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Episode 5 - Progress Report #1
🕑 Added 2024-06-02 20:43:02 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
It's been a while since I've done one of these 🙂. First of all, a warm welcome to all the new members that joined in the last couple weeks 😊!
With the public version now released as well, I want to thank you all for the comments and feedback to Episode 4. I'm fairly happy with its reception and I'm also very grateful for the many new supporters that found their way here. If you have more feedback, comments or want to chat with other fans, go check out my Discord server.
I also want to quickly apologize for last week's downtime of my Patreon page. All things are cleared up now and it should hopefully be smooth sailing from here on out.
Now, onto development of Episode 5...
I've spent the last couple weeks writing the episode. I initially planned to make this episode smaller than the last one, but while writing an outline I encountered a couple problems with pacing and "packaging" the episode. Not only for Ep.5 but the one following it as well.
I made some plan changes and eventually decided to just start writing. I currently have a finished rough draft, but...
Starting with this episode it's a bit harder to estimate render counts, since I used to do that via amount of dialog blocks. But as the story progresses, there's a lot more small variations of dialog depending on your choices. A lot of them don't necessarily have different renders, which means that the render estimates with my old method would now probably overshoot by a lot.
This means it's even harder for me to figure out how long an episode really is when it's written, but even with all that I'm still pretty sure my current draft would be too big for one episode.
I've decided to spend some more time getting this draft in order before I start with renders. I currently can't say if I'll cut it down to a more appropriate size or if I'll split it in two. I'm currently leaning towards the former, since the latter would bring a whole bunch of other difficulties with it. So... thanks for your patience 😅. I hope to finish it this coming week so that I can start with renders a week from now.
I'm also aware that I'm a little behind on bonus renders, but I want to prioritize writing the episode before I spend too much time with other things.
I also want to do a couple polls about Ep. 4, so if you haven't finished it yet, you might want to be a little careful, since you might see things pop up here with some mild spoilers.
❤️ Alright, that's it! Thank you for your support and take care! ❤️
Comments
Jadeskye
Can't wait. I loved the choice at the end of episode 4, don't kill yourself tripling up on scenes.
