Dear Pocket Diary, 3

Sitting at the computers and in dire need of a distraction. So, I find my diary and run my hand across the leather binding (yes, I'm pretending it's real...so what?). It's blank pages stare back at me with a want to be of purpose. I abide (much like The Dude). I put pen to paper and the words flow. My inner thoughts, secrets, and desires become eternalized. Fear of discovery hits me like a sledgehammer. I need to hide the diary from prying eyes. This is mine...MY precious.

Alright, enough of that. Currently I am working on a couple of things. Replacing most of the music and coding the animations so the music doesn't cut out when they are played. It's going well. All music and ambient sfx are complete for first two chapters. I've been putting together some ambient audio for street scenes and flashbacks. It kind of breaks up the wall-to-wall music a bit. Hoping to finish music pass for first 4 chapters today. I decided that I wouldn't touch the code for chapter 5 until I have the previous chapters done. It is just hard to chase down error messages if the scope is too big. Parallel to this, I am going in with renewed effort to get the animation renders started. Esteban (FuckOMatic dev) has posted a very helpful how-to video, so I think I'll be good to go. I've also thought a lot about the animation approach, so now, surprisingly, I feel good about things again. Still have to do the work, but attitude is everything...until it isn't;-)

Other than that, I have to code chapter 5, swap code for player cards to reveal at appropriate time, code fix the gallery (still a dark horse), maybe start to replace some renders from first chapter (depends entirely on how fast I can render animations which are first priority for renders at this point) and then I release the new chapter.

The image above is a cross promo with New Antioch (which will roll out the latest chapter in the next week or two), in addition to that, there will also be cross promotion for Move the Chains, The Power of Truth, and 0 End. It will not change the game experience, but I like the idea of the subtle promotion. Some would call that genius, but I remain humble.