Progress Report (Patreon)

Alright everyone, last progress report of the month, unless I need to stick up a quick delay notice on the 29th. As for how likely that is...I'm not entirely sure. If there is a delay, it will probably only be a single day (ish). If this were literally any other month, I'd be confident of finishing on time. With it being February, even a leap year February, I'm considerably less so. It'll be tight, and right now I'd call it 50/50 if I manage to hit the midnight of the 29th deadline. But, as I said, if I miss that deadline it shouldn't be by more than a dayish. With the usual caveat of 'unless something goes horribly wrong.' 

As for where I am right now, I'm taking a short break from doing the programming step. I'm anticipating having the programming 95% done by the time I crash in a few hours. That means that all the renders/animations are done and post-processed too, of course. Once the programming is done, I'll need to do the writing, editing pass, testing, and gallery. Writing is going to take two days, minimum. It always does. If I can get the writing done in those two days, then the editing pass and testing squeezed in on another, that would leave me with just the gallery to do on the evening of the 29th.

Unfortunately, the gallery in and of itself takes a couple of hours. Then there's the distribution builds, image conversion (PNG to Webm for compression), and upload process. Frankly, it will be very tight if I get it done. I think it's a lot more likely that we're looking at either an very early AM release on the first, or a late night/early morning release on the 1st/2nd. Unless something out-of-context goes wrong (like getting sick or something), I can't see it taking longer than early morning on the 2nd at the absolute latest. And, again, even that's basically only because February is a day short even in a leap year...