Progress 06.01.2023

Wow, I have an odd feeling. Normally the timing of the writing "break" happens during the weekend. This time it was midweek. Not that it actually hindered anything.

So. Update 22 is still being proofread. Adry is MIA since I haven't heard from him since I sent the test build and script. But have to see how it goes overall. It isn't like it's the first time I've published something without proofreading, either.

I've started rendering update 23, it's going fine. However, there are a few more complex scenes, both building, and rendering-wise, so I have to see how it goes. I'm not expecting problems as I did a prototype of the area month ago.

Writing, on the other hand, is progressing. I'm writing update 27. I found a sweet spot regarding my creativity right between 02:00 (2 AM) and 06:00 (6 AM), so I got update 26 done with couple extra pages, but it needed them.

So this is kind of a mild spoiler, but kind of not. It just shows that the Wraith is meeting someone from previous days who should have been gone but is still around. But why shall remain a mystery!

And then there is this. This is kind of today's "daily motivational render" for me. I said it in August. My mind never rests. So I'm always thinking of things, stories, events, things like that. Partially it's the reason I'm writing so far ahead, simply because I have the "material" for it. This particular render resulted from one of the previous progress posts and the short discussion about the "failure" states. It got me thinking of the next VN's MC's youth. And then the thought became how to expose it to you guys and gals. Flashbacks would be an obvious choice, but too many of them and the storytelling of the VN might suffer since not everything from the past is relevant to the present. There is no solution for that at the moment outside of random renders that I might do. Also it's argument about cutting trees, notice the axe on the stone...

And then there is this, it's not technically the young MC anymore, mostly because I forgot to make him young. No idea why though. This just popped into my head while I was building one of the sets I needed for TRS2, so I quickly put it together and rendered it while building the set. I have no clue whether this is a true scenario of what happened to the MC in the past. Still, I finally got this particular underwater set tested out.