Chasing Sunsets Ch6 Dev Update: Pulling It All Together

Tonight marks a milestone of development I refer to as "Asset Collapse."   Basically, the goal at this point is to combine the art, sound, dialogue, and choice matrix into a playable skeleton and flesh out what remains "until it's ready."

This is the phase where I build achievements, scene and photo gallery additions, and make any UI changes that make sense.

This phase is also about refining art and dialogue we may have already completed, and represents the milestone of the chapter where Kent and I see all the pieces coming together for the first time.

If you are not in our Discord, we hope you'll reconsider!   We have a great community of fans and Kentyrr and I are pretty active and love to hear feedback, theories, and speculation.

At the risk of jinxing us, our goal is to release before the end of September since I will be at a wedding in New York for the first week of October, and I would hate to see development slip past that.  As always, the caveat is "when it's ready."   I'd hate to release the night before I fly out and run into a game-breaking bug while 3000 miles from my development PC!

In any case, no news for us usually means good news - We haven't run into any major roadblocks or identified any risks that make us feel like we need to raise the red flag.

That doesn't mean we haven't had a close call or two:  One of my NVMe SSDs shat the bed on Sunday, and I lost a day to system recovery, but fortunately saw no impact to game files (which are backed up in triplicate anyway!)

Starting to feel that "release on the horizon" rush, and can't wait to show you all what we've been up to!

In the meantime, we've been curious about the dominant playthrough for some time.   We'd love to hear how you are tackling the story.