Progress update on Shadow Island R4

The progress has been decent this week, albeit a bit slower than expected on the art side, our background artist had an unexpected computer problem and had to replace his unit after the motherboard died but everything is back in order right now and no files were lost in the process so the worst was avoided and he will be able to catch up fast on the planning. 

Overall, everyone has fully returned from the vacation and problems, so we are hitting max productivity again, 

Meanwhile, the story/script is almost fully written outside of the two sex scenes and the ending interaction for the version + the final draft where we take a look back on everything and adjust every detail to make it as perfect as possible.

Outside of that, we added the night weather time successfully to the game for all locations, including audio ambient, and put most of the first draft script interactions in the game. What is missing is mostly adding the sound effect and the last few interactions, but also more importantly the sex scenes which do take quite some time to do right.

Ultimately the art might delay things a bit, but based on my own estimations I think the new version could be released by early October (~10th October). It's what I aiming for.

I'm also already looking into possible solutions to increase efficiency, trying to relieve some of the pressure on the art by hiring an extra person capable to do some small characters illustrations seen from afar, so that the time of the main artist really goes into what's the most important: sex scenes/sprites work. 

Because while the situation is manageable right now, it might become increasingly difficult as the sex scenes will really multiply in the futures version but so is our need for multiples small illustrations for the story. This might become a real problem that might slow down things without an appropriate solution. I have contacted the TQ artist to see if it could be possible to make some of the very far illustrations like for example the two guards sitting at the gate and other small illustrations of this type that don't require a lot of details, done by him in order to let Kojack fully focus on the rest, and given the number of sex scenes that are coming, this would be truly awesome if it could work out. We gonna experiment this week but we are not sure this is gonna be yield good results so fingers crossed for now.