[Episode Elnath] Progress Update I

Greetings,

today it will be probably a bit longer as I want to cover a few topics like the story of the next update, audio and SFX, octane, mini-games and a new build.

Story of next update

The other 2 guys that have been shown in a few short interludes will be introduced to the the MC. After the relief in the end of the last episode, this should bring back some tension. Therefor the next update will probably a bit darker and will focus even more on dialogue. However, I will still add some lewd scenes.

Audio & SFX

I plan to create and add more audio tracks for more variety. Also, I plan to add SFX, especially for the erotic scenes. However, I have to see if I can get that right without sounding comedic or over-acted. Voice-Actress and Actors are out of budget at the moment. If I want to do something like that, then only with good audio quality and no over-acted voicing. Therefor I'll look for some sample packs soon.

Mini-Games

There will be at least one more mini-game, probably even two. But I haven't sketched them out yet. There have been a few negative reactions towards the mini-games and a request to make them skip-able. 

I haven't decided yet how to handle that. They are already skip-able with the 'premium' build. If I would drop this feature to a lower tier I would need a better reward for the higher tiers. I probably need this anyway. However, personally I don't really want them to be skip-able anyway, but I'll think about it some more.

Octane

In latest update I said I would upgrade the Octane plugin to take advantage of the few new features it would come along with and to try to fix the continues crashing. Well, I tried the new build and had already upgraded quite a few shaders when I noticed that there are now seam-lines between texture-sections. That's definitely a show-breaker for me. Either I redo all my character shaders with a different approach then I'm currently using and spend a lot of time getting them right or I downgrade again. I decided to downgrade and wait for a fix to not lose to much time before I can keep rendering.

Build

I want to release another build with the fixed mini-games and short tutorials for those mini-games and with a fix for the c++ issue some people encountered. However... just as I'm writing this progress update I noticed something strange in my latest Unity-Build. All default Unity-Sprites went missing, things like images and icons for check-boxes, scrollbars and stuff like that... Need to see if I can somehow fix this... If not this will be a pain in the ass to redo... Don't even want to think about it.

Current status

~ 10 rendered and edited images

~ 20% of the writing