Incredibly, it's another weekly update!

Good grief! An age of miracles is upon us, no? ;)

Okay, so let's start with what I had to do last week - which was the Caverns and Creatures scene. Now a week might seem a bit long for this but this was one of those areas where I needed to invest some upfront time in coding the mechanics and getting my head around the gameplay balance not just for Chapter Two but  for the rest of H5 if you decide to keep playing it with Sarah.

The good news is it's done. I had a few glitches along the way mainly around getting the die rolls to work randomly enough (the first times I tried I either slaughtered everything in sight or got squished - with no middle ground) .Oh! Make no mistake, this is a full mini D&D light type game. Rooms to explore, baddies to squish, traps to avoid the whole ten yards - just on a smaller dunge...um...cavern type scale. I also had a few graphic glitches where I'd forgot I'd changed a baddie and thus the miniature in the images was wrong, but on the whole I'm happy with it. I am -still- tweaking it a bit as there are a few places where it plays less like a game and more like some comedy scenes with some combat in the middle but I'm going to sleep on it one more night and then push out to testers.

 It's a thousand lines of code, five animations and a total render count of close to 500 (inc ani renders). It's also rather fun and given that Sarah rolling the die in -that- top is animated... I think you guys will like it.  :)

But! I've also been a busy little bee on a few other things too. The lounge plays a key part in Chapter Two and I gave it a final polish. Although the bulk of the work was done in October I've just shuffled it around a bit. Made the bar bigger, played with the lighting a bit more and added a few dressy bits. For my own practicalities I also swapped out a few tables for some smaller ones to give me more posing room and possibilities.

Annnnd that's not all.

Although the Scarlet Pirate doesn't really pop up until Chapter Three she does get a mention (and a book cover) in Two. Now, I'll be honest. I was happy with what I'd done with these and no intention of remaking/refreshing them....until I started playing around.

God in heaven my old stuff was awful. I am sorry!

Anyhoo!

Her ship has been refreshed...

as has the lady herself...

I also filled in some blanks on her crew as her "books" contents are decided by Patreons so who knows where you guys will end up sending her....

Or indeed who else you'll decide will turn up...

Anyhoo! That's last week.

This week will be three key things.

Amending C and C in light of tester feedback, extending the script for Chapter Two and getting the long animations running for that chapter. 

Laters! And stay lucky. :)