Hey guys! This week our illustrator lovely Victoria completed one of her big art tasks (a body reshade, and some changes to the small breasts requested by fans), and got partway through the second one. All assets need to be hand-drawn, and these specific tasks are complex because they involve interactivity with multiple layers, expertly applied meshes and lots of fine tuning to make them look right.
I completed around 20 tasks this week. The progress bars look like this:
I’ve been completing mostly boring but necessary things, like fixing dead links, and making sure that playing scenes in different orders doesn’t break the game. (Spoiler alert: it did. 😩) I’ve also been writing every day, patching in placeholder texts with things like actual UI alerts, and fixing various bugs and problems. And also doing some planning and prep work for the next episode.
I did a couple of cool things like restored the options for the heroine to wear glasses in her day-to-day (set her Physique stat below 0 to unlock this), or have six-pack abs (if her Physique is maxed out).
I worked every day except yesterday (when I was feeling drained and burned out and unable to do good work, so I thought it’d be better if I took a day to rest). I got straight back on it this morning.
I’m feeling kind of down because I wanted to get more tasks finished and I feel frustrated that everything takes so long. But I work on it until I’m frazzled (almost) every day. I’m doing my best.
Sorry for being low morale. I’ll get an early night and get back on it tomorrow. 🦀❤️🔥