Saturday Update! (Patreon)

This week was pretty Intense x'D I've made a lot of progress and things are going well [ I think ] but I am absolutely fried.

Gonna have to do the Daily update thing again because it's too dense to summarize in a week.

MONDAY: Did a few hours of prep work and Steam stuff in the morning, then 8+ hours straight streaming art to replace for the Auction scene! It went great and I got all the art done! 

TUESDAY: Imported the art into the game to freshen up the Auction scene! This took a bit of fiddling to get the window flashes in the right spot, but nothing too difficult! Then I created a Splash page for the game [ the warnings page that comes up before the game starts ], a Pre-Splash image [ the logo that comes up while the game is loading ], and did a few little graphical/text touchups to prepare the game for steam [ I had to remove a couple links and the word 'Patreon' because they're fussy about referring to other companies ¬_¬ ]

WEDNESDAY: Ahh, the Hell day. I spent the entire day learning the Steamworks back end. Some of it was fairly straightforward and easy [ like creating promotional images with the right dimensions with logos and stuff I already have ] and some of it was mind numbingly difficult [ like downloading the Steamworks SDK, inserting my game content, and trying to run a bash command via Terminal, only to find out that it seems to just not work on mac, before ultimately giving up and using the website's 'not recommended' upload process ]. Yet another 10-12 hour workday x'D

THURSDAY: Just a few Steamworks developer end tweaks, but mostly working on the trailer video! Which means LEARNING EVEN MORE! I took a crash course in iMovie and slapped together some OBS recordings of the game. I admit it looks kind of amateur but video editing is not my forte and I am Trying My Best™ The important thing is that I made Something™ and I officially submitted the game and the store page for review!

FRIDAY: So here is where gears switch wildly and I am going to honestly admit that I basically did nothing all day x'D There's just... nothing left I can really do until the game gets approved. So I sat my ass down and watched Netflix all day to keep my mind off nervously waiting for approval ^^; Technically I could probably start some tasks on the Bonus Content but I really am rather fried and I think I needed a bit of an extra break.

And as it stands now I actually do have a small update for you guys! I failed one of my review processes already x'DDD DON'T WORRY IT'S NOT SERIOUS. 

It was the Store review, not the Game review- and the reason I failed it was because one of the 20-ish promotional images I uploaded didn't include the game's name. I just didn't realize that image had to include it [ must have missed something in the instructions, in my defence there was like pages and pages of shit to read ], so I re-uploaded a version of the image with the game's name. I can't actually re-submit my store review until they've finished my game review though so now I just play the waiting game. All in all, it will hold things up a tiny bit, like 2 days max, but I think it's okay. We're still ahead of schedule for now!

For now I'm still waiting for the Game Review results. I don't think I'll get them until Monday/Tuesday at the earliest because the website says Steam staff doesn't do that work on weekends [ fair, I mean neither do I LMAO ].

I have to admit, this is fairly nerve-wracking part of the process haha! It's weird to suddenly just have to wait after working and scrambling so hard.

I'm also a little nervous about the Beta process. I'm gonna have to juggle a lot of tasks and organize people and stuff >_>;; I spent a chunk of Thursday preparing the Discord for everyone to use and it kinda made me nervous for having to manage the Discord LMAO but it can't be helped. If I want Beta testing I have to suck it up.

Anyway, if I keep going on, all I'm gonna do is complain more and more about being nervous LMAO so I might as well cut it off here and spare you guys!

Thank you all so much for your patience with this process, and I'll be talking to you again very soon! Saturday at the latest but I assume I'm gonna have some Steam process news for you before then 👍