Corporate Development Memo (10/17/2020)

I am doing this a little earlier than Sunday because I am happy to say that I will finish all renders tomorrow!  The projected size of 0.3 will be the following: 992 renders, 34,600 words, the total of Episodes 1-3 combined will be roughly 2,109 renders and 77,100 words.  Whew!  I've been running hard for a few weeks straight, so after I finish the last renders during the day tomorrow, I'm honestly going to hang out with friends at night and refresh the mind!  Then Sunday, it will be the start of all play testing, editing and music!  I've been so bogged down in details the last two weeks, so it's going to be weird going back to the forest view versus the trees on Sunday! 

I realize I missed my late release window of October 17, but I honestly was basing that off a size of roughly 750-800 renders, not nearly 1000.  I hope all of you can understand that and I do plan to make 0.4 shorter!  This episode just had to be a little longer to ensure everyone is at the same place, etc.  0.4 should actually move quicker with errr....action versus Episodes 1-3 as I think I have set up a lot of the branches for the future.

Another note is that if you end up using a walkthrough later to see all choices, please note that MANY of the choice flags from 0.3 will not impact 0.3 but rather later down the line in future episodes.  That is by design.  In fact, some flags are way way out from when they matter, but they are there anyway early.  I actually have all of the major choice flags all the way through Episode 11 (the planned end roughly, depends on size, if they are all 0.3 size, it would be less than 11 episodes!) already mapped out, so for example you might have a choice from 0.3 that doesn't matter until many episodes later.  Just FYI.

How long will it take me to do music and edits with play testing?  (keep in mind it's just me alone testing it, I just release a test version with no other feedback, maybe crazy lol)  I usually take about 3-5 days, but this one is a little bigger and more complicated.  Having said that, I doubt I take longer than a week, but please note I might discover a weird issue along the way!  But absent that, I am pretty confident that a test version is out before next weekend, and usually a general release (depending if test version goes well) isn't too far behind.  (I hope!)

I know I am rambling now since I've been at it hard tonight, so I just want to say thanks!  I have some possible good news regarding the game overall as well so I want to get to that after I finish 0.3!  Have a great weekend!