WSC Ramble

I don't think I'm at a point yet where I'll be doing weekly WSC posts. However. Since there were some relevant updates this week I wanted to go ahead and do a status post:

1. The new laptop. If you've read the GS devlog, you know I ended up having to get a new laptop this week. This is particularly relevant to WSC as I've been working on getting a set of 1st chapter CGs of the LIs complete.

I had initially wanted to include these in the snapshot but wasn't sure I'd get them done before Amare Festival was over. And I didn't want to stress myself out trying, so I went ahead and posted the game without the CGs (though they were already in progress.).

I really struggled with the new laptop monitor for several days because the colours were so badly off from my last one and I was just trying to get them to look similar. I continued to work on the CGs through the struggle and finally go the monitor calibrated in a way that is mostly similar to how the other one displayed colours. It was an adventure. (Let's not discuss the windows update that happened RIGHT after I got it set up....and reset all the display defaults. I nearly cried.)

2. I updated the builds with the CGs now. Huzzah!

These CGs are not really reflective of how the CGs throughout the game will look since I am hoping to not exclusively do CGs of the love interests just lounging around. But since these are their introductory CGs, there wasn't much else I could show. LoL

3. Because I've been focused on the CGs, I haven't spent at many evenings writing. But I have done some writing. I'm currently finishing up Asher's endings - namely, I have to write the very last ending for his route. And then I will be done with Asher's path through the game.

I'm expecting it to probably be around 60,000-65,000 words. That includes just the Asher-specific content (and, of course, it's just the potato draft). There's about 102,000 words of 'shared' content in the routes. So one *full* route, start to finish, should offer about 165,000 words of content (including all the choices, of course. I have no idea what the linear count would be).

One day I'm going to do a post about overlapping route structures and how hard it is to calculate things like "Route word counts" LoL

BUT YEAH. Nearly done writing Asher's route. 💪

Now that I'm done with the CGs I can go back to focusing on the writing during my nights/weekend dev time.

That's it for now - that's the ramble!

See you whenever I have more to report on this project! 

~Esh