UPDATE: On Health/Recover & Chapter Two – November 5, 2020

First, let me say thank you to all of you who’ve continued to send well wishes and for those of you who’ve remained around as I’ve been healing up. 

THANK YOU!!

Yesterday was my post-surgical exam, which got put off an extra week due to the uncertainly of the rise in Covid numbers in our state, but was finally able to get checked over and have my tires virtual kicked to see if I am still road worthy or not.

According to Dr. Fischgrund, things look really good back there and I am healing up nicely. I still have some swelling and a huge bump back there, which he said will go down over time and that I still have two sutures that haven’t dissolved yet. 

I am now able to slowly increase my activities (which I’ve kind of been doing anyhow), but ‘if problems of pain or numbness in the legs, testicles or feet, stop what I am doing and GO RELAX’!! I am not ready to ‘push it yet’ and he doesn’t want me to ‘undo the work he just did’… and that this ‘isn’t a sprint race’.

Rehab will be discussed in a few weeks, till then, continue at a healing pace and don’t break myself before that time.

Right now, I am pretty much off of the pain killers and muscle relaxers (have to take them now and then for when I overdo things and be a little on the stupid side) and have currently been able to sit between 4 to 6 hours at the computer without killing myself, right now, so I am back to work in those periods trying to get all of the sprite work done for “Chapter Two” of “Wicked Choices: Agents of Karma”, once I’ve completed that, I will finish off the really BIG sex scene that is left to render out and then will be done with my part of “Chapter Two” for it to be assembled for release.

I would like to say it will be out sometime this month, but I think that is unrealistic in my current situation, so going to say the first part of December to be safe and make sure that my recovery from the back surgery doesn’t interfere and cause me to have to revise my schedule for all of you.

Bottom line is: I am doing the best I can and working again, but… unfortunately, not back to a level that I was at before all of this happened, but I am getting work done, trying to get back to a release schedule for our patrons and fans.

Additionally, Epadder and Sierra are still working, trying to figure out the best way in which for the game to handle the additional size that having Sprites will take… granted, the sprites will eventually be less download heavy than full sized, rendered scenes like the way that I’ve been doing things till now, but we still want to find a good compression ratio that won’t kill people’s bandwidth while downloading the game/updates. 

Okay, time for me to end this, so that I can get back to rendering all of Sister Katarina’s sprites for “Chapter Two”… THANK YOU AGAIN for your continued support, dedication to our project and the love and well wishes that you’ve all been sending to me and I will keep you all updated as I progress here!

With much love and gratitude,

~Jack