Weekly update - August 8th

Hi Everyone,

I hope your summer is going great. It's raining here again, we've had an really un Calgary like summer this year. Tonnes of rain, usually there is a hose pipe ban on right now and we've got issues with forest fires, not this year.

Anyway to updates. Steady is the best way to describe this week's progress. My render rig has not stopped. I've also been catching up on the scripting side of things too. I decided to make an internal change to how I build the rest of the chapter out. It doesn't effect the experience in the slightest but changes the way I measure progress. Last week I said I had 4 scenes left, I decided though that some of those scenes are way too big and I need to split them up. The 'big' scene I talked about last week is now split into three. I've completed the first part, which is by far the largest in terms of renders required and I still have the other two parts to complete. I had predicted though that I would be finished the 'big' scene by now but I'm not. I probably a little behind. It's not massive though and I'm still confident in my initial estimate of Aug 29th.

I've passed the 500 renders point now for the chapter. I've been taking extra care with this chapter in terms of art direction and rendering as it is such an important chapter. I've been very happy with the results so far. But this extra attention to detail does come at a price of speed, again though I'm not moving away from my estimate, right now. But I will not cut any corners to get this particular chapter out to a set time.

Nothing new to report on the stuff away from development this week. I've been very much focused on that side of things. BF remains de-indexed on Itch. You can still get to it by using these links if you want to:

Free Demo - https://faenon-entertainment.itch.io/best-friends

Full latest version - https://faenon-entertainment.itch.io/best-friends-complete

That's it for this week. Have an awesome weekend folks. As always thank you so much for all your continued support, and patience, it is never taken for granted. I understand things have been a little slower these past couple of months, due to factors I've already gone over but I firmly believe the wait for the next update will be worth it :)

Cheers,

Fae