What a busy week this was!
The anniversary trip to DC went wonderfully! The gift for 10 years is apparently tin/aluminum (according to afterlights, at least), so Morgana and I made sure to buy each other cans of soda while we were down there. That counts, right? There’s a lot more about the trip I could talk about, but let’s talk about Mythos instead. I think that may be why you’re here.
I got back to work on Mythos the day we got back to Baltimore! I ran through the first scene (that massive one) with the images in place and… realized that I needed to do a few re-renders. That’s not unusual at all, of course, but this scene is so big with so many characters that each render takes way longer than a “normal” scene. Thankfully, I got those knocked out and I’m already working on rendering the next scene. I only have two scenes left to write for this chapter, and they’ll be easy (one may be pushed to Chapter Five, depending on what the beta readers think).
I’ve decided to not release the “non-adult” version of Mythos until Book One is complete. It’ll be far easier for me to finish the game and then rip out the little adult bits than it will be for me to basically be making two versions of the game at the same time (technically four because of how I gotta make a smaller version for Android).
I’m also not sure if I’m going to bother with the musical revamp; right now I’m of the mindset of “it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I’ve seen far too many devs fall into the trap of re-doing things that have already been done, which delays the game moving forward. Any new tracks I make for Book One will be done using the “new” ogg method, but going through and replacing every instance of music in the code is just… not something I wanna deal with, honestly. Sure, it’s just a Ctrl+F for any mp3 file, but there’s just so much code to wade through.
So all this means that it’s just less that needs to be done before I get this Chapter out to y’all!
I’m not sure how some of you will feel about it, but since Chapter Four is going to be just half of what I’d originally planned, it won’t be ending with a big shocker like the previous three. Some people hated the cliffhangers, but some really stayed invested based on those. Please forgive me! I’ll still leave something at the end for you to chew on while you wait for Chapter Five!
Chapter Four Scenes Completed:
- It’s Always Sunny in Baltimore (Again!)
Chapter Four Scenes to be Done:
- Born in a Barn
- Writing: Complete!
- Law and Mordor
- Writing: Complete!
- Rendering: In progress…
- For Here or To Go?
- Writing: Complete!
- High School Never Ends
- Writing: Complete!
- It’s LeviOsa, Not LeviosA!
- Writing: In Progress.
- Fairy Tail
- Things That Go Bump in the Night
Other Things:
- Version 3.11 Streamable (On Hold)
- Music Track Revamping (Maybe Hold)
- Reshooting Some Side Images (Complete!)
- Chapter Four Achievements (0/2)
- Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That (Tara Render)
- Glutton for Punishment (B Render)
- Hours in the Ball Pit (0)
Keep the Legends Alive!
– Nine ♥