Mochi Moshi Dev Log #37: Finalization Ahoy! (Patreon)

Mochi Moshi's script has been a work in progress for a little over two and a half years. That's an insane amount of time, but the pay off has been wonderful. With over 63k words (aprox) in the draft, we've been working hard on cleaning up grammar, adding emoticons and just polishing the gem that we've been writing. Progress on it has been fast, steady and a bit brutal for me personally.

Finalization 

So, since everyone probably had some level of education that follows this, you understand that when you write a long list of words your first pass is you drafting them into a document. After that you then reread it, rewrite parts, and/or have someone else do that. We're doing that with Mochi Moshi right now, and we've created a sort of schedule to make this task finished within 5 weeks. Since today is Monday, this is the start of the 3rd week out of 5. Current progress is fantastic!

Obviously this isn't the full screenshot of the document, but into week three we have almost 100% finished the Weight Gain path and the Lazy Transformation Paths. With this progress we'll have the entire script done by week five, and ready to work on assets for the script demo.

Burnout
I know I said something like this in a previous mini update, but I was working myself to the bone the first week of finalization, trying to get everything fixed and ready. I felt miserable to the point where it was effecting my art too. After about two days of taking a break, I reflected and found better ways to tackle the problems I was facing with how I was working. First and foremost, I love drawing more than anything. Drawing doesn't tire me out as long as I work for a handful of hours. Writing takes up so much brain power and I need to be in a specific space that crunching on this script, while super fun, makes me feel like I am overworking myself and brain dead. I'm thankful to have my co-writer with me on this. Don't worry about me, things are better than they were last week!

The Demo
No work on the demo has been done except which route we want to show off. Obviously all of my fans love weight gain more than anything, so it will be a WG leading route. Look forward to dumb little chibi Kazumi while I explain how the game will be presented.

Other
I want to explain a bit more with what we're doing in the finalization process but I'll save it for next time. While it'll be fun to show off the emoji and emoticon lists, it's better to save a lot of that as a further surprise for you all. Maybe I'll explain how Kazumi talks next month! I thought about writing a bit of a guide on "How to txt like Kazumi," for fun.

Thank you!
Thank you again for support on this project. It's been a wild ride, but fun through most of it. I hope you guys love Kazumi as much as we do and get to enjoy her bratty, brazen, cute personality! Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and have a happy leap year!