Weekly report 111

Hi everybody.

I hope you're all doing well and are ready to enjoy your weekend. Here's a summary of what we did last week:

Weekly Report:

Chestnut has continued to test the game, write down possible improvements, and work on visual elements that require polish. She's nearly done fixing all of the artworks that needed her attention, and once she's completed them, she'll be basically looking for typos and trying to break the game by playing the content using different save files until we release.

For my part, I have learned a lot of things this release, one of the main ones being the error of writing more than was necessary. When working on the content, I had thought it would be better to write more since I could always just shorten it in the end, but later I ended up spending a lot of time posing the written lines since it was hard to gauge whether they worked or not without the visuals. Now, though, after playing the nearly finished game, we realized that although the end of the content (quests 2 and 3) are almost as we wanted them to be, the intro and some parts of the first quest are just too long, and mess up the pacing. So most of my work last week has focused on cutting things, scenes that I liked (and worked well on their own),  but that detracted from the experience. The result is better, much better, but I wish I had done more editing before the posing had commenced.

Anyway, in addition to that, I've also fixed some of the bugs identified, found new errors, did the missing background animations, and added the new avatars to the game, finishing all of the main content.

Avatars:

About avatars, if you're a Best Friend or a Close Friend supporter and want your avatar in the game, make it here and send us the code and your chosen name (plus an optional text for Best Friends) as soon as you can. Don't worry about the tasks being done since I always add avatars until the very last minute, and adding yours won't be a problem.

Weekend:

Another thing is that last week, I took half a day off (going to bed early), and the next day my work was much better (both in terms of quality and quantity), so now that I don't think we will release the game this June, we have decided to take this weekend off, to recharge our batteries and try to have a kick-ass release in July. I again want to reiterate that we will issue a refund for any of the current patrons who want one. So if you're a patron right now, your next month doesn't have to cost you anything. Send us a message in the first few days of July, and I'll issue a refund for you at once.

That's all, folks.
Hope you have a restful weekend too.
Cheers