Progress 05.12.2022

Good Monday to all of you.

So, update 20 was sent to be tested and proofread. It ended up being 810 renders, with three new music pieces. Granted, I only added them, so you didn't need to listen to one song for half of the update. So that's that, and we move onwards to 21.

I started rendering it as I said on Friday, although I won't be showing a preview render of it, and you will understand why when you get the update 20 in your hands. 

As for writing, I'm where I need to be but not where I want to be. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish update 24's writing by the following Monday. But, regardless, I'm happy about its progress. Historical, I know.

 There is a lot of overlap in the assets between games from various makers. I'm certain this Viking village scene has been seen in other games, but I'm also certain that they have been a summer version of it (I forgot to render it, whops). A while back, I bought a tool that can create snow, for example, in any environment or probably on people. That I haven't tried as I have other tools for that. Essentially, the tool doubles the number of environmental assets I can use. It might be a bit heavy on VRAM on a large scale. This render took 22 GB out of the 24 I have available.

The problem when my imagination goes into overdrive is that possibilities grow exponentially. There are two characters in common in these two renders. Tomas (the MC of the next VN) and The Revenant. Well, at least that is what I call her right now. The big portion of the core group is set. It has been for a long time. And there are maybe two or three spots available. Now when I talk about core characters, I mean in the same way as it was in Sorcerer, a group of people that are integral to the story's progression. There will be others there to help the progress, but they aren't the focus as is. Will she be part of the core group? I don't know. The story possibilities she enables are intriguing, but who knows what else I can think of between now and then?

And then there is this, it's titled "Banshee Queen." I wanted to make the character. The render was mostly for fun.