Chapter 4: Week 32 progress (Patreon)

Hey, Homies!

Long report.  Prepare yourselves!

I have some (hopefully) good news that many of you will likely be glad to hear.  Seeing my progress laid out in front of me like this has really made me start reflecting on how over-ambitious my project has been and I've been thinking a lot about what I can do to speed up development.  I've come to the conclusion that I need to start scaling back my aspirations and I've already started by trimming one of my more ambitious scenes.  As you can see above, it's chipped away a pretty significant chunk of development time.

Do You remember the scene I was talking about a few weeks ago?  That whole "I dOn'T sEe A LoT Of DeVs GiViNg tHiS MaNy OpTiOnS" B.S.??   Yeah...  That's because the smart devs know that having so many options takes a lot of time!  Far too much time for a single amateur developer working in his spare time!  So, unfortunately, one of the options has been cut from the scene.  

It's probably for the best since it was already a scene with both romance and non-romance routes, as well as the straight and trans routes, so it was starting to get pretty overwhelming. 13 of the completed animations are for this scene, and thankfully, after the last option was cut, I'm officially finished with the animations for that scene.  I might have another (approx.) 30-40 renders left and scene 4 will be done.

Anyways, I've learned from my mistakes and I'm scaling back!  I have several other scenes in mind with some incomplete sections that could be trimmed as well as one of the outros that might be scrapped or moved to another chapter, another scene might be cut in half if I can condense the vital story.  The plan isn't fully fleshed out yet but I'll continue to give more detail as things progress.

Sorry for another long report, but I wanted everyone to know the plan going forward.
Have another great week and keep an eye out for a poll later this week.  I enjoyed the idea from my last SFW post of giving you little glimpses into what's happening with the characters between chapters 3 and 4.  So be ready to choose who you want to get a little update from next.

Much love!
JB


Week 32 progress:
-857 renders
-27 animations
-15,187 lines coded