Dev Diary 42 (Patreon)

Hello all, TD here with the next dev log of Ch4Up1. I hope everyone is doing well.

All told, we're sitting at 561 static images, 6 animations, and 12,477 words. I thought we would come in below average with me being out of town and all the prep work Hana's date has required (they'll be multiple location changes!), but it looks like we managed to roughly hit our usual 2-week output - our graphing friend can let me know if I'm super off base with this.

We flew past Ian's portion of the update this week, of which there are some fairly important choices that will affect how some of the game's endings will play out, and are now on the last, large, final stretch of the update: the date with Hana. This has been a long time coming, with a lot of build up, so I'm really excited for us to sink our teeth into it.

The Hana portion will add a huge chunk to the current render and word count, but all-in-all, this should be a relatively small and timely update compared to our recent ones. This likely won't be the norm (we consider narrative momentum when we consider how to break up a chapter into updates), but I will be curious to see if you guys favor this type of update.

That should about cover it. Thank you all for your support and please look forward to Ch4Up1.