Mochi Moshi Dev Log #18: Hitting a Stride (Patreon)

Clarification from previous development log.

I think leading off with this sort of "bad news" first is the only way to kind of elevate the good news. I miss counted the route documents I had written and calculated about 6 full routes being done last month. Unfortunately I miscounted two routes as being done that weren't done, and as of writing this down those were finished and not we're at the proper percentage of progress. How did this happen? Some things weren't marked in the development index and were just taken as note of being finished. This was completely my fault and to make it up to you I'll list everything that was finished and is finished.

What was done this month?

This is where the good news comes in. I finished 5 nodes this month flawlessly and my co-writer reported a completion of a route herself, which means that the grand total of recorded finished routes does total up to 6 now. Twenty one story nodes have been completely finished out of the 65 total, bringing up our progress to 32% completion.

Ok but really, what have you finished?

As promised, I'll list every single story node that has been finished to be very transparent with you. This means more numbers.

All four starting branches have been finished. This means Weight Gain, Lazy Transformation, Breast Expansion and Ass Expansion all have their start completely finished.

In the weight gain path, the breast expansion sub-route is fully finished. This subroute consists of 5 nodes itself making the weight gain path have 6 nodes finished. If you don't know what a node is at this point please read up on the other dev logs. But for a quick reminder a node is an in-game story week that dictates a branch when a major decision happened.

In the breast expansion path, the ass expansion sub-route has it's weight gain sub-route finished, with the lazy transformation sub-route only on week three. This means that only 4 of the nodes are finished in the sub-route and a total of 5 are done in this path.

In the ass expansion path, the breast expansion sub-route is fully finished. Meaning that there have been 6 nodes completed here.

In the lazy transformation path, the weight gain sub-route is half finished. The Ass expansion sub-sub-route is finalized with the breast expansion sub-sub-route in a current work in progress. This means that there's only 4 nodes completed here.

With a total of 64 nodes among the 4 major paths, as well as an introduction to the story, that makes for a total of 65 nodes. A total of 21 nodes are finished out of those 65, meaning 32%.

I'm going to be more open with the actual nitty gritty progress of this project going forward, hoping to continue heavy progress as the year reaches winter. I can promise you a progress report every month that will most likely deliver 4 to 8 nodes, instead of 5-10. Nodes take about an hour to two hours to write, taking away from drawing time, and require intense concentration. Something an environment I currently live in doesn't provide. Despite all this I try my best to continue on this incredible project with love. Every time I sit down and actually write I get lost in these characters I've built, and I can't wait for you to as well.

Fun bonus number: There has been approximately 16400~ words written for Mochi Moshi's story so far. This doesn't include any documentation you won't see, and produces about an average of 780~ words per week.

Going Forward

As stated in the previous huge blocks of text. I want to shoot for about four to eight finished story nodes by the time the month is over. Every report is going to now state what nodes in particular have been worked on and finished, as well as what to aim for next. September is going to see me finishing the BE AE Lazy route, as well as start a new branch and finish at least one, or two, of the full routes in that branch. What it is I'll be working on I'm not sure yet, but you'll know at least when I get there. 

I apologize for not being as transparent before and figured that you wouldn't want to hear really weird specifics using personal development language that might be confusing. But I know now that it's interesting to hear what's going on, and that's what some of you are paying for. Thank you for sticking with me and understanding.

Thank you!

And again that you so much for continuing to support me on this project. This month marked the one year anniversary of the project's conception and funding goals. Those got met way before I could even have imagined making this a project that practically grew 4 times in size. I wish I could have done something big for the one year anniversary, I have a lot of things in mind for that, but I feel like I should dedicate that time to just working on it. I think that produced a better result than some sort of celebration. Maybe this time next year we could have some sort of silly retrospective on this period of development and an actual celebration. But for now, I can't think about what we should do later but what I should do now to keep this going.

Thank you so much again hahaha. Every single one of you that chose to support me in this way helps more than you could imagine. I had a very rough bout earlier this month thinking about what I should do with my art and all of this in general but at the end of the day the fact that you guys care about this dumb blonde fox girl whose body changes so frequently in this silly little game. That makes me genuinely feel like I know what to do. So no matter what, I'm going to keep working of it.

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