I started a new job recently and, as such, I decided to get some help to turn the script from the writer into video game script. Things should go a bit faster now. I have the majority of the character sprites I'll be using made, so the game is fast approaching 4,000 unique images (mostly frames of animation). I should be more consistent with my work on the project, but given that it took approximately thirty years to build the Trevi Fountain and Mr. da Vinci took his sweet time with the Mona Lisa, I am sure you can appreciate the best things take time..

Not say my game will be that good of course. Plus, I am making the game I want to make, not the game anyone is telling me to make and I have stopped caring about making money from this project. If you happen happen to like my game then that's great. If you do not, just move on, because beauty is entirely subjective and nobody is forcing you to play a free game (donationware, I guess).

After the script from the writer for the entirety of Day One is implemented into the game (including all of my animations, standalone images and backgrounds), I will release an update. After which, I will want to commission a composer to make any missing music and/or sound effects. It is amazing how many good quality sound effects are either CC0 or in the Public Domain, so I have been making use of a bunch of sound effects I found on Free Sound.

Most pressing issue for me right now is to make the golf swing animations for the golfing activity. I keep finding other animations I need to make, which speaking of, I attach a sample. Initially, this was not going to be an animation but I saw how quickly the entire scene was rendering in iRay that I decided to make it one (the animation is split it two as it displayed behind several lines of text.

Shame itch.io does not accept WEBP files because GIFs are outdated since they cut down on the colours in an image and the file size is larger. Thus, I had to really shrink down my animation. It's a flashback that will feature if a certain option is chosen (and it will not loop in the game).

URL for image in the batter: