Hey all,
I wanted to jump on real quick and give a little update for episode 8 and also do a couple of introductions as well and update as to when we might be expecting the release of episode 8.
The Introductions:
I'd like to introduce you to a couple of people. The first being the lovely lady in the render, Roxy. I ran a poll on Patreon with names suggested there and here, and Roxy was the winner with 39% of the votes. For those interested, there will be a screenshot at the bottom of this post with the full results.
Second, I'd like to introduce you to Kingcrab. If you're in the Discord group, I'm sure you've seen him around, and the name won't be new to you, but he's been a patron for quite a while and has been somewhat of an unofficial proofreader for some time also. But we got to talking over the last couple of weeks about the lack of progress in the game, and after some back and forth, we were able to identify some issues that were causing the delays, the big one being my own laziness... but we won't talk about that :P Another is simply my lack of motivation to write; this is why I write mini games most of the time, to write something fresh to put me back in the mood for writing the cabin. But after talking for some time, we got onto the discussion of the possibility of him coming on as a writer. At this point, I had about half of the script done, maybe a little less, but he started off with the Roxy introduction scene, and after a couple of days, he came back with a finished story, and although his initial script was good, it needed to be tweaked a bit due to the formal nature he was writing at times. He tweaked it and got it just right. Then he worked on another scene ( 2nd to last ) and that one had far fewer issues. I think 95% of the issues were mostly code issues that I would be doing anyway, like incorrect code names for characters, etc. Then, he worked on the final scene, and let me tell you, it was perfect. Not a single issue, and the story was spot on. I feel like I rambled a little there; long story short, Kingcrab is joining the team as a writer. In theory, this should boost productivity and, in turn, make the release windows shorter. Not to mention, he's already made a start on episode 9 so while I'm chugging away at episode 8, he's going to do episode 9 and so on.
The Expected Release!
I've been working on a rather tricky scene recently, but the art for that is done, and I've made some good progress moving onto the next scene. Every scene from here on out isn't tricky and is pretty straightforward, so I expect nothing but progress in the coming weeks. That being said, you know I don't like giving expected release dates, but I want to try and have it out before the 27th of May. I think it'll be hard, but doable. The only reason I need to have it out by that date is because I'm going on holiday on the 28th and really don't want to worry about not working while I'm away.
