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The Interim Domain 0.03.0 update #2
So, all apologies for not being totally available for comments here, Discord or Twitter over the last week or so. I've been tied up in a huge day-job project that's got me working 55+ hour weeks for the next few months. And then, last week I got my Annual Cold, which means I was super doped up on a cocktail of shit that got me able to work but gave me the attention span of a gerbil. So, most of the work being done was polishing code or content already built, because the process of writing new scenes more than five lines long was just more than my brain could manage.
We have been toying with varying lighting and rendering tricks, to push a different look to the experience. There's a few scenes between 0.03.0 and 0.04.0 where we implement volumetric lighting, which works great for atmosphere. And, yes, there's already some 0.04.0 content already being worked on. I mean, when I have a weekend day free to me, I'm going to use it to work on a \"longer\" scene, wink wink.
In terms of the 0.03.0 build, a large portion of it is in a playable state. With the restructure of the Side Story code into what appears to be a final streamlined state, there is the likeliness that some saves from 0.02.0 may not work right. Or saves that happen after the first time you chose a side story, because the game tries to call back to code that's no longer there and can't be kept for the new stuff to work. I figured we needed to lock this down now so that any future updates are HOPEFULLY future-proofed. I hate to do this, especially with the problems with N&T's saves, but getting this all implemented now is important. The hope is that by the time 0.08.0 rolls around, you'd have dozens of story moments to pick and choose from and you could focus an in-game week just hanging with one person (baring Main Story moments).
Now & Then FINAL update:
We've gotten the work for the first eight chapters finished (or close enough - there might be a few extra re-shoots here and there). Already written and partially shot are two new Julie scenes for Part 2, one of which is a Then scene and the other is in Chapter 16. At this point, I figure there'll be a lot fewer re-shoots to clean up old scenes and more work adding either new content or tweaking scenes that are already in there.
Thanks for your interest and patronage,
-Kinderfeld