CH01 Arrangement Complete!

Now just ironing out some details, just want to make sure that everything looks shiny. When I complete the last detailing run tomorrow I am submitting it to the host for review then up for initial release.

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As 1 of my New Year's resolutions, I will stop trying to beat insane deadlines after carelessly anouncing them and rather work carefully on every game this time. It feels much more rewarding to have a more detailed and better crafted game that took a bit more time that something too rushed and not even enjoyable to play. I know I spend too much time already as 2-4 months for a game is a lot of time, yes? But speed also increases as expertise improves and in every new project there is always something new, some area that is improved so yes, it will be better as we go.  The year is just starting and  everything is just warming up, hopefully it will be an opulent year for all of us!

I have timed myself during the creation of CH01 and here are some data:

1. Creation of detailed sex loop: 1-4 days.

2. Creation of a semi detailed picture screen: 1.5-3 hours.

3. Coding an engine: 4-8 weeks.

4. Creation of a highly detailed picture screen: 1-2 days.

5. Creating cel-shaded standing portraits: minimum 1 hour.

6. Adding music, sfx and cleaning music bleeds: 48+ hours (Seriously tedious)

7. Arranging some dialogue-driven cutscenes: 1-3 days per act.

8. Idle time during flash slow downs: 30 seconds - 3minutes.

Total working day spent in an 16 hour awake period:

Good day: 16 hours (Minimal bathroom and food breaks)

Ok day: 8-10 hours

Lazy day: 2-4 hours

*Every week I usually do about 4 good days, 1 ok day and 2 lazy days! (Yep, I've quit my stupid jobs so Hornblaise is high priority and thank you guys for supporting us, I mean we haven't reached the 1k milestone yet but whatever, artists sometimes starve but they sometimes win too so it's a fair life!)

There you go, that should also somewhat explain why It takes extra time adding stuff to CH01. I usually find my goals to be completed then something exciting comes to mind then I delay or get side-tracked again, further moving the game's completion date.

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I am thinking of skipping the other games lined up and go ahead and start CH02 (Technically CH05 but CH01 contains 4 chapters so yeah) to at least maintain continuity. Also have this other short game series in mind which will feature the seeker cameras, I hope we'd have more Seekers in our team! It means that the content will have more parodies and mini games featuring popular characters (as seekers travel the universes to record sex *speaking in theme).  Either that or just proceed with the scheduled games, no breaks, we'll see.

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That's all for news this week, the game is out soon, banner for next game will be posted soon to signal production, as always thanks for supporting Hornblase!