Progress Report - Various

Alright! Time for the first progress report for June. First, a quick reminder, the three polls are already up for the month. Since they are the three posts immediately previous to this one, I'm going to assume you can all find them without me needing to directly provide links. Second...Galactic Nomad from May, yikes! That one is almost done, thankfully. I should finish up the writing on it today, give it a quick editing pass and post it sometime tomorrow. I apologize for it being even later than usual, but I didn't even get a start on it until the third, because of Haven's Port overrunning its deadline :-(. Now, for June stuff!

Chastity Quest

I must admit that I've been SERIOUSLY annoyed that I still haven't gotten any music into the game, despite it being a scheduled addition for the last three builds. As such, I actually took the two days of CQ development to isolate a bunch of music tracks and where I wanted to use them. I made the call to go ahead and purchase a few bundles of actual commercial-use tracks, so I had several hundred mp3s to sort through for suitable music. The plan is for each major area to have a track, possibly including the major segments of at least SOME of the New Landing quests. Not sure about those just yet. Anyway, I haven't actually put them in the code yet, but that should be a relatively minor task now that I've gotten the track selection done.

Aside from that, the only thing I've gotten done is planning. With each new Hub Area of the game, I have to put in a couple of days to plan out the mods I'll be using, and that's what I spent a bit of yesterday doing. Today I'm planning to get those mods actually installed and tested, as well as outline more fully what scenes I'll be making for the area. Actual video/image capture should start tomorrow if all goes well. 

Everything Else

I know, normally, that I split each of the other rewards into their own little sections. However, the comic and short story rewards still have their polls ongoing. And I haven't actually decided on the subject matter for the wallpapers this month. I'd actually kind of like to do a Chastity Quest wallpaper set, but I'm not sure if it's practical. I've considered hiring an artist to make something, or even doing the art myself since I've definitely gotten better (I'm just very slow). 

Alternatively, I could try cranking up the resolution in my modded copy of Skyrim to 4k. I already capture at 2k, then downgrade the res to regular HD, so it's possible I might be able to do it...I just don't know if I can get dynamic enough shots without seriously messing around with my settings. I have everything carefully tuned to give the best results for the mix of video/stills that I use. The need for the video stuff being why the Chastity Quest images aren't at the staggeringly amazing high-awesomeness some people manage for Skyrim Screenshots. To achieve that, those people screw around with the depth of field and such from shot-to-shot. Which isn't practical for either the amount of capture I do...or for the video at all. Trust me, screwing with the DoF for video makes things look very wonky, I know as I tried...

Long story short, I'm not entirely certain what I'm doing for the wallpapers this month. That was probably way too much exposition for a reward I'm not sure anyone even cares about...