Season’s greetings to you all!
Dropping in with a little progress update on Episode 2.
Before I start this, I have to say my apologies for not pushing one of these out earlier. I said I’d do better with Steam progress updates, and I’ve left it a little too long. New year’s resolution – at least monthly!
Onto the progress update:
I’ve almost rendered the whole of the main story (excluding the courtroom – honestly, because it’s so resource heavy and tough to work on with so many characters in one scene!). This is a real milestone because essentially, I’ve almost got Episode 2 to an end-to-end playable state, barring a few scenes.
So, what’s left to do? I still need to render the court room scenes (as mentioned above), then create the remaining animations, add sound, add RS points, some GUI bits and pieces, testing and then we’re pretty much there.
I’m aiming for a Q1 release, and I think that’s entirely do-able. I’ve a lot of time booked off as holiday from my day job over the festive period, so hoping to get a good chunk done then, and I’ll have a fresh set of holiday ready to use in the new year, of which a few weeks will be going straight into Jury.
I really appreciate your patience. I know it’s frustrating. I’ve been on the other end of waiting for the next episode also, but hopefully it’s going to be worth it for everyone involved. It seems like every scene I do ends up being my favourite, which I’m taking myself as the scenes get better and better!
I’ve created some simple but festive backgrounds for you all. I’m certainly no whizz at making things like this, but hopefully you’ll enjoy seeing some of your favourite characters dressed up!
(edit: Just realised you can't download the wallpapers on steam. Feel free to join the discord if you want them. They are all in there https://discord.gg/zm3vEg6G)
I’ll check in with you all again later in December!
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I guess I’ll show some sneak peeks too while I’m here…
