Hi everybody.
I hope you're all feeling well and had a great week. Here's a summary of our work since the last report:
Chestnut finished all of her pre-planned art tasks, completing cutscenes, hidden photos, and sprite additions. These don't include cutscene variations (different hands and facial expressions) and the new placeholders I created for the polish, but even so, it's great to have the final version of most of the art. In the few days since completing her tasks, she has been refining existing art and making improvements to the visuals.
I dedicated my week to fixing bugs (plus finding a few), and remaking events (or rather sections of events) that needed adjustments, doing recoding, rewriting, and reposing. There were a few coding tasks involving conditions for setting off different events that I also completed. Lastly, I took a break from polishing by spending a day creating sound effects and coding them in.
Two more things: we still haven't recalculated our polish tasks. Once we do, you will see an increase in the number of edits and debugs in the daily progress tracker.
I changed my work schedule last week. Given that working at the same time as Chestnut is helpful when it comes to polishing (being able to give and receive immediate feedback), I have stopped working through the night and instead go to bed early and start my day a few hours before dawn. We'll see how it goes, but hopefully it will be a positive change for this last stretch of 0.8's release.
That's all.
Have a wonderful weekend!Cheers!