Case Log #30 Ch5

Another no image log, sorry. Rendering of scene 14 is finished. I think the scene is the largest scene so far in the game by render count. Almost 200. I am in the process of creating one character for scene 15, which will include one new environment. I'm contemplating a true cliffhanger for the end of chapter 5, but because it's taking me so long to complete these chapters, it may not make sense. This week I will spend on coding and some leftover writing. The following week I have a bunch of render days, so that will finish the chapter. If I'm not overly optimistic, I should be able to get most of the coding done and be able to just plug the last scene and the animations into the game and voila! Done. This will, of course, be less hassle free than my rosy prediction, but here's to hoping. Why not lean into the smooth-ride-thinking and be happy until it all falls apart?

I heard a great quote/proverb the other day. "If you are not the chef, you are on the menu." I have to try to work that in somewhere. It is afterall a dangerous environment our MC lives in. I don't think that will be particularly hard to shoehorn in. Speaking of shoe horns, that could be used in an icebreaker for one of the love scenes in the future (maybe not;-). I'm getting ahead of myself. The chapter will be done very soon. I will spend as much time as I can in the next couple of weeks to finish it. At that point I will start writing the next chapter immediately and try to get a jump on the process. There shouldn't be too much extra work to be done when it comes to coding the UI after this chapter, so that can be crossed of the list. My goal for next chapter will be to shave a month off of the process. I think that is a better goal AND achievable. 3 months for a chapter would mean that I work on the game as a full time job. It was a nice dream, but I think I'll start with an achievable goal and move on from there.

Cheers!