UPDATE: It is DONE!!!! – August 29, 2020
(as posted on our Patreon Page)
It is with great pleasure and relief that I can tell you that the
Remastered Chapter One to the Prologue and the start of “
Wicked Choices: Agents of Karma” is
DONE!!
Despite several setbacks, which I will get to in a moment, I finished my part of the Remastered Prologue yesterday and have added nearly
1000 WHOPPING new story renders and animation into the previous done chapter introducing new characters and increasing the mythos that surrounds the Antichrist.
Epadder and
Sierra3 have been working steadily (and continue to do so) on this with me, as I completed a section, I would send it to them to work on and inject into the story…
Epadder has been fully integrating the programming and framework that we used in the Remastered “
Wicked Choices: Book One”, as well as, background music and
Sierra3 has been going through and correcting all of my spelling and grammar errors and adding in the sound effects.
None of this would’ve been possible without their tireless work, nor without all of your continued support and patience and I am
EXTREMELY GRATEFUL for it!!
I ended up two weeks off my original mark and goal for completion and release… and, for that, I apologize…
Things have not been good over here, health wise… the shot that I got in my spine to try and reduce pain and swelling in June for my lower back wore off earlier in August and it was confirmed that I did indeed rupture a second disc in my spine… so now, instead of dealing with one ruptured disc, I am dealing with two and the third one is still pushing rather firmly, as if stubbornly, against the sciatica.
This situation has had me taking far more pain killers than usual (over 20 days this month alone) and left me spending less and less time at the computer to do my work than I would’ve liked… and, also, has made the usual task of correcting my spelling and grammar a much harder task for
Sierra3 who has had the unfortunate job of trying dealing with run on sentences, or broken/incomplete thoughts and such, instead of just my usual mistakes.
Usually, I’d have gone and gotten the surgery that I need long before that it had reached this stage, but due to the pandemic and to the fact that my wife would unable to be there for me during and after the surgery… leaving me alone post op in the hospital… makes the idea of surgery still a “
No Joy” for me.
Still… I am tired of hurting all of the time… even in my sleep the pain is there, whether I am dreaming that I am confined helplessly in a wheelchair or being shot in the back by a shotgun, this pain is endless and enduring.
I am not telling you this for pity, I am telling you this because I seriously believe that there will come a point in the near future where I feel that the pain is just too much to deal with and I will move forward with the surgery, regardless of the outcome or inconvenience it may bring with it…
…if that time comes, either
Epadder,
Sierra3 or my
wife will certainly let all of you know on our discord, here and other social media means.
Till then, while
Epadder and
Sierra3 are putting the
Remastered Chapter One of the Prologue to “
Wicked Choices: Agents of Karma” together, I will be working while I can to finish up
Chapter Two of the Prologue for everyone.
As soon as
Epadder and
Sierra3 are done with their work and it has been quickly run through by the testers, I will release the
Remastered Chapter One to “
Wicked Choices: Agents of Karma” to all of you, so expect to see that in a week or so…
As for
Chapter Two, I am going to continue to do my best for all of you… all that I can do is tell you what my hope is for a release of it, but at this stage and considering that I am not able to spend as much time sitting at the computer and working on the game (or even my normal job, which is on hold because of on the pandemic), all that I can promise you is a “guestimation” to the release of
Chapter Two and that I am going to do the best I can in this situation.
I am
REALLY SORRY for all of the bullsh*t that you and everyone has had to endure because of my health problems, I
PROMISE YOU that I am doing the best that I can and will continue to do so and it is my
HOPE to get back to some semblance of normalcy where I can get back to releasing monthly again.
I appreciate your enduring patience, your understanding, your continued support and look forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts
SOON on the
Remastered Chapter One when I get it out to you… I am really quite proud of it!!
~Jack