Friday Update - September 20

It has been weeks now without a rest. Never before have I run this long or this far. In the past several days it has gotten even worse. I am constantly reassured that the end is in sight, but I know better. There is no end. There will always be a next render. Please, kill me.
     --CarbonBlue's Video Card

Hello, Patrons!

Bad news and good news.

The bad news first: what I both feared and knew would happen, happened. A few nights ago as I lay down for a nap, that asshole voice in my head began talking about a new scene. "Wouldn't it be great if the characters did this? And hey, here's all the dialog that would happen. You should probably be writing this down, because you sure as hell ain't sleeping until you do."

So I got out of bed. And there was a new scene. It took me maybe 10 minutes to plan the renders and write the dialog, and it will take at least a full day to pose and render.

Right now the planned render count of Unleashed 0.3 is 355.

The good news second: I have been kicking ass at rendering the past few days. So much ass is being kicked that I don't believe the new scene will impact the release date, much.

After last night's batch rendering I am at around 300 renders complete. I expect to finish the main renders on Monday. Then I will have a significant number of background renders to do. Then I will have some coding to do. I should be able to release the update on Thursday or Friday, with the caveat that things are always subject to change.

IF I am not able to release the update by Friday then I will not release it until at least the following Monday. People tend to take time away from the internet on the weekend, so it's never a good time to publish a release. However, I do think I can get it done before the weekend, so let's hope it doesn't come to that.

The polls
The results of the music poll were interesting.
-26 people want music throughout the game
-29 people only want music in special moments or they want less music
-22 people don't give a damn

So I'm going to add music to scenes when I feel it's appropriate for now. But I think going forward in future updates there will be more music, if only because there will be more special moments as the game progresses.

For the Lingerie/Cosplay of the Week polls I am going to go ahead and separate the days for those shots. Maybe one on Wednesday and one on Thursday. But I'm not going to make any changes until after 0.3 is out, so you can expect to see both shots today.

I will likely skip next Tuesday's poll and concentrate on getting 0.3 out. Instead I will likely post a mini-update to let you know how it's going and give you a more firm release date. As always, thank you for supporting me! I can't wait for you all to play 0.3.

-CarbonBlue