Weekly report 231

Hi everybody.

I hope you're all doing well and have had a great week.

Yesterday, we started the second round of polish. Chestnut has been retouching some of her artworks which became blurry during the posing process. When dealing with longer dialogues, I sometimes try to vary things and keep the player more engaged by showing a close-up view of the speaking character, and the result is that some of the sprites (and cutscenes, too) have become a little too blurry in the final outcome. This week, Chestnut wants to fix the worst of those cases by drawing larger versions of those artworks.

As for me, I have plenty more fixes to do, mostly issues I caused (or noticed but left for later) during the first round of polish. I'm two days behind my planned schedule -- I wanted to finish the first round by the end of Monday, but it took until Wednesday. It's nothing major, though, and hopefully I'll catch up. For those interested, here's a list of some of what I still need to work on and finish by next month this time:

• Fixing and improving posing/writing issues (this is the bulk of my work and I’ve already started on it)

• Editing the text to remove unnecessary dialogue to keep things more engaging (I've already started on this one as well)

• Adding more optional convos with different characters we meet or interact with in 0.7 (especially dialogues with Sev)

• Going through the whole game (and not just 0.7's content) again to ensure this update hasn't messed up other stories. I did this a while back, and I've made a lot of changes since.

• Optimizing the more resource-heavy scenes (sexy stuff) to improve their performance.

• Improving the sound (this has been pending for a while, and Chestnut will help me with it)

• Finalizing the crystal ball.

• Testing and more testing. Every time we're changing things, there's a chance of introducing more bugs, issues, or inconsistencies, so we're going to need a few days of testing after everything is 'done'.

I won't deny that I have had moments of regret this past week about having given a release date (the last time we did it, it nearly burned us out), but I have a better feeling about this one, mostly excitement actually, and with a bit of luck all will go well, and we'll have a good release that you enjoy.

That's all.

Have a great great weekend
Cheers