Progress Report

Yikes, it was longer than I thought since I last did a progress report. I thought it had only been like 3 days, apparently it's been closer to five. Oops. 

Anyway...

Left Hand Magic

By some miracle, I've kept pace with the planned rendering so far. This is more startling than you'd think given that I said 'planned'...because I once again couldn't help myself and got a little over-ambitious, beyond what was actually planned. I might have a problem...

*clears throat*

Regardless! So far, rendering is on time. And the second set of scenes (the softcoreish H scenes with no animation) are actually larger/longer than I'd originally planned. Originally, I'd intended to use 4-5 renders for them, same as I did for the non-H dates/working days. I believe the shortest of them actually turned out to be 7 renders. All four of them are now finished, which means that later today I'll be starting rendering for the first animated H-scene of the build.

This, unfortunately, means that we'll be entering the period most likely to cause delays. So while the news for the game so far this month is 100% positive, that's unlikely to remain so over the next couple of progress reports. Still, hopefully there won't be too many issues. 

Comic/Mixed Media Short

Unfortunately, the news here is less good. Though not yet truly problematic. Essentially, I've run into some totally unexpected issues with new assets I'm using for Bet Maid. They aren't critical failures of the assets, thankfully. What is causing the issue is that, for reasons I haven't been able to identify, the assets in question are causing longer render times than they ought to. As in, 10-12 hours per render. 

This means that I'm slowly falling behind my predicted time curves, but I haven't lost more than a day or so total so far. I'm going to be trying to shift assets around a bit, to use some different ones for parts of the story than were originally planned. If that works, the issue may fix itself. If not, it still shouldn't cause a truly horrible delay. More likely than anything else, it will simply cause some issues with timing for the other rewards.

Short Story

I haven't started. I should have, but I've been constantly tweaking stuff with the Left Hand Magic and Bet Maid renders. This is aggravating, since it's going to cause me to hit a time crunch, despite my best efforts to not do that this month, if I don't get a handle on things. Hopefully, I'll at least get the outline done tonight, then write when I can manage to squeeze in the time in bits and pieces.

Wallpapers

Have I mentioned yet that I hate typesetting things? Well, I hate typesetting things. I should have long since put these up, but...I hate typesetting things. I'll force myself to get it done in the next couple of days.