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Sup, bros! In this post you will not only find your usual silly jokes and family friendly pictures, but I also will be discussing some actual work-related stuff regarding the next Episode of SC34. Yay to that. Also my previous post went live 12 hours earlier than it was supposed to because I confused a.m. with p.m. Don't worry though, I will double-check this post's settings, to make sure it goes live on Monday at exactly 15:00 as usual.

April's Fool. By the providence of gods this post will go live on April the 1st. I toyed with an idea of acknowledging that by titling it "Star Channel Episode 05 release delayed till September 2020" or something. But decided against it. Personally I hate all those April 1st jokes, they are never funny and on several occasions I actually took the things people share on this day seriously and it lead to only more disappointment. To heck with April's Fool Day I say.

The work. So, it's been 17 weeks since Episode 04 but who is counting? Let me just jump right into the good news instead. First of all, several days ago I sent Lyk the second half of the Ep.05 script. And he already finished proofreading it. Oh, by the way, when Lyk makes a posts saying "I just got a 1.000.000 lines of text from Akabur" and some of you jump to wrong conclusions, let me explain something: I always send Lyk the actual game script. Not just the story but the in-game code containing the story. Which means that a lot of those "lines of text" is not the story itself but the game code. Also let us all, yet again, mentally thank Lyk for being a damn hero, since he always experiencing my games by going through the code alone - no pics, no music, just lines of code. Thank you for you sacrifice, Lyk.

The Work 02. I am working on (adding, not composing) the music and occasional sound effects. That is usually the final stage of work^^ I also want to let you know that I am changing the way "Holo-Archive" works. Now all the events and quests will be organized by episodes. That should make accessing the already seen events a bit less confusing. It also allowed me to get rid of two extra buttons in every room because now Holo-Archive will only be accessible from Genie's room. And there will be only one button.

The Work 03. I also commissioned an updated version of the main menu background. The old one was created by me. The new one looks very similar but is way more detailed. This is not something that was absolutely necessary or anything, just a little quality of life change^^

The Work 04. One more important thing to note: please don't assume that Episode 05 will be ready for release next week or anything like that. I still have a sizable chunk of work ahead of me. But it's mostly polishing and bug-testing (and the sound of course) so I am not stressed out anymore, since all the creative stuff has been done already.

The Work 05. Oh, and also there is a "Costumes: Story/Custom" button in the Hollo-Archive now, which gives you full control over the characters outfits during the replays (even if it doesn't make sense story-wise). This settings will affect Episode 05 and all the future episodes.

The Work 06. Also since we have CGs in the game now a proper gallery for the unlocked ones is necessary.

The Work 07. Also every episode will now start with this fancy tablet.The Work 07. We shall talk in length about the fact that this Episode took me much longer to develop than I hoped, but let's do it after the release... -_-

No Photos. Also since I did share some actual work related news this time, how about we skip on the scans and PSDs and stuff. Just this once :)

Borderlands 3 trailer looks dope as heck. 0_0

The Gif. And I know that some of you are here only for the gifs, so here is your weekly fix.