Ocean said;
Back then I didn't realize it but I maneuvered myself into a devil's circle. Nothing ever seemed good enough, I kept redoing renders, animations, etc.
Technically, quite a bit of work was done daily but it doesn't matter if you move in a circle.
Just thinking about Chapter 1 felt like a burden. I didn't really like it and I said more than once that it falls off in comparison to Chapter 2 and beyond. Which just made it worse. It felt like working on something that you knew was about to be spit on anyways.
But it was just my own insecurity about the Chapter and my own expectations. Just stupidity. But we're all flawed.
While there were times where I was making great progress with Chapter 1, discovering so many new and exciting things, I always fell back into the circle.
Then Chapter 3.5 SG was released.
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And I started to utilize the momentum and for the last time redid some renders and said "Fuck it." No more of this bullshit. And after Chapter 3.5s final I went straight to the end of WIAB. Redid 95% of the cinematic, 70% of the lewd animations, and half the update in less than 2 months while also doing 600 renders and a 1:50min cinematic for Chapter 4 SG. I can't stress enough how important momentum is. Not just from update to update but also in your daily life. And the 8000⬠Workstation I bought a month ago helped me a lot with it.
- The last weeks
Around a week and a half ago I got infected with Shingles. Apparently, people who had chickenpox can be infected by it cause it's sleeping in your nerves.
My Doc said it was most likely caused by stress and well... I assume my subconsciousness was plagued quite a bit by the fact that I kept running in circles.
The update would've been out a week sooner but Miss Shingles and her dagger with +10 electric damage and chain lighting thought otherwise.
Anyways, no more bullshit like running in circles. I'll do it as I did with SG Chapter 3.5. A render that was rendered and is not totally crap, goes into the game.
No more overthinking and a much healthier approach to development.
I really want these games to be finished in the most quality way possible and I can't let my own ego get in the way of it.
I apologize to everyone. It was never my intention to make you wait this long.
Anyhow, let's focus on the future. I will take it easy until the shingles are gone and work on Chapter 2 will begin right after the Ch1 full version.
Thanks to everyone who kept supporting WIAB even after all that's happened. I'll make sure it was worth it.
