Madison, one at the police station, and then a little epilogue that ends the chapter. And I need to plug in a few hundred images to the script, still. But, I'm getting there.
I really wanted to have the chapter out already, for the highest tier of supporters. But, as always, things just tend to take a longer than expected. Still, the plan is to spend the next few days with my nose to the grindstone, and see where I'm at by the weekend. If I can beast through this next section, and get to the police station scene that ends the chapter, I'll be feeling very good.
I know everybody wants a hard release date, but forgive me for not giving one just yet. I don't want to fall into my normal trap of underestimating the amount of work I have to do, and then arriving at the release date and realizing I still have more to do. I'm trying to get it out before the end of the month, but I have no idea if I'll hit that goal. That said, $15+ supporters will definitely get a playtest build with 95% of the content in place (basically everything but the Gabby/Madison content), before the end of the month, even if the final release skids into early November.
The plan for the next two months, such as it is, will be to get Chapter 10 out as soon as possible, and then spend a bit of November doing my usual song and dance of managing the release, doing emergency bug-fixes, etc. Once that's done, and I've got a stable final version, I'm going to be going right into finishing the long-moribund script for the revised Chapter One. Then I'll be taking December off to unwind a bit (while pausing pledges) before returning in January to begin working on the rendering for the all-new, all-better Chapter One.
As always, take care of yourselves, and thank you for your patience and support!