Nope, no contact with me yet. And I haven't seen anything get updated in our shared documents (where we develop story and renders). If he's working on something (he could have), he's doing it on his PC and haven't shared anything with me, yet.Damn. So i assume he still hasn't made contact with you re: updates, even after his discord update from earlier in the month saying he was back to working? He has made no mention of pausing payments for this month unless i've missed it.
Hmm, my understanding is that he stopped all payments, until the next release is out. I don't have any access to his patreon, so I guess that's true, right? I'm curious to know if anyone knows something different.
I'm trying to be fair and give the benefit of the doubt here, but I worry that he has a lot of work to do for this release. Even though the percentages were going up in the weekly updates, I didn't see any new renders after a point.
For ch4 there are 350+ renders and only 60 renders in the shared document. And I know that he wanted to re-render the first scene to up the quality. That means 20+ renders. So, my "conspiracy theory" is that for the rest of the scenes, in the past 9 months, he has done a few renders (which were shared as teasers), but he's nowhere close to the finished scenes. But, let's break it down:
- From my point of view there are 290+ renders pending. If I had to do this kind of renders (with my still amateur experience), I'd take 3 months to do this (I can do about 100 renders per month).
- Re-rendering about 20+ renders. That won't take much time because the scenes are already setup, they just need to be updated.
- And don't forget that Suzinak also renders in 4K, where every slight imperfection is blatant. So a single render might take several renders/tweaking till it's final.
- AND he wants to do realistic animations, that takes even more time to setup, animate and render. Again, everything in 4K.
- Also, he has to develop the game (this doesn't have a lot of effort, but it takes some time), and add music.
- At some point he has to share the renders with me to fine-tune the script and maybe alter the text to match the renders/animations.
Now you can understand why I'm not optimistic. I don't expect any release for the next 2-3 months from Suzinak.
If there is, then my "conspiracy theories" are wrong