Greetings everyone! For those of you in the USA, I hope you had an excellent Labor Day. For those outside the USA, I hope you had a terrific regular day!
First, let me say THANK YOU! I'm so glad that so many of you enjoyed Between Two Worlds. It's a story I've wanted to tell for a long time, and finally being able to share that story with so many people is incredible. This has been such an incredible journey, and there is still so much more to come!
Let's get on to the core purpose of this post. Even though it's only been a couple weeks since Chapter 5 was released, I've been hard at work making Chapter 6. No rest for the weary, right? Gotta keep up that smaller dev cycle! It's still fairly early in the process, but Chapter 6 is already shaping up to be even larger than 5 was. I'm only about a third of the way done with writing, and the script is already ~50 pages long. To compare, C5 was 106 pages. I'm crazy, I know.
So, how about some hard numbers then? Well, here is the current status of Chapter 6:
Creative Design: 33%
Environment Design: 21%
Writing: 37%
Rendering: 0%
Animation: 6%
Code: 0%
If you're interested in following development, I use Trello to keep track of it. You can find my Trello board here.
I've started rendering scene 1, so that number will begin rising in the next couple days. I'm also going to start the process of looking for an artist to join me. The posing and rendering is absolutely the most time consuming part of this process, and as the game moves forward, this gets bigger and bigger. Especially with the branching paths.
Right now, I'm targeting early November for Chapter 6. That would be a roughly 12 week cycle, which as you all know is quite quick! In addition, I've started working on a Christmas special! I expect it to be smaller (in comparison to standard updates), maybe 15-20 minutes of content. But it'll be fun :)
Thanks for checking out this update, and I look forward to more content in the near future!
-Drooskati Games
