Case Log #11 Ch4

I think we are about half-way done with Chapter 4. Somewhere around 590 renders. Setting up scene 7 currently. It's a bit of a beefy one, mainly because of the fact that it's really two scenes that depend on a choice made earlier. I might do a poll for the branching moments as I will never have deep branches and from my own experience being an AVN fan, I don't much like replaying something (even when it's good) just to get to a few nuggets that were missed. I don't think the player will miss out on any lewd interaction...so maybe it's fine. I would love to branch properly, but that would take double or triple the time to put together. So I returned from my work trip...another 11.5 hrs. in the air one-way. I was set to render all day Friday, but felt a bit melancholy and unmotivated. Funny how that works. Instead I looked for music and worked on putting a couple of additional player cards into the game. So I got shit done, I think it's just the pressure to crank out images (which are the bottle neck of production) and being able to have fun with it that sometimes gets lost. I'm back to my positive self now! I found some more music, which is great. I tried to animate the main menu and failed, fucking renpy. It seemed so easy in the tutorial:-) But I haven't given up yet. As mentioned, next up is scene 7a and 7b. I'm thinking that most of the renders can be repurposed since it's the same setting and same characters...just different dialogue. I realized that I have to go back and define a lot of the choices made by the player so they can be recalled later. That will all happen before Chapter 4 release, so we can move on and have happy saves. The next few scenes will feature Gabrielle, Valerie, Camille, Amy, and Mrs Berg. If you haven't noticed, I love a name with lots of vowels.

Hope you all are good!