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Every game has its issues. My Dorm is far from perfect, but I work every day to make it better. Sometimes I manage to improve and sometimes don't, but there are a lot of great games out there!
Yes, Nanowrimo's goal is 50k words, I just checked, so no winning it with a My Dorm update
If I had to write a 50k word update in 30 days, and I had someone who rendered it, I guess it would be "easy". In the first week and a half of development for v.0.16, I wrote 19,065 words, and then stopped writing for almost 3 weeks while I rendered the 3,307 renders needed to get those 4 scenes to life. Last week I wrote ~10,500 words because I stopped rendering. And translated the first 19,000 words.
Being passionate about what you do, having most of the story already thought, and wanting to provide a quality game are powerful driving forces.
My wife stopped fattening me when I arrived at 100 kg (220 pounds). Too much for a 1,70 m (5'7") guy. Since then I lost ~15 kg. Now I'm fat, but once again is easier to walk around me than to jump over me.
COVID lockdown messed with my sleeping cycles and I haven't recovered from it. I sleep 4-5 hours daily + a 40-minute siesta 5 days a week. Making use of those extra wake hours to develop is a good way to not waste them.
I sacrificed family time in the first stages of development. A lot of family time. It didn't go well. I (logically) only managed to get an angry wife. So we negotiated. Now, family time is longer than a year ago and everyone is happier.
v.0.14 had 2,196 animated frames. The casual animations (Kim and MC dances) added up to 376 animated frames. The other 1,820 were during the Norah+Erika/Norah/Erika's scene at the pool.
v.0.15 had 2,874 animated frames. The only casual animation I remember (the panoramic view of the "castle room") had 559 renders. The other 2,315 where in Daphne and Eileen's lewd scenes.
v.0.16 will have 2,272 animated frames. 1,728 in Martha+Emma scene, 244 in Meemaw's (pseudo-lewd) scene, and 300 in a casual, but needed, scene with Debbie.
So 1,235 out of 8,342 renders: around 15% of the animated frames have been casual animated frames in the last 3 updates. Around 10% of the total renders (1,235 out of 12,621)
