Progress Report

Alright! Way passed time for a progress report. But the upside is that the news is almost entirely good. In light of that, let's dive right in.

Haven's Port

Things have been progressing just about as well as I could have possibly hoped with the rendering for the build. As I type this, the final render of the 8th scene of the Arena Champion ending is rendering. As the Arena Champion Ending is only intended to have 9 scenes, being one of the smaller endings (whereas The Merchant Princess, the other faction-neutral ending, was the largest), that means I'm only a day to day and a halfish out from finishing the final ending. After that, I'm intending to do one short and one longer scene...and then that will be it. Of course, that's only for the rendering, but that still leaves the rendering finishing right on schedule for the month if nothing goes wrong. Post processing might take a bit longer than usual, as I'm hoping to sneak a little bit of post work on some earlier, rougher renders of the game in. But if that doesn't happen, it doesn't happen.

All of that said, I do have a single small warning. It is possible that there may be a day or two of delay on this build. That actually isn't because anything is going wrong. Instead, it's straight up life-events getting in the way. Specifically, I have oral surgery scheduled for the 30th, which will probably take me out of commission for that entire day. That's irritating, given that the end of the month is always crunch time, and it's possible that losing an entire day of crunch will lead to a small delay. There's nothing I can do about that, though. This is a follow up root canal to the one I had in June. They/I were hoping they would only need to do the one tooth...but were wrong. Now the one behind it also needs to be done, since it's giving me constant low-grade pain. And the 30th was simply the earliest they could get me in (unless there is a cancellation). Unless something goes horribly wrong, though, any delay it causes should be pretty minimal.

Mixed Media Short

This is the only other remaining reward for the month, and is also right on schedule. All rendering for the next Xanadu Emporium entry is done and, as soon as I finish with this progress report, I'll be doing all the post-processing. With a little luck I'll be able to start tackling the writing for it in the next day or so, with an intended release date of either the 24th or 25th. I'm simultaneously juggling the next release of Mass Effect: Final Error for the fan fiction Patreon, so it's possible dates might shift a bit. But it shouldn't be by much.