Weekly update - August 22nd

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone is doing great, last couple of weeks of summer in the northern hemisphere, enjoy the heck out of them, for us in Canada winter isn't far away :( If you have kids I always like playing the old staples ad from the 90's around now. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkEOrVaBKIU

Anyway to progress. I've been really happy with it this last week. I should be starting out rendering the last scene right now. Problem is, I just added three more! So I have four scenes left to render. Three of which are pretty small to be honest. Scripting has caught up and I'm ahead of the renders again. I've managed to get in some testing too, so that will save me a little time during this home stretch. Next Friday was my target. Will I make that? At this stage I would probably say No, but I don't think I will be too far off it. Again I'll not cut any corners to make that date, the chapter will be finished when it drops.

There is a natural point that I could finish Chapter 9 early, with a really great cliff hanger. I would be able to make Friday no problem if I did that. However I think you guys would literally kill me if I did that. So I'm going to resist the temptation :)

For the stats nerds. Chapter 9 is currently 24 scenes long with 4 more to go which will bring it to 28 in total. Close to what Chapter 8 was in size, that was 27 scenes. There are 562 renders at the moment, which is still less than C8 which had 653 but obviously more will be added. There are 4583 lines of code, which lags behind C8's 5874 but again more will be added. So the decision to split year 2 over two chapters was the right one as the chapter sizes are around the same.

Not a lot happening away from the development for me. I've been too focused on that to spend a lot of time managing the Itch situation or setting up subscribestar.

So that's it for this week. As I said I'm really happy with the progress over the last few weeks. It does feel to me now that I'm back into my groove and I'm really excited for you all to play this chapter, I really like the way it's come together.

I'll end with my usual thanks for your magnificent support hopefully I'll be rewarding that with something really good very soon.

Cheers,

Fae