Corporate Development Memo 12/1/2024

Ok keeping this one short to get right back to work, want to do a LOT tonight!

I am on the final dom scene now and have prepped/set it up and I hope to finish ALL content (a rough draft by the next weekly update). I am about 4-5 days behind where I hoped to be, but about 4-5 days ahead of where I feared so I'll take it.

I had to do some "double up" renders this week which means I have numerous shots on "screens" they watch where the characters have to watch a screen showing action so I have to render two images for each normal shot that shows the characters in game and something on the screen too. It's a little bit time consuming but I like doing this for certain scenes. You can see one of those images on the shot where Dominique is handing Kane a new tool to try.

When I finish all rough draft content, I will do an announcement and at that time, I will formally try and guess a release date for everything (Test Version, Final Version). Once I do that, I tend to be within a week no matter what -- absent some truly compelling issue I discover during testing. I have already started editing the sub path so I'm a little ahead of the game on this process.

So hopefully my next weekly update will have an estimate for a release. I am very very close -- definitely almost at 100% content (writing/renders) so getting there!

I appreciate the patience, I know my updates take too long and I will remedy that next time with a much shorter cycle and a smaller part...this is getting a bit much even for me to juggle.

I hope those that celebrated had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I did take about 1.5 days off to do stuff with family/friends/staff and it was a great little mental break!

I don't have my render counts in front of me, but basically the dom path has been updated from I think it was 1,647 to roughly 1,770 or so. If I manage this last scene this week, (I think it will be over 100 renders) the final dom path counts should be between 1,850 and 1,900 renders. I will also go over what I will add from the Test ---> Final version of the game because I do want a little feedback on a few things before deciding what to add for that version.

Most likely, it will be 1 more sub scene and 2 more dom scenes.

Sub path editing is pretty good right now -- I've already made some branching changes and am now at the "render correction" phase where I note terrible renders I need to redo for the game. (the percentage of this traditionally has been about 5 percent of renders, I redo about 5 out of 100 renders) I don't correct EVERY single little tiny error because it's not feasible but I look for the worst offenders.

Please have a great week all, it's getting close!

Love,

Tess