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Poll: Chapter Two Release, One or Two Parts
For those who don't have access to or haven't read the Chapter Two progress updates, Chapter Two is large enough that I've been considering splitting it into two releases. As of right now, I am working under the assumption that I'll be releasing the chapter in two parts. I wanted to put this poll up to get an idea of how you all feel about it before committing to that plan. If the results are overwhelmingly in favor of the single release, then I'll switch gears, otherwise I'll be moving forward with the two release plan.
Very little content-wise would change between the two. The only notable difference is that with the two releases, I'm planning on pushing where the chapter ends back to where I originally outlined it. While writing the first draft for Chapter Two, it was clear halfway through that it was going to be longer than the script for the first chapter, so I wrote the ending in a little earlier than it was in my outline for the chapter. With the two releases, I'll be writing back in the other scenes that would've been pushed to Chapter Three. The writing/rendering shouldn't take more than a week or two, so between that and the extra time for release prep/handling, the full chapter release will be probably three weeks later under the two release plan than it would under the one release. Not a very significant difference as far as I'm concerned, but I'm sure some folks might feel otherwise. As for the content in the releases, there'll be time with all the girls across both, but the first half of the chapter has more time with Cerys, Anwen, Aerion, and Orlaith, while the second has more with Áine, Bael, Fiadh, and Leala. Edit: forgot to note that there are six "quality time" scenes in the chapter that would be evenly split in the two release plan, so three per release. There'd probably be around 1500 renders in both releases as well, so the two releases would be by no means small. The single would just be really big.
As for when the release(s) would be coming, under the two release plan I expect the public release for the first part to be in early/mid June, with backers getting it either late May or early June, and the public release for the second part in late September or early October. Under the single release, I expect the public one would be mid-to-late September. Note that those are rough estimates and I'll make other posts with the actual dates once development is far enough along.
