Progress Report #20 - May 22, 2022

New scene. Who dis?

Howdy folks!

Things are moving along nicely. As you can see in the numbers below Scene 4 and 5 are now both officially in the bag and work has begun on Scene 6. The writing is entirely done for Scene 6 and it's a relatively short, so barring any catastrophic issues, by the next weeks update I should be into Scene 7.

Puggy is chugging along on the final couple of animations for the last scene.

Kato, Gery and Evite have all pitched in to help us figure out some of the more complicated parts of our coding. I've got a few things I'm going to be hitting Stew and Stoya up for over the next couple of weeks to try and get everything else cleaned up. The UI is coming together nicely and is complementing the renders well. Evite is working on a gallery setup for the animations so we should have that up and running soon.

As I've been pulling triple duty with writing, coding and rendering, these last couple of weeks have been a little slower than normal for renders, but as of now, the script is about 95-98% complete so the rendering will pick up significantly. I'll need to rework the writing for the beginning of Scene 7, as I've said before, because I've added the choice mentioned last week and that was originally a locked part of the story, so I'll need to do a little bit of rethinking and if/then statements to bring everything back to parity. I've also made another choice a lot more obvious and have addressed a small conversation beforehand, so those parts will be hitting the bricks. I guess the new options will replace the old wording so it'll probably all even out to be about the same amount of dialogue. Knowing me though, it'll probably end up being more.

As you can see from the totals at the bottom of the numbers, this first release is turning out to be fairly meaty with a lot of renders, dialogue and choices so the first playthrough should feel pretty good once it's in your hands. We'll definitely be over 1000 renders by the time everything is said and done if my estimates are correct. We've already had several folks play what we have up to now and the feedback has been positive. It feels good to finally be able to get some feedback and to hear we aren't totally blowing it.

In the coming weeks we're going to start contacting some folks about doing some proofreading for us while we put the final touches on the last couple of scenes. Then we get into BETA. For the most part, our coding is not that difficult as far as the choices are concerned, so I don't see us running into a ton of issues there.

That's about it for this week. 

So, without further ado...

THE NUMBERS:

Main menu:

• Animation: 100% (1)

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)

Scene 3 - 100%

• Custom Environment Built - MC’s House and Exterior Neighborhood
• Dialogue: 100% (816 words)
• Renders: 100% (113)
• Coding 100%
• Animations: None

Scene 4 - 100% (UPDATED)

• Custom Environment Built - Hellcat Bar Interior
• Dialogue: 100% (3383 words) +777
• Renders: 100% (350) +17
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: None

Scene 5 - 100% (UPDATED)

• Dialogue: 100% (610 words)
• Renders: 100% (66) +20
• Coding: 100%
• Animations: 100% (5 total)

Scene 6 - 73% (UPDATED)

• Custom Environment Built - MC’s Garage/Band Practice Space
• Dialogue: 100% (937 words) +437
• Renders: 43% (20 of 46) +20
• Coding: 50%
• Animations: None

Scene 7 - 23%

• Dialogue: 95% (3781 words)
• Renders: 0%
• Coding: 0%
• Animations: None

Scene 8 - 65%

• Custom Environment Built - REDACTED
• Dialogue: 100% (210 words)
• Renders: 0%
• Coding: 0%
• Animations: 60% (3 of 5 total)

TLDR (The numbers so far):

• Renders: 715
• Animations: 11
• Word Count: 8795
• Lines of code: 3299

I'm going to get back to work. I'm currently knocking out this month's customs and I'll add the Bi-Weekly render into that mix. I'll either post it later today or tomorrow when I wake up depending on how things go.

Thank you all and have a great week!

Wilson