Hi folks,
Hope you are all well and life is treating you kindly. Before I get into the meat of the dev update, just a reminder on a couple of items in case you missed them.
Season 2 Demo
I released a Season 2 demo (for $5 tiers and above) in the following post. https://www.patreon.com/posts/season-2-demo-5-159662738
I'll make it available for $1 patrons in a few days. The demo consists of the first chapter (out of a planned 6 chapters) of Season 2.
Season 1
As season 1 will be on sale on Steam for most of June, I have decided to make it available to all $10 tiers (and above) on Patreon and it can be found here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/159906139
OR you can always find the most up-to-date links and extra info on my landing page here https://www.patreon.com/posts/37183736
Please bookmark my landing page as it's usual to have and I keep it updated.
Transferring Save data from Season 1 to Season 2
For the demo (and for the full Season 2 when it is released) you WILL be able to import saved game data from Season 1 into Season 2.
To do this... you will need to FIRST create an export file in Season 1. So when you get to the end of Season 1, you will be given an option to create an export file. Please make sure you are using the latest version of season 1 to create the export. Steam will update automatically or if you're playing the Patreon version, the updated Season 1 files can be found here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/159906139
And then when you play Season 2 (or the demo), you can import this saved data. In the Season 1 export screen, you can create up to ten slots for export. But once you have successfully imported into Season 2, you can re-use slots, so in essence, you can carry over as many different endings / saves as you want.
Apologies for the need to go BACK to Season 1 for this. This was my screw-up (due to lack of coding expertises) where I thought ALL of the importing code could be done on Season 2 only. This shit ain't easy for an amateur and I would rank coding as my worst area of expertise I'm better at writing and art (which is a nice way of saying I suck at the coding parts). Although I am proud of the "Start any episode" features and keeping it updated for Season 2. :) :)
Season 2 Update:
So... (And I know this update is already a slog before I get into the actual update)... I still need to take a few lines to say a MASSIVE, MASSIVE thank you to Cell and C3NT. Their level of effort (and morale support) and the sheer amount of work they've gotten through over the past few weeks has been phenomenal and I'd be lost without them. I had a very bad month in May (personally -but I won't go into details as I don't want to seem like I'm peddling for sympathy 😊) and the workload of WTHI didn't help, but Cell / C3nt both helped me get out of the hole and I I really, really apppreciate it.
And also wanted to say a massive thanks to ALL of you patrons for your continued support. Thank you!
OK.... enough of that soppy shit... How is Season 2 coming along?
So... with the exception of two animations (which will be finished today), the first 3 chapters are fully complete. Once I slot the animations in, the QC team will get Chapter 3 tonight, so within a week, the full first half of Season 2 will be completed and fully tested.
For chapter 4, the art is pretty much done (minus animations), and C3nt and I are tweaking the script. By the end of June, I expect Chapter 4 will also be fully completed and tested and we'll have moved onto Chapter 5. So by the end of this month... Chapters 1-4 will be fully release ready and Chapter 5 will be well in progress.
Chapter 5 and 6 are a bit all over the place at the moment, so I won't hazard a guess at completion rate yets, but they are coming together and will need less script updates than the first 4 chapters and we also have plenty of art done for them too, so it's not like they are at zero percent.
Teasers:
Enough words... Time to share some pretty pictures....
Let me know of any questions or comments and I'll get back to you all.
Thanks,
CG