Hey, dear patrons!
This progress update was planned to be released like two weeks ago, but I've been quite ill this past week and a half. Progress has slowed down somewhat due to being bed-ridden.
Anyway, As I mentioned in the previous update, and a few ones before, I've changed up my workflow to a more modular one. Comes with some great pros like keeping things fresh, not making backlogs, etc, etc (Besides wallpapers). Another big one is, I'm dedicating more time to each aspect of the game, including animations. I've got more time to make them longer and more detailed, but it comes with a few caveats. While I can make each individual animation longer and more detailed, it takes considerably more time, testing, making changes, etc. Anyway, going forward you will see all kinds of animations. Long, medium-long, short. even though the animations, I think, were good, I had a time limit to make them when trying to keep up with deadlines. Like I said, things used to be about numbers and output. So I sometimes didn't make animations as well as I'd like to.
Another thing about animating is render time. Now with this modular approach, I don't have to worry about render times for animations as much. Regardless, I'm approaching a plateau in terms how much I can do in a certain timeframe. More renders = need more time. More and longer animations = need more time. So I hope as the project grows and we get more support I will be able to delegate some tasks to another teammate.
Also planned to release the wallpapers a good while ago to High Grade tier, but between being sick, focusing on renders for the game, animations, etc, I postponed them. Apologies for that. I will have that backlog cleared asap. perhaps this weekend.
You can expect a scene list in the next progress update that will be out next week along with wallpapers, as soon as my sickness clears up. Everything has been mapped out, all that's left is to create the remainder of renders, the animations and write the dialogues :)
Lastly, I've got a cross-promo scheduled for later today. Post will be released in a few hours.
A long progress update, this one. Anyway, I truly appreciate your support, guys!
Onyx