Chapter 3 - Progress update #17

I no longer have any mood shots for the progress reports. Since both machines are busy with the animations, I will use random old shots that I created in the past for the rest of the reports.

It's been an up-and-down week again. First, the negatives. After finishing the renders for Scene 2, I found that rendering Scene 1 would take an additional 2-3 days (once you see it you will know why). It's not much, but it does affect my plans somewhat. Additionally, I can already see from the first finished renders that I will need a few more new renders due to some frames jumping around in a way I can’t ignore. However, since I have two weeks for this during the proofreading stage, I could re-render the whole scene if necessary with that much time available, so it's not a big problem, just a little annoying.

Now, the positives. As you may have noticed, another bar has moved in the upper half of the report. Due to the longer rendering times, I had some unexpected downtime. I used that time to find, download, edit, and add music and sound effects to the code of this chapter. As I had originally planned for Chapter 2, I tried out a paid music service again. I added a total of just over 70 new tracks to Chapter 3. However, I'm going to continue using pure ambient music because I think it best suits the game. A 155 euro annual fee also sounds reasonable. The fact that the most popular sound effects are female moans shows me that I'm in the right place for anyone who is worried about licensing. Also, other big developers use their music, so it should be fine for the foreseeable future.

In summary, the proofreading will start a couple of days later. However, as soon as I receive the finished changes, I can release the game 2-3 days after that. I don't want to announce any specific dates yet, but I expect to be able to advance the Tier 3 release to the weekend of August 2nd–3rd.

That's it for this time. Until next week.