Mostly good, though it could be indicative of Ivy to be only interested in Ian if he went out with her best friend. I imagine people like her find this extra appealing. That whole scene with them and Axel decent, Ivy was clearly impressed and intrigued by Ian, who even points out that he is now in her debt.
You're, unironically, expecting higher professionalism from porn game writers than what you get with literally billion dollars worth franchises.
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Hi guys,
This week has been rather rough and I've been having trouble progressing with the writing. It's been hard to focus and sort out all the complex variations in any given scene but, most of all, it's the pressure of development that's being hard to handle. I would've liked to be done with the update by now, and the longer I take to release it, the harder the pressure gets; dealing with long development cycles can really wear you down, especially when there's so much moving pieces and interconnected tasks to take care of. Thankfully I have help with the art and coding, but managing and coordinating people is not that easy and it's not something I have a knack for.
Not everything is bad news though; I've continued to work in the art and that's almost done. We've been also working in implementing a text messaging screen, since the display method that I had been using so far felt really lackluster. We have the screen working, now we have to implement it. I think it will add a lot to the immersion and overall presentation of the game.
Also, the 3 new backgrounds are done, and I'll add a fourth one, so quite a few new places to visit in this chapter. Any guesses?
Regarding the writing, I have left 3 major lewd scenes to write. Once I manage to push through those, I'll need to ensamble the chapter together, make sure everything works and then it'll be ready, so hopefully the release isn't far away. I really need to get this chapter out.
I understand if some of you are disappointed, and I thank the ones who keep supporting the development patiently. Status reports aren't coming out as consistently as they should, but I struggle to write them when I can't share good news, and I'm trying to save my mental energy to focus on the game itself. However, I'm happy that I can start showing some of the work that's been going on for the past few months. Again, thank you so much for your backing of this project, and I'll try to publish a chapter that keeps elevating the experience, even if I'm struggling more than I'd like to do it. My promise is to not disappoint you, and that's what I'm working towards.
Pardon me, but that is BS what you write here! What you describe is not writer´s block, but simply some mental exhaustion, which goes away with some R&R rather quickly. But a real writer´s block can last a lot longer than a couple days!
I have had writer´s block too a couple times in my life! I knew exactly what I wanted to write, but the writing flow was not there, could not get into it and what I wrote did not come out as I envisioned. That is frakking annoying, writing stuff and erasing it because it isn´t what your mind´s eye sees! That can go on longer than just a couple days!
Yea it's not like people want to be paid for their work and earn a living.... The entitlement is strong.
This smells like "depression isn't a real thing, i got out of it just fine" type of argument lmao.
*[from an in-game character]. I mean, he's a bouncer at a club full of drunken sluts. I bet Marcel's doing fine for himself off-screen.
Perhaps those are the formal definitions, but I don't think you can say that writers block should not last more than a few days. It's going to vary a lot from artist to artist. Ernest Hemingway described his problem as writers block and felt it was so overwhelming he eventually took his life. Now, yes, probably a psychologist would say that Hemingway was clearly dealing with something much more serious, and that seems pretty obvious to me, too, but Hemingway felt he couldn't write anymore. It just wouldn't come.
Having good ideas and writing them well are different things I assume. But I'm no writer.
Or maybe now that she has a steady Patreon income she doesn't have the need to work that hard like during GGGB days. Now it's writer's block but she has been working slower since the beginning of ORS. I can't blame her if that's the case, most devs take +3 months to deliver any update these days.Nah, depression is a real issue, you need to build tools/experience to be able to cope with different problems in life. One can have tools to deal with depression, like a therapist... but there is no therapist who specializes in writers block - unless you count me
If writers block was easy to get over, GRRM would have finished the A Song of Ice and Fire series already. Planning is fine but I do not think it would have saved EVA from any of the issues she is having. Plans can change and taking what you have written and putting it into a game is its own separate skill.Nah, depression is a real issue, you need to build tools/experience to be able to cope with different problems in life. One can have tools to deal with depression, like a therapist... but there is no therapist who specializes in writers block - unless you count me
You're acting as if writer's block is something identical from case to case, irrespective of what's being written, who's writing it, and its complexity. If you're just a bit stuck or have lost the flow, taking a break is often enough. But if the problem is something like "sort[ing] out all the complex variations in any given scene", like Eva mentions, the issue is most likely just as complex when you get back to the writing board. That's not primarily about flow, but about hundreds of pieces needing to be assembled, finding the right way to make everything work together.
This is just a straw man. I'm sure Eva's never claimed anything remotely similar to this—and if some completely different developer did, it shouldn't be necessary to explain why Eva shouldn't be held accountable for it.
Which is more or less exactly what Eva has explained over and over that she does in these situations. In this status update as well, but even clearer in the previous one: "Since I couldn't get my head to properly work, I focused on art tasks". You'll see the same if you check the status updates from the previous chapters.
It's pretty clear from Eva's communication throughout the development that the issues aren't about lacking ideas. E.g., there's been several times Eva's mentioned scenes she's finally implemented after having planned to include them for several chapters, but couldn't fit them in. She likely has way more ideas lined up at all times than can fit into an upcoming chapter.
Would you like to write the character bios? Eva doesn't have the time to update them, and we could use someone who'd keep track of the game paths and update the bios accordingly to describe important developments in short sentences.
