Dev Update (Patreon)

Hi All,

Just wanted to drop you an update on Episode 22 progress.  At the moment, I don't have high confidence we'll get the update out by the end of February based on the amount of work we still need to complete, especially as I always seem to under-call how long the testing phase takes.   So although we're still gonna scramble as much as we can, there is a likelihood that the release will push to sometime in March so I'd rather tell you now (before end of this month), rather than tell you a couple of days before we're due to release.

We're having some bottle-necks in our art department as our primary artist, Cell is moving house this month so we're a little behind.  We also had a couple of set-backs where we've had to re-do complete scenes (as we just didn't like the lighting in the finished product).  But Cell works like a man possessed (16 hours a day) and he has produced an insane amount of still images considering what's going on but my main concern is in animations where we haven't made much progress.  Cell is doing the work of two people at the moment and we are struggling to find a second artist with the right skill level and speed to deliver what we need.  For anyone that knows anything about DAZ animations, they'll know it can take a couple of days (or more) to produce a single 2-3 second animation.

And just so I'm not throwing shade on our art only, we're also behind on where I'd like to be from a writing/coding perspective but I think with 3 writers on the team, we should be good to catch this up over the next few weeks.

But this isn't one of those..."All is lost" / "we're months behind" posts...At the moment, we are only like 1-2 weeks behind schedule and there is still a few weeks left for us to try to get back on schedule.  But as mentioned above, I'd rather let you all know early.

And to summarise this update, I thought I'd use a couple of teaser pics from EP22:

Note - these pics aren't finalized so there will be a couple of errors in there,

Even though we have put a lot of effort into EP22 and have been working hard...

And the whole team have rolled up their sleeves and have their eyes on the prize....

Not everything has gone to plan and we've had some unexpected mishaps  (no matter how hard we were working)

But with some continued focus....

Things will be looking up soon....

Thanks,

CG