27/05/2023 Patreon Devlog (GS)

Hiiiii! ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ Time for the GS devlog for this week.

This Week's Summary:

• Finished the draft for Yuu!
• Edited up to Ch 5

The Ramble:

Hiii.

Okay somewhat short ramble this week:

I finished the draft. The drafting for Gilded Shadows is DONE. COMPLETE. FINISHED. ╰(*°▽°*)╯

We stand at:

1,081,342 words (uncoded)

And:

1,031,503 words (uncoded estimate)

That will definitely change as I edit and when I get the actual word count from Renpy.

But....8DDD

The biggest part of this game is now *finished*

Yuu's route is around 112,000 words (uncoded) which puts it right in the middle. I do expect it to climb a bit as I know there are areas I have to flesh out in later chapters.

I have started revising the route and am up to Chapter Five. I don't know for sure how much revising there is to be done. Chapter 1-3 had some changes, but it wasn't too bad. Mostly fleshing things out.

Chapter Four has an important plot scene that needed a lot of rewriting and so that chapter was extensively revised. One of my major focuses during revising is fleshing out the branching in the earlier chapters, which was quite a bit lower than the average amount of branching I strive for. All of them are better than they were and the overall branching is in a much better state already since Chapters 1 - 4 were where it was being pushed down a bit.

What remains is mostly going to be cleaning up the flow of Morgan's plot arc and making sure it reads well. This is a much more character oriented route vs plot oriented so I don't have to juggle heavy plot points. Still, character oriented stories come with their own struggles so...will just be working on smoothing that out.

I don't know if it will need two revision passes. That will just depend on how messy the later chapters get. Ha ha. We'll see. So far it's been okay though!

I am starting to organise my resources for the sprite art, which I'll probably tackle after revising and proofreading are done. I have to do a couple of new sprites and also make some new variations for Morgan and Yuu (both of whom will get at least one more outfit and hairstyle.)

And I'm starting to keep track of where I can place CG moments. =D

Sneak Peeks:

None for now! FOR NOW!. But Soon.

Upcoming Week:

Revissssiiing!

I don't know where the revision process will stand a week from now, honestly. 

Some routes I have really been able to do a full revision in a week because the first draft was relatively clean and only needed moderate revising. Other routes have taken two weeks for the first revision and another two weeks for the second revision.

It honestly varies quite a lot.

I'll definitely be focusing on revisions this week though. By next Friday I should know if I need to do another pass or when I'll be done!

See you then!