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I have been up a while, so forgive my brevity! Limiting previews a bit more since so close...but threw in a few nice ones!
I have gone from 2,694 to now
2,986 renders. I am going to end up over 3000, and I am getting very, very close. I am heavily debating how to handle the end for the update, with possibly splitting it into part of 0.7, or doing it all now. It will depend how I go through Thursday. I also have about 55-60 animations, but as I noted, I will not include a fair amount of them in the Test Version. (most animations are from the dom path given I wanted to test them on that side first...for reasons I can go over when discussing post-dev thoughts after I finish 0.6)
I am still off through this Thursday from my primary business. I have an assistant I use for about 20 hours a week just managing personal things for me with some small office work at times, but for these ten days, he is going to do about 100 hours. I hope he survives too! I am hoping to be done with all renders by near this date when I go back to work, so it gives me time to start editing/proofreading/etc. I realize now I have gone a little too big and will never do this again, future updates will be a little smaller but with a faster timeframe.
I can see that being focused on this and not much else is often a 200-250+ render week, but you would get burned out doing this all the time I think. I actually almost did 300 this past week, and probably would have if I was off Monday or Tuesday. (I took off from Wednesday and will go through this Thursday)
I promise everyone I am working REALLY REALLY hard right now (I have gone actually from 1100ish renders to almost 3000 very quickly) and doing everything possible to get a Test Version out ASAP.
I think 0.5 had about 2100 renders, and less than 60k words. I think 0.6 will end up about 3150 renders and almost 100k words. So it's getting big.
I am so sorry for not responding well to messages, some are so nice! But I think right now, staying on task is way more critical, and I feel like a literal machine right now with how I am processing things. I am just considering ALL of you supporters as a critical client like I would with interior design, and acting accordingly. Thank you all for the support and patience!
My family and boyfriend have been super supportive during this crunch, and I know they read this, so thank you! I also have some quiet work with a strict NDA for a AAA game and I thought I had to do some stuff on it at the end of this month, but now it looks like it's not yet so whew!
I am getting Anais maybe for some final help near the end of this week as her gigantic project is about finished. But most likely, she will serve as a primary tester with some render corrections.
I also for the first time have part of one small scene written by someone else. I had my boyfriend help me with a short scene with a male character (I am nervous about how to write certain things like this - basically two guys talking to each other) and I liked his version better than mine. The male character meets Kane with a girl named Alyssa, so that was fun for me recently!
I again apologize for not being super good at responding on Discord/Patreon. I've been up a while so I'm going to sleep! Thank you all!