Mind Drop #2 (12/14/2020) (Patreon)

Yo 😊  

Another week, another post. This week has gone similarly to last as everything has gone according to plan and that's pretty awesome.
So, not sure if I want these posts to be on Monday or Tuesday. Or if they'll even have a dedicated day.  One weird thing to balance and why I wish patreon was a bit different is frequency of posts. I don't want to spam posts as I'd like things to remain somewhat tidy and it's led me to think of a few different ways to handle things going forward. More on this below but let's talk about how this week went in terms of the game.  

Game related stuff:

- Still on course for an update at the end of this month.  

- I've been working on my workflow a bit. Just trying different things out and seeing what suits me best. I believe these changes will help improve the quality of the game. (More on this in dev related stuff below)  

- My new dual 3090 system is insane and renders so fucking quickly and the only reason I have it is the insane support you guys show me so thank you all so very much. <3   

- This upcoming update is rather basketball and team focused.   

Dev related stuff:  

- Not sure if I'll be pausing this month or not. It feels weird as I haven't delivered anything yet but it was also the plan not to. I'll probably unpause as long as the update is out at the end of the month but I may pause it anyway just until I prove I can be consistent. I dunno yet.

- Potential future of how I handle posts.
So essentially my issues with wanting to keep things somewhat tidy stems from me wanting to hold more polls but not feeling like they warrant having their own post. I've considered just running polls through my discord but I know there's a good many of my patrons that don't use discord and I don't want to make you have to go out of your way to vote in them. I may just start making these weekly posts also be poll posts and have the question be the last thing in the post or the very first thing so it's easy to find. We also just might try a few different things. (Client polls will still be their own posts)  

- What to call these weekly posts. Oh shit as I'm typing this I realized this is the perfect poll to start these off with.

- Changes to how I work on WVM.
Oh boy I typed out like four paragraphs on specifics of the changes and realized it got way too confusing and deleted it all. Let me try to do it and say way less.😂  

I had a sub-optimal system (that gave me optimal results) where I'd spread the amount of work over 16 hours as I'd render throughout the day as I finished scenes and I'd also work on two different scenes at the same time on different PC's. Going forward I'll be doing all of my scene work on a single PC and rendering them all at the end of the day / overnight. Essentially front loading all of the work instead of spreading it out which will allow myself to have a more flexible schedule while still achieving the same amount of work.  This new system isn't perfect as small mistakes in scenes tend to shine through in a much larger way (Much like the MC losing his bruises for half a scene) but its positives outweigh the negatives as it'll allow me to be way more efficient and the small mistakes are things that should get better as time goes on and I get used to working this way.  Ideally I'd do around 7-8 hours of posing / scene work and 3-ish hours of script work a day. (around the same actual amount of hands on work time of the previous flow)  

(A side positive is the previous system was responsible for a large portion of delays. As there were times I didn't finish the first scene in time so 1/2 of the work I did wouldn't be available so I'd have to delay until it was done which will no longer be an issue as there won't be any skipping ahead)

Personal related stuff:

- Cyberpunk was cool
I've finished all of the content I care for and I enjoyed the game. I think more than anything else I just enjoyed playing a video game as I haven't done much of that lately. I didn't have time for them and after my best friend passed I didn't have much intrigue in playing anything as he was my gaming buddy but it's starting to return.
Next thing I'll be playing / finishing is A Hat in Time. I'm a big 3D platformer nerd. I also may try and get back into running SM64  

- Another uneventful week Last week I built a computer and this week I played Cyberpunk on that computer. Everything else was working on WVM. I'm quite ready for normal life to return as I miss going outside a whole fucking ton. 😎  

So, that's all for this post. I hope you're all doing well and thank you all so very much for supporting me and being a part of this community. <3   
(These won't be this long most of the time)


POLL: What do you feel the name of these weekly posts should be?