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Weekly update: Hardware Goal Reached & Public Version Release Date

Added 2019-12-16 20:39:35 +0000 UTC

Hi everyone,

We reached the $1250 goal, which means a big hardware upgrade! Actually, to be completely honest, I bought a new render PC a couple months back that proved really useful during the development of Chapter 2. I didn′t want to announce it back when it happened though because it was soon after the stretch goals were created.

Previously, all the 3D renders were done on an old gaming laptop with about 2GB graphics card memory (graphics card memory is really important for rendering). Now I have 16 GB of memory available. Renders that used to take 4-6 hours now only take about half an hour. Without the upgrade certain parts of Chapter 2 simply would not have been possible. For example, the Helena images with all their variations are more than 80 renders. It would’ve taken me months of pure rendering to get these done. So thank you to every single patreon, you made the new hardware possible, and therefore directly improved the quality of the game!

Additionally, I can now finally announce the release date for the public version of Chapter 2 – it will be Friday, the 20th of December.

Thanks for reading,

hw21