Episode 9 will also have a flashback for a certain route. You might have figured already, I really like flashbacks. They give the characters more life and you'll get to know why they are who they are.
While I was writing the story for it, I got ideas after ideas. It was really fun writing it. So fun that I have so much material, I can easily make it a whole episode. Probably even bigger than the first Cara/Nikki flashback and I'm not even finished writing it. But I don't know if people would appreciate it since you'll only see it on 1 specific route and it doesn't progress the main story. So, I started cutting it, making the scenes as small as possible with lots of jumps, but at the same time, keeping it flowing. Not as easy, but sacrifices need to be done here and there. It's still decently big though. I'll keep the long version for a later time.
I started looking at some gallery code. I see there are 2 main "versions". One with a picture that unlocks when you saw a certain scene in the game, that way you know if you saw all scenes or not and one with a replay function. What would you rather have?
I don't know if I'm going to implement it in this episode or in a later one because honestly, I don't understand the code. It seems logical but I just don't get it, I don't know how to start. And I don't want to waste time learning how to do everything now when I can rather use my time continuing with the story/renders instead.
About the Nikki/Cara dilemma. I switched all Cara scenes to Nikki. I think they fit her character better, Cara is more timid. So now I have to come up with something new/different for Cara. I still have some time before I work on her scenes though. I want to finish the whole flashback first.