The holidays approach. Yay. This is always a stressful time of year for me, because I am absolutely the worst at:
- Knowing what gifts to give people
- Knowing what I want when people ask me for gift ideas
- Being around people
- Enjoying my family’s company
Combined with the launch of Endwalker next week, I’m gonna be a real frazzled dev.
But progress on Mythos will not stop, despite FFXIV’s massive update! As someone pointed out to me, doing nothing but working on Mythos (when I’m not working at my day job) is probably not ideal for the game (or my mental health), so I’m making sure to set aside some time for me to be me. This won’t really slow things down at all, because there’s definitely been nights when I get so burned out on coding or renders or music that I’ll stare blankly and scroll through memes for two hours. I’ll just be using those two hours to fight Ascians, instead.
And hopefully kill Zenos for good; God do I hate that character.
But, as usual, I digress! This week I realized that I had left out a… pretty important scene from the Chapter Three flowchart (“Yeah, About That…”). Luckily, it’s still early enough in the development that I didn’t have to change anything I’d already coded. Even more luckily, I managed to write and render the entire thing this week, so it never even hit the “Stuff in progress” section and went right into “Stuff completed”. This weekend I intend to go hard as fuck to finish “Shantay, You Stay” and “It Goes to 11”.
I’m really, really regretting those percentage indicators now. The progress looks excruciatingly slow. It’s the same pace I went at before, but seeing it in numbers makes it feel absolutely glacial.
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Story
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Coding
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Renders
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Music
Stuff completed:
- Complete Side Image Revamp (135 images)
- Story Flow Chart
- Scene: Apologies to the Serling Estate
- Scene: A Little Help from my Friends
- Scene: Yeah, About That…
Stuff in progress:
- Creation of a few more characters (1/?)
- Scene: Shantay, You Stay (Writing)
- Scene: It Goes to 11 (Writing)
Stuff to do:
- Scene: Ah, My Goddess!
- Scene: Touched by an Angel
- Scene: Fuck the Police
- Scene: Ventrilo Harassment
- Scene: It’s Been Revoked
- Scene: Who Ya Gonna Call?
- Scene: Cry Little Sister (Was writing, but scrapped what I had)
- Scene: Fancy
- Scene: The Lyin’ Bitch and her Wardrobe
- Scene: My Immortal
- Scene: Magic, the Gathering
- Scene: Grumpy Old Men
- Scene: Werther’s Original
- Sex Animations (0/8 – if I do them?)
- New Music Tracks (1/7, maybe?)
- Chapter Three Title Screen (yay, more work for Morgi)
- Freak Out About Christmas Gifts (0/∞)
Keep the Legends Alive!
– Nine