Progress Update

Well, the Prologue is done! (Ok technically there's a little bit of coding left, but that's it). Work on Ch1 is underway - so far I'm around a hundred or so renders into it. Going by my current progress, I want to be started on the first major free-roam of Ch1 by the end of next week. It's fairly large so it'll take me most of the week to complete. 

I also made the first part of the main menu, so that's finally done. I'll save showing any of it until I finish a few more parts and it's closer to complete, but I'm happy with how it's coming out. I also finished building all of the environments for Ch1 except for one - I'll put that one until later, since it's only going to be used for the very last scene in Ch1 (and again in Ch2). It's also small compared to everything else, so it won't take very long. But all the rest are completed. 

I still have a bit more writing to finish up as well - but that will progress as the renders do. 

So what's left in total? Finish all renders for Ch1. No estimate until the writing is finished, but best guess? 1500 more or so. (for reference - just under 600 are done now, plus some animations. Now that all the environments are built and the difficult coding is done, I'll be moving much more quickly. My personal goal is at least 200 a week minimum, shooting for 3-400. For example I've done almost 100 in the last 2 days alone). Finish writing for Ch1 - 22 scenes in total. (It seems like a lot... and it actually is, but realistically it won't take more than a couple of days to handle all of it). 

Finish coding (The main backend system for character traits/etc still needs to be done, this is the only "big" coding project left), create tutorials, Create the gallery and music player systems, (Trivial - I can use the code from Alive as a basis, saving me a lot of time having to build something - then I just adapt it as necessary). 

Music - I currently have the main theme track, and not much else. At some point next month I want to take a day or two and sit down and really tackle music. While honestly I was fairly happy with how the music in Alive turned out, I want the tracks here to be better (both in quality, and in how they fit with the scenes). I was already fairly picky but I'm going to be a lot more moving forward.

Wallpapers and "special" renders. Only a few days for all of those, so no big deal again. 

Clean up a few interfaces - pretty much all of the "real" coding aside from character backend, music, and gallery are done, but the interfaces need some TLC. Right now many of them are just "placeholder" so I had something to use to make it functional, but I need to clean quite a few up. 

Finish the Main menu - the majority is done, it needs one more small element, plus a dozen or so renders for the background. 

Thats... That's about it. I have a list of every single task that needs to be completed, and it's getting smaller by the day. Right now I'm sticking to my previous estimate - I'm expecting to be done by September, but hoping to be finished in August. 

Finally, there's a few days left for all $10 patrons on the Special render poll - be sure to vote! Right now it's a tie, and while I do have plans for tiebreakers, I'd like to see a clear winner! 

That's all for now - I'll have a couple screenshots of some of what I've been working on during the week. For now I'm going to get back to work, since there's a lot to get done! So until next time, have a great week!