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Dev Diary 97
Hello all, TD here, and so is Summer!
All told, the update sits at 1,931 statics, 50 animations, and 40,384 words.
That amounts to 200 statics even, 7 animations, and 3,631 words over the past three weeks.
Honestly, not our proudest report. That is well below our weekly average. Work's been getting done, but little hiccups have added up.
For transparency, GIL and I work closely. I write every day, give GIL a script in the morning, and he hands me a batch of images a night. I usually keep a few days ahead, in case I get writer's block or some of my weekly obligations get in the way. It's not a long rope, but we find it’s the sweet point for on-the-fly adjustments and two-way creative input.
This dev cycle, we found ourselves a bit out of sync for a better part of a week and some change. I could never get quite ahead. Some of it was the usual friction (work-related snafus, reshoots, HS Studio being a bitch), but there was also quite a few half days that GIL didn't have a solid script to work on for various reasons that is the fault of my own.
Thankfully, we found our rhythm over the last week, but we nevertheless feel guilty about it. Especially with so much of the update still left in front of us.
The good news is, we're about to close out the final major scene of Exhibition 3's free roam. Anyone wanting a continuation of the Lucy stuff from Felicia's art exhibition will only have to wait for this update. GIL made most of the animations months ago, in one of his lust-demon fugue states. That always entails quality, but I of course had to put my grubby mark on it too. It’s at 10 total animations (more than our report because a lot of it was counted months ago when he made it) and will have another couple by the time we finish tomorrow. For those not interested in the school teacher, there are other ways to wrap up the free roam. I believe I mentioned Hana and Kat in previous diaries.
After that, we have a big scene to kick off the decadent evening and we’ll finally be onto the exhibition proper. I’ll leave the details of that for later.
Thank you all for your support. We will continue to try our best living up to your patience and generosity.