Developer's Journal #14 (Patreon)

Hey everybody.  My target release dates remain October 10th (Biggest Supporters) and 12th (Supporters and Bigger Supporters).  I rendered two smaller scenes this week and I'm finishing up a third.  I also spent a lot of time this week poring over the renders and coding I've already finished to spot either little mistakes or things that weren't quite perfect, so at this point what I have looks pretty clean.  It's just a matter of powering through the remaining renders.  I will be off from my job all of next week to focus on getting this ready by the 10th and will be burning the candle at both ends to make sure I hit that target.  My job thinks I'm taking my first vacation since 2018.  If they only knew...

I'm stuck in another (mercifully short this time) scene where the renders are just taking forever.  So today I played through the entire update (minus the forthcoming renders).  It's definitely going to be longer than the Demo.  Officially, the Demo was 45 minutes, but that's dev speed.  Several people told me they played it for over an hour.  Playing the update straight through without going back to do alternate branching will probably be getting close to double the length of the demo.

Okay, I'll be back next Saturday with another update.  Thank you for your continuing support!

--Monk