Hi, I'm back from vacation and will continue to give regular updates again.
Vote result for additional character in episode Canopus
The 'tall oriental' has won and her story and dialogues / monologues / scenes is already written as well. I haven't decided for a default name yet. Maybe I'll look some up and create another vote for it.
Progress Update
While being on vacation I tried to write as much as I could and got pretty far with it. Being exhausted from the many hikes I didn't managed to write everything out, but only a few small scenes are missing. All current written dialogue is even edited already thanks to osanaiko. I guess more than 90% of the dialogue is done and it's more dialogue than in the first episode.
Since I got back I started setting scenes up and started rendering as well. Rendering is going slowly but steady.
I made some minor code adjustments as well. I hope the stuttering on some animations when playback speed is increased is fixed and I fixed something on the save-game migration.
I lost a day while trying to create an exterior animation of the ship but I failed to get the result I wanted. For now I see those shots as optional and will try to work on them again when the testing phase will start.
Current status
~ 42 pages of dialogue (already edited)
~ 165 rendered and edited images