v0.06.0 Progress Update (April)

Hi everyone! Back with another monthly progress update blog-type post! And of course, the sharing of my thoughts and plans, which are constantly in flux!

- A quick note about version numbering: I've decided to revert to a more traditional version numbering method. v0.06 is now v0.06.0. The last digit will simply refer to minor updates within the major version of v0.06; subsequent major updates will just increment by 0.01.0 instead of sticking to even numbers, and minor updates will increment by 0.00.1 instead of sticking to odd numbers. I though I was being clever in how I was communicating major vs minor updates but it's best to just stick to convention here.

- v0.06.0 was supposed to be the first half of Chapter 2, with v0.07.0 (previously referred to as v0.08) being the second half. However, because v0.06.0 and v0.07.0 combined will be so much longer than desired for a single chapter, and because thematically the two halves are quite different, I'm just proceeding with v0.06.0 as Chapter 2 and v0.07.0 as Chapter 3. Chapter 2's title has thus changed to "Entangled", rather than the title I teased in February.

- Final render count for Chapter 2 is going to be around 500, possibly a little higher.

- Final word count will be around 20,000 words.

- I've had to make so many custom props for this chapter... way more than Chapter 1!

- There will now be five puzzles, rather than the 3 initially planned. 1X Focus, 1X 2-star, 1X 3-star, and 2X 5-star. They are all prepared, I just need to implement them into the code. Tuning the difficulty of 5-star puzzles was a bit of a challenge, as I'd like them to be relatively difficult but not overly long or intensive. I made a couple other puzzles which are much harder than these 5-stars but they are... too much, probably. I might just include them in the future as additional challenges outside the story.

- Two animations planned. Not yet completed (they are the last images I create).

- Just one 3D image, probably. Still planning to fix the cross-eyed viewing issue.

- In order to release this as quickly as possibly, Chapter Select will be released in v0.06.1. That's what I'll work on in the intermediate week between Gold and Silver releases.

That's all that comes to mind at the moment. Thanks for reading and thank you for supporting the project!

:)

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-Tessa