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EP1 is a pretty good representation of the kind of story that is to come. Romance has not been in any of the releases so far, but it will be be an obvious core component given this is an eroge, and there will be a lot of fight scenes, especially as the influence of the war grows. Fight scenes are kind of tricky given these are still images, and unlike a drawn comic I can't add motion lines to convey movement. So I end up using a lot of frames which takes a very long time to pose. For example, a simple motion like an up drill, raising the rifle, takes me about 10 min to pose. Doesn't help that since I'm limited to a laptop I can only use a trackpad.  

Ideally I want to have a lot of surreal horror aspects (not so much jumpscares in dark environments, but anxiety in well lit areas kind of feeling), however I have never written a story in my life, so as my first attempt I'll probably miss the mark in a lot of scenes, but hopefully it gets better as it progresses. I actually originally planned for CV to finish by the end of this year, but it's a much bigger project than I originally planned. Again, part of it is that I'm spending most of my time figuring things out before I can make content, so once I get a better handle on things, I'm expecting progress to speed up. I had to learn something new for every single release so far. I don't want to be spending a decade on this as I have a lot of other stories I want to make. Having the plot already written out was one of the best decisions I made, since the plot from a dev POV gets exponentially more complex and it would be very difficult to remember the character histories and write dialogue as I progress.  Even in these early scenes, there are details that are significant to later story events. Some of the characters are actually based on people I know, and based on things they witnessed IRL so I can't just wing it to fix plot holes.