Posted January 04, 2025 by VictorSeven
#progress report
Christ. These last couple days were absolute hell. I dunno what the hell kind of stomach bug I got, but it ruined me for a few days. I now have empathy for fountains.
Ehem. Anyways, in spite of the stomach bug from hell, we still made fairly significant progress:
This is it. The home stretch. We are SO CLOSE to release. Since we're doing full episodes now, I've added a sort of unspoken final step, and that's a full episode playthrough/final experience bugtest. Once we've got these last couple of scenes in the bag and gotten that done, we'll package this and start the release cycle. I feel FAIRLY confident that we could get this out before Monday, but that's not accounting for Murphy. And 48 hours is a LOT of time for Murphy to mess with shit.
But aren't these updates coming out a little... fast? Last public release was (checks calendar) a week ago. Well, yeah. I wanted to see what it took to get us to a monthly update schedule. Suffice it to say, it was rough. Monthly updates probably aren't realistic or sustainable unless I start getting a lot more help, 'cause I really put myself through the ringer on this one and I'm not eager to repeat that experience. Though we DID prove it can be done. I'm considering bundling both of these kinds of patches into one, so that the patches take a little longer, sure, but they'd come with a full Main Story episode PLUS a batch of Side Scenes. I've been getting the feeling lately that AVN enjoyers by and large prefer larger updates, even if they take longer. My only worry is that taking too long tends to make people start dropping support on SubscribeStar and Patreon, and they don't always come back when a new update drops. Still, the support has been amazing lately, and we're close to really breaking the plateau we've been on for the last year or two. If this can become sustainable for us, that's less time at IRL jobs and more time working on various projects such as WCA, Goblin Roommates, and maybe even Necro's project, Red Velvet.
Anyways, enough of my blabbing. I'm still not 100% from the absolute hell I went through with this stomach bug, so I'mma go take a nap. Here's a nice little preview for everyone who's been asking for Kageshini since she first popped up in your bathroom mirror.
Aaaaaaand now I'mma go pass out for a couple of hours. Fingers crossed for us and getting this next episode done soon!
- Vic