Weekly progress report #53

A happy family photo. Some moments deserve to be immortalised. You know, if we counted, there are actually way more Blakes than three. There's Blake from v0.5 to v0.9, two bimbo Blakes (and there's gonna be another one in the next demo), thug Blake from the dream sequence, etc… Our girl has variety to her, which is always nice. Almost always.

Hello! This is it. The final progress report in 2020. Phew. And coincidentally today marks exactly one year since the release of the very first version of Shattered. That ugly bugged mess of a game which one could finish in five minutes. Oh, how much anxiety I had to suffer that day. I was refreshing the TFG page over, and over, waiting for the feedback. Amazingly enough, it was overwhelmingly supportive. So, I knew I had to push forward.

But my best, and most reliable support is you, of course. Some of you have been with me since the very beginning, others joined not long ago, but one thing is sure: without your help I would've never made it this far. In fact, I would've died at some point. Literally. Throughout this whole year you've been helping me with the new ideas, with some doubts I've had, with ironing out the bugs, typos, and all that stuff. So, thank you very much. Blake helped me to find new meaning in life, and you helped him to do that. I won't say «here's to many more years to come», since I eventually plan on finishing the damn thing, but I will quietly hope that you will stay with me for the rest of the journey.

Okay. Now to the actual report. Not really much to say, really. The work is almost finished. I'm planning on releasing the next demo on 1st or 2nd of January, depending on how fast I'm gonna finish making, and uploading the builds (some of you might not know, but as an Eastern Slav, I come from culture where the New Year means much more than Christmas, which is celebrated in January anyway, so I might want to have some fun that night, I hope you'll understand. But only as long as all the work is done, of course). No polls next week, but there's gonna be enough next month, I promise. In fact, there probably won't be any posts next week, better use this time to test the damn thing, and fix all the issues I haven't fixed yet, right?

So, that's about it for today. But I want to say another thing. Since Blake's world is a little behind the ours in terms of time, they're only getting closer to Christmas. So, think about what kind of present would you want to give to Blake. A pet? Maybe a scooter so he could visit Melinda when he wants to? Or… a latex gimp suit? We're going to have a poll at some point. Think in advance.

Thank you very much, and have a nice day!