UPDATE: “Chapter Two” Release Progress – December 17, 2020
(as posted on our Patreon Page)
Hello everyone, I hope that you all are doing well and getting ready for the holiday that will soon be upon us next week!
I am sorry that I didn’t post an update last week, we’ve been working our tails off over here and got a lot to share with you, I’ve always promised all of you that I would be honest with you, so settle in with a cup of coffee as I break things down for you and get you up to speed on everything that has been going on over here.
First of all, I had to make some tweaks and adjustments to the second chapter (“
Chapter Two”) of the prologue… We were going to have Sister Katarina arrive in the States and meet the Archangel Gabriel, as well as, Father Kopa and Océane Camille Fontaine (who runs the best clothing store in Garnet City)…
…unfortunately, however, that scene will have to be moved to “
Chapter Three” of the Prologue to “
Agents of Karma” as there was an important “
Reveal” scene that I had originally planned for “
Chapter Two” after the credits for that chapter that
NEEDS to be in there (you’ll understand why when you play that chapter)!!
It wasn’t till I actually stopped working on the Character Sprites and checked my notes to be sure I was getting everything done that needed to be done, finished, when I realized I had messed up… which means I did a lot of work the last few weeks for a scene that has to be pushed back… the work isn’t wasted, just had to quickly shift over to the stuff that
DID need to be done… like the 2,400 Character Sprites of Karma and Brynhildr (like the ones shown in the example above and the one that follows).
This quick shift of gears, the stress of wanting to get the release finished and out to everyone, not to mention the crapload of stuff that I’ve been having to deal with in
REAL LIFE between the wife’s hysterectomy, my two kidney stone surgeries, my back surgery, as well as, me coming off of my muscle relaxers (Methocarbamol) and pain killers (acetaminophen codeine) that I have been taking for the last year and half… well, had me hit a level of stress, frustration, depression and anxiety that the
Wife, as well as, both
Epadder and
Sierra3 had to unfortunately deal with.
In short, while using Character Sprites will make things easier in the long run, it is
STILL a lot of “
FRONT END” work and I felt incredibly overburdened, overworked, unreliable and was actually considering telling all of you that I was done… that I couldn’t go on… that I couldn’t keep taking your money and killing myself with this insane workload… that I would just refund your support and disappear.
So, we had a really
BIG meeting last Saturday to discuss everything and try to right the ship that, to me, felt like it was sinking faster than I could bail it out.
The result of the meeting and the fact that I need your support to survive, honestly, kept me from just pulling the plug on everything… and we think we’ve come up with some ways to kind of take some of the pressure off of me to a degree… and, honestly, it is seriously needed.
While I am working on getting “
Chapter Two” of the Prologue to “
Agents of Karma” finished,
Epadder and
Sierra3 will be working on converting “
Wicked Choices: Book One” to be released on
STEAM… hopefully, doing so, will bring in some extra money so that we can afford to hire additional help that will take some of the pressure that I’ve been feeling off of me.
Additionally, I have talked with an individual that will be building a company website for us, as well as, collocating and managing the server so that we can have a better presence and means to direct people to instead of just Patreon and increase some marketing of our work and products.
Also, through all of this,
Epadder has also been working on the Pathing & Map System that will be needed and used in the
Main Games of “
Agents of Karma”, “
Wicked Choices: Book Two” and “
Wicked Choices: Book Three” that will enable the player’s ability to travel throughout the Main Story of those games and the Free Roam sections of those games, as well as, Times/Periods of Day, the kinds of Travel that will be available to players, costs and money needed to be earned
IN GAME and break things down by
LOCATION for
MAIN EVENTS and
RANDOM EVENTS to listed in those locations.
While it doesn’t look like we are working on the surface, please, please, please, believe me that
WE ARE!
I never, never, never want to do things
HALF ASSED or have
ANY OF YOU feeling like you aren’t getting our very best for the support that you’ve been providing us!!!
We are doing
EVERYTHING in our power to try to get things finished with “
Chapter Two” and while I’d like to have it out this month, it probably won’t be till the very end of this month or the start of January… there is still just too much to do, to just slap it all together and release a half-finished product to you... as well as, try to get ourselves onto a more reliable release schedule of products out to all of you.
If you want to leave, I will understand… hell, even I wanted to leave, so I can’t blame you if you want to as well. All I can say is that I am trying and doing the best I can.
Thank you for your time reading this, thank you for the trust you’ve shown us and your choice to continue to support us if you do and know that I am going to keep moving forward and doing the best we can do for you and we hope that you will find the effort we are trying to put into all of this is worth it to you.
Sincerely,
~Jack
