Progress Report #27 - July 17, 2022

Howdy folks!

Early one today as we continue getting closer to the line. Essentially everything is done minus a bit of posing left for scene 8 that I plan to get a big chunk of posed tonight. There is that and the continued search for music for the game. As many of you know, Drifty got slammed pretty hard by Steam a while back so the search for music has become a bit of a scarier one, which sucks for a game centered around music such as mine.

I've found a couple of good places to search for music, but it's a real time sink, so I'm doing it in between posing and then once that is done, I'll be devoting the time that's left while the render queue finishes up trying to find more music. I have a feeling that this is probably where the game will see the most iterations of the course of development as I constantly swap tracks in and out.

So, all in all things are looking good. Once I have everything posed and in the queue it's just a matter of letting the queue do it's thing and playing the waiting game. I expect about a week for rendering to finish up. Then depending on clean-up, hopefully a quick release.

We are absolutely shooting for the last week of July still. I don't foresee any issues getting that done, barring a computer meltdown. The only question is what day exactly and how we will handle it. If things get done sooner than expected, we will do a staggered release as planned. However, if we are closing in on a point where the lower tiers would need to pay for next month to get it then I'm just going to drop it for all tiers at once as that seems unfair. This will only be for the first release, though. No matter what, moving forward it will be staggered.

With all that being said, I'm going to get this into testing ASAP. I don't expect any issues as I've played the game backwards and forwards, but if something is amiss we'll find it so that all we'll have to do is continue dropping images in the code until it's all done.

So without further ado:

THE NUMBERS:

Main menu:

• Animation: 100% (2) for 13 secs of animation

Scene 1 - 100%

• Custom Environment Built - Hellcat Exterior
• Dialogue: 100% (958 words)
• Renders: 100% (108)
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: None

Scene 2 - 100%

• Custom Environment Built - MC’s House Interior
• Dialogue: 100% (706 words)
• Renders: 100% (58)
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: 100% (3 total) for 45 sec of animations

Scene 3 - 100%

• Custom Environment Built - MC’s House and Exterior Neighborhood
• Dialogue: 100% (816 words)
• Renders: 100% (93)
• Coding 100%
• Animations: None

Scene 4 - 100% - UPDATED

• Custom Environment Built - Hellcat Bar Interior
• Dialogue: 100% (3383 words)
• Renders: 100% (353) +3
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: None

Scene 5 - 100%

• Dialogue: 100% (610 words)
• Renders: 100% (66)
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: 100% (4 total) for 51 sec of animations

Scene 6 - 100%

• Custom Environment Built - MC’s Garage/Band Practice Space
• Dialogue: 100% (1097 words)
• Renders: 100% (48)
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: None

Scene 7 - 99%  (UPDATED)

• Dialogue: 100% (4257 words) +304
• Renders: 97% (254 of 261 rendered, 7 in queue) +59
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: None

Scene 8 - 70.83% (UPDATED

• Custom Environment Built - REDACTED
• Dialogue: 100% (1371 words) +1.161
• Renders: 12.5% (20 of 84 posed)
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: 100% (5) for 67 secs of animations

TLDR (The numbers so far):

• Renders: 93% (1,004 of 1,071 total)
• Animations: 14
• Word Count:13,198

Thanks again everyone! Unfortunately the queue has literally been running non-stop for the past couple of weeks. It's put a hampering on the weekly renders, but I really feel like the game takes priority for this final push. I'll get caught up after the game is finished and probably do a few extra fun ones to celebrate once the game is in your hands.

Thanks again, everyone! Back to work I go.

Wilson