Chasing Sunsets Epilogue Progress Note

Your nose doesn't deceive you, dinner is almost ready! I just wanted to take a few minutes and update you all on the final chapter.

I lost the first two weeks of June due to a motherboard failure. I came home from my kid's wedding and found my PC shut down with the dreaded "--" POST error code.

I quickly sourced a new motherboard and CPU (dumped Intel and went back to AMD) and installed new GPUs while I was at it.

In any case, this involved new water blocks, and other components that had my dev rig down about a week longer than I hoped.

I've been back up and running since Friday the 13th, and plugging away at refining the epilogue's codebase.

The chapter is currently playable from beginning to end at this point, minus sound and feature integration.

That said, during play, I became dissatisfied with the feel of one ending for a (major) path. Kent and I talked, and we're adding a scene that will go a long way toward addressing that shortfall.

I'd have even be tempted to let this one ride if it wasn't one of the three most common player endings, but since it was, here we are.

Kent is furiously working on the expanded artwork now, and I'll get it forked into the alpha build as soon as its ready.

Any new scene adds a few days generally, so there will necessarily be a short delay, but we're talking days, not weeks.

With luck, we'll have a beta packaged up this weekend and in tester's hands, with general deployment usually a few days later.

The caveat is that there's always a chance our testing team will find something that doesn't feel right or even find a broken branch. While this isn't common, we would be remiss if we didn't acknowledge the possibility.

I promise to post another update ASAP if there are any more surprises.

We're very close now to putting the cherry on this, and can't wait to ship it off to all of you to enjoy!