Hello Boo!

It's NaNoWriMo which I love because it is an excuse to talk about writing and writing is what I do like all the time and am trying to sell you on. That and redheads.

Here is how terrible I'm doing.

What? That's Great! 

I finished my long list of art assets! Then I Edited a chunk of some 250 art assets. Also, it serves as a final quality check to see if I have to redo any images. Then I dumped them in the game and checked for errors before starting up the game and had a list of over 300 errors which mostly ended in "is not an image". 

Fixing the list of errors boils down to looking at the list, searching for the place on the script, then fixing typos. Failing that I look up the image in the folder and then fix the typo. If I can't find the image at all, I look at the wider heading of asset names to see if I messed something else and meant to name it something else in the script. 

Some rationalizing happens, "maybe if Grace looks to her left when she is supposed to be talking to the player, it will just but thought of as a character thing." In order to desperately stop myself from opening daz, I check for names in the raw render folder, which still exists because I am a terrible hoarder and person. Usually, double-checking in the render file also serves as finding a good scene to use to adjust for the needed asset though, and I have rendered plenty of missing assets. I'm tempted to say over thirty.

There are also errors that result from backgrounds I haven't finalized yet. Most of the backgrounds I made when I was rendering stuff and decided to do later to make sure they look similar. They don't and I fail to have a macro view of things but that is what I told myself.

What does this mean for the game?

At every step of this process, I figured I had about a month of work left and that has never been the case. As soon as I dumped all of the assets into the game files, I made a package for alpha testers. Which, they might be privy to playing an inferior version because they just have not given me feedback, yet. *pouts*

I'm writing this devlog ahead of time because I have some time and I am cramming in word counts for nano. (yes, this is in my nano doc. I'm a cheater and it makes me feel good.) I hope to have the remaining errors parsed by the time this is posted and to playtest it myself. By the end of the month, I hope it is ready for beta testers and then for patrons. Then a few days after patrons have it, I'll post the final chapter for sale!

And according to the supporter poll, between a week and two weeks, a free version will appear for download on my discord.

Today* Today

Okay. That's the big paths playtested and mostly fixed. 

*I still need to place some repeat images 

I'm going to do the Patreon/update posts (This! Meta.), then my house chores (TMI).

This afternoon I'll place music and maybe get the text boxes and fonts changed.

Then, I'll package another alpha version for testers.

NaNoWriMo

It is National Novel Writing Month. The fun times many writers use as an excuse to just ignore their friends and families and write more. My writing time has gone into finishing my epic urban fantasy novel. And whatever I think I can write next. My first instinct was to finish writing it before nano but, as we have established, I always assume I am almost done with a project, like a smart adult writer person.

It is a lot of fun. There are packs of writers everywhere and there is a good chance writers near you are gathering to meet and support each other right now. I like it a lot and I love meeting other writers. Given, half the month is over but about 3.2k words a day and you can probably finish 50k words, which is the official goal. The actual goal of the month is to write a bunch, have fun, and give people excuses to write.

My Perfect Day
*when I wrote this

Today was a great day. I came up with a DEFCON list of devs working on their games and I am at Defcon 2 which is taking extra days off of the day job to work. Boy, I wish every day was like this. I work up at seven and then dove into the corrections by flipping between windows, editing assets, and posing new ones. Then at noon, I was sick of it and I just stopped. I set the render queue to roll. I went to a park and walked around playing pokemon go. It's like 78* today. I went out for a burger and free caffeine refills and I write this.

And it is great. I wish every day was like this. It reminds me that I need to reshoot a Patreon video. My current one is outdated and doesn't mention AVN writing at all. With your support, I can do this every day. I'm much more productive when I am rested and happy. Sad time work drags. I appreciate everyone who has supported me in the past or purchased my games now, in the past, and optimistically in the future. No matter the amount you could spare, I appreciate it and thank you for reading (or the reading adjacent activities. Am I thanking people for masturbating?)

I have special renders posted on the third Wednesday of every month for all 18+ tiers. See the full sets on Patreon!                   See the full sets on Subscribestar!

While you can see updates and get your name in the credits, I will not be distributing games from Patreon. Games are distributed from Itch and links on discord.

Tiers!

$18 (Everyone is)Eighteen  -Bonus 4k render -render request

$10 Purring Kittie rewards -Bonus 4k render -render suggestion -Access to the Games As soon as it is out of beta -weighted vote

$3 basey rewards  -Monthly unique photo sets not in any games   -behind-the-scenes details  -credited (if you want)

Looky-Lew(d)s FREE

Your attention is worth more than money can buy. News, Previews, and hanging out.

Everyone is welcome to the discord! LINKU The more, the numerous, as they say. Feel free to join and be sure to ask for adult content access in the request channel, after you read the boring rules that you'll forget.

Thank you, everyone,

Ray