WiAB Chapter 4 - Dev Log #26
Hello,
The log is a few hours later than usual because of what always happens during release-weeks. (Not SG’s release.)
My sleep schedule keeps rotating during these times.
I had to take a step back earlier this week to reset my stress levels.
I can manage to work 14 hours a day for many, many months, but as soon as I get into a release window, I start to struggle with sleep. It becomes “a more pressuring matter” when I start losing weight.
At least I get shredded.
If I only do one or two things, I can work all day, but during release times, there’s so much more to take care of and it slurps me out harder than Vic slurps a juice box.
Add Steam and GOG preparations to this and we have bingo.
I think it’s worse this time due to the pressure I put on myself on getting the updates out.
However, I’m smart enough to recognize when I step over a red line, and I need to take it a little easier. I don’t want to fall back into what happened in 2020/2021 and get depressed/bibi-burnout.
In the past 14 days I focused primarily on animations, but later stopped, and instead did still renders for SG while also juggling postwork.
In the last few days, though, I focused entirely on postwork. I can do around 500 renders a day without losing my mind. It heavily depends on how many renders I find that I need to redo.
I'm probably half done, and noted down 31 renders that I need to redo. I finished most of the lewd animations, however, the last ones took over 48h to render. Those were animations with 300 frames.
I've tested a way to implement the collectibles. So that's sorted out. I will have to create a new gallery for it, so that's added on top now.
I will do that gallery while Steam tests the game and I still need to create the cinematic, and will start that soon.
I will reduce the hours I work for the next week by about 25% to improve my mental health. I always get blasted during release weeks, but this time, it's especially bad.
I'll take no risks with mini-burnouts.
If that leaves a sour taste, please feel free to unsubscribe until I release the update.
No previews because we're close to the release.
I created Chapter covers for the first four Chapters.
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I attached all four Chapter covers at the bottom in full resolution.
Boring personal Germany stuff from here on. You can stop reading here if you only care about game news.
There are other things that worry me, I don’t like what’s happening in Germany right now. A lot of talk about tax increases. (Income tax from 42% to 47%) Capital gain tax from 25% to 30%.
And this is without the social taxes on top. Which also increase every year.
But the biggest worry is a topic that I've been eying for a few years.
The government’s plan to include self-employed people under 30/35 into the state pension. This is a black hole of death. What my generation puts in there, is GONE.
That system will collapse.
And soon they’re probably going to force me in it. Best case is 18.6% of my monthly pre-tax income on top of everything else.
I think it’s a cumulation of all these little things that worry me.
I’ve been thinking about a certain "move" for a while, and two weeks ago, I canceled the lease for my apartment, and I’ll temporarily move back to my parent’s house in order to plan ahead for the next Chapters, and to eventually leave the country in the next 9-16 months... But that's a big IF because of the exit tax.
Afterwards, even if I get forced to pay the pension for a few months, I should still be able to buy licenses, etc.
The move in 3 months will take a day and development continues as usual. It won't be noticeable.
Back to Miru.
