Progress Report (Patreon)

Okay! Time for a progress report! 

Left Hand Magic

First and foremost, for those that didn't bother to look, the final result of the Focus Poll was a 60/40 split. With the winner being "Fix the Early Game Content." I admit, I'm very mildly disappointed by that result. Not because I have a problem with it (I would never have made it an option if I did), but simply because it's likely to push back the final release of the game into next year. I was really hoping to finish Left Hand Magic in late 2023. But the needs of adding on more content to the early game virtually guarantee that won't be possible. Still, as I said already, if I wasn't okay with it, I wouldn't have made it an option. It's always been my policy to make the best game I can, with my supporters opinions on what makes for the best result taken as far into account as possible. 

That's honestly the only big news for Left Hand Magic, as things are on pace with where I said they'd be in the last progress report. There are just two still renders left for the last of Trix's Weekday content for Week 4, one of which is running as I type. Those will be wrapped up by time I crash, and later today I'll shift gears to adding some of the aforementioned Early Game Content that won the poll. I'm certain that I should be able to get at least two of those scenes into the build. I'm hopeful that I'll actually get three in. Though I expect three will likely be the limit if I don't want to run a major risk of overrunning for another month. The two I'm certain I'll be doing are for Arianna and Talia. I'm still in need to putting some thought into Revina and Trix. Less because I don't have ideas, and more that I need to sit down and actually figure out what is needed in order to make their content make sense. Once I sort that out, coming up with a few viable options should be fairly straightforward.

Short Story

Alyia's Magic Shop is almost done. I have 3,500 words already and will we wrapping it up with another 1-1.5k before I crash, unless something else comes up. That will mean I can edit it later today and either go ahead and post it, or hold off and post it Monday. Most likely the later, since this progress report is technically being done on Sunday, if super early in the morning. Either way, it should be finished and up soon, and I'm reasonably happy with it.

Mixed Media Short

I've finished 14/16 planned renders. It's always possible I'll add one or two more...but I honestly kinda doubt it this time? The renders I planned out did a good job of telling the epilogue-of-sorts that I wanted to make this into. I almost feel it's too short...but at the same time, I think adding more renders just to have more renders wouldn't do the story any good. And I also don't think it will come up shy in word count, so I'm probably just being silly. 

Regardless, I should be able to sort out the last two renders later today. Which will let me get started on the writing for it on Monday. That rarely takes more than a day or two, plus one for editing, so...expect it somewhere around the 23rd, I'd guess? Give or take a day or so.