Monday Update #111 | Progress and Failure

Another Monday has come and I'm back with another update, but in all honesty, not everything went according to plan. Let's talk about what I got done and what I didn't get done, also why this Monday Update is an entire week late.

What I did in the past three weeks:

• Writing: I continued writing the last scenes and final showdown of the first Veil. I got some stuff done, but also fucked up in a way that forced me to rewrite a lot of things. I'm roughly 70% done with the writing for this update.

• Images: Things went a bit more smoothly with the total renders I made, but here too I need to redo some stuff. All in all I'm almost finished with the images though.

• Animation: The animations for 0.4 are mostly done, but I still need to render most of them for a final quality control.

• Gameplay: The gameplay sections are almost done. There is only a bit of finetuning and testing left.

• Environments: I finished all the environments I needed for 0.4.

• Sound: I added some additional sounds, but still need to add quite a few ambiances and haven't done the sound recordings yet.

All in all I made decent progress, but it really is only decent and I could have done a lot more, had I not lost my focus in a major way. I had some IRL stuff happen, nothing crazy, just life things, but they really threw me for a loop.

I completely lost the thread on the game and wasn't seeing any images or lines in my head the way I usually do. It took me the entire last three weeks to really, fully get back in the game. Even now I'm noticing that I'm not at 100% yet, but every day I'm getting better. It's harder than it usually is and I'm noticing that the last time I took a day off was in August of 2023. I really need a vacation : D

But that comes after 0.4, despite everything, I'm getting things done. Slower than usual, but it's happening nonetheless. I'm sorry for dropping last weeks Monday Update and assure you that this will only cause small delays to 0.4.

I'll make sure to deliver the next Monday Update on time and am now going back to working on 0.4, I need to get that lost time back after all : D