Road to Alpha 1! (Blog #1)

Hey guys, I figured I'd start making some blog posts about the update as I work to finish it this month. I plan on putting out a new blog every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, until the update is out. It is going to be kinda off the cuff and not professional, but I think it's time to start revving up the motors on the update and also clue you guys in on where I'm at and what's going on.

The tentative deadline for this update is June 21st, since I am leaving for a week after that point it makes sense to me for that to be the date. I don't have a good history with deadlines though, so I won't be saying for sure that's the release date... yet. I think a week before that point I'll be able to say for certain. There's still quite a bit of work to do, but a lot has happened recently.

Towards the midpoint of last month, I realized I was putting a lot of flashy and exciting features into the gameplay sections of the game. I spent the remainder of May working on brand new ideas to spice up and glorify the story parts of the game. I don't really want to spoil what I came up with, but it's looking amazing and is about done. While it is cutting it close adding such a massive feature so late in the development cycle I think it was really worth it, and it will probably be some of the most memorable parts of the game.

Coming off the heels of this, pretty much the name of the game is finishing up what I had before I went sicko mode with new ideas. Today, I will be finally finishing Futaba's 5th weight gain render (she is ludicrously fat) and also getting her expression animations down. Monday and Tuesday I plan on doing some more social event related visuals, such as more of Chihaya's chickens, and also another character render for one of the girl's stories. I'll update you guys on Wednesday with how that's all come along!

For the rest of the build, there is a lot of assembly still required. SO many assets and features are either not implemented yet or are like 90% implemented... and both need to be 100%. While this will go pretty quickly in comparison to making new stuff entirely, It's pretty hard to judge when the right time to do this will be. Especially with things like sound effects where it can get pretty exhausting to trial over and over again, I don't know if I should start assembling everything and making it all tidy and player-ready before I finish with all the other aspects of the build. It might be wise to save it for last, but it might also be putting too much in the queue for the final stretch. Idk kinda thinking out loud here lol

There is also some more writing I have to do for the build, I'm going to be rewriting good portions of Haru's story and revising Ann's story a little bit. I also have to edit each story to include the awesome new hotness I mentioned earlier in this blogpost... blegh. Futaba's story also is incomplete... scary! Luckily I found a good method for writing last month, and I think either later this week or next week will be entirely dedicated to writing. One of the benefits of this being my job (and it also being fun as hell!) is that I can kinda push myself to do bullshit hours and be very productive when the time comes... lol

Ok anyways thats my first blog and kinda where everything is at!! As the blogs go on I'll give updates about each of these aspects and talk about whats been worked on and maybe I'll even start sharing new snippets of the build in here. Once again, I plan on putting out a new blog every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday until the update is out, which is hopefully June 21st or sooner. Sorry for the inactivity on the page, but I swear up and down left and right that Fatsona will be cool enough to be worth it. Thank you guys for all the support, It means so much to me. -Metrack