Weekly Status Report

Good afternoon,

the week is again almost over, so time to give you a review on the things I managed to get done.

First of all: I'm sorry that the update wasn't released this week as I intended to do. I did what I could to get there over the past days but with every passing day it became less likely and with it the pressure I felt became higher.

I started the week with working on some additional animations for the lake scene (mostly for transitions). Then I also worked on some more images for the Dave & Penny scene to make the steps more comprehensible. For that I also have thought of a replay feature that you can watch if you miss some of the developement between them (I had to think about that a lot, first I wanted to make things only trigger if the player is actually there, then I decided that it would be more realistic if things happen even if he isn't, but in that case I didn't want you to actually miss all the scenes that I have written... so this was the best solution).

After that I continued working on the main story and decided to expand it a little for the upcoming update. Originally I had planned to leave some things out for now but after playing it all through in my mind I came to the conclusion that it would now fit in much better than at a later time. This of course also took some more time and I had to add some more images as well.
Last but not least I added the recruitment mercenary for the camp so that replenishing mercs becomes easier (he will show up after at least one merc died) - I plan to add more automation for this whole process in the future as I don't want it to be a tedious thing the player has to keep track of. Similar to how healing tinctures take care of wounded in Rumah.

What's now still open to do is the actual implementation of the lake scene as well as a lot of testing of the mechanics I've added. I wish I could somehow get this done today but even if I'd work until midnight it's unlikely. So as much as I hate it, I have to delay the update by at least one more day.
I probably could have made it today if it hadn't been for the week I was sick, but there's no point complaining about spilt milk.

Instead, I will continue to go full speed ahead and complete the update as quickly as possible.
I hope you can forgive me the delay and I wish you all a nice weekend!