Inheritance Progress Report

Panic, Chaos, Disorder!

Seriously though, its been an interesting day all across the board.

Spent about half of the day dealing with fallout related to my vehicles (I mentioned what happened in yesterday's report.  Got the second vehicle into the shop today.  Sounds like the problem could either be something really easy to fix, or one of about half a dozen expensive things.  Today we ruled out the easy fix.  :S ) which cut fairly heavily into my work time today.  Even so, I still managed to finish up a really good chunk of work today.

Where we currently stand:  I've got two scenes, a bit over 6k words of content between them that just need to be coded into the game.  Also am about 1.5k words of content into a new bedroom scene for Anna that's turning into a LOT of fun to write, . . . . its going to require a very high relationship value to trigger, but for those of you who like to pamper and love her, its going to be worth the grind to get it.  ;)  In other words we've got somewhere between 7-8k words of new content for the next build already.  I should have no trouble hitting 10-15k which will make it a fairly good size build (I usually aim for 5-8k for a release if you want a little context),  Very happy with this week's progress so far.

In addition to all of that:  

-Ran down a couple of minor bugs and such in the game (Nothing game breaking.  I think the most noticeable item was an image that was not displaying properly in the intro.) which will appear in the next major build of the game

-Got updated sketches for the busts commissioned for Wanton Cove.  After a brief conversation with our long time artist for the project, I think he's becoming a fan of the game.  :P  He mentioned playing the game early on just to get a feel for the setting, and now he sounds kind of excited about the prospect of getting to play new builds, . . . 

I may get a little more writing done this evening, but only time will tell for sure.

Tomorrow should give me a 5 hour window to work.  I hope to finish up the scene I'm working on right now during that time and then hopefully start adding the next branch of the contest entry that started appearing in the A10 build.

Thursday should be a good day for work.  Should have 4-6 hours early in the day, then probably another four hours in the evening.  I'm hoping to be putting the final touches on the next build by then as I prepare to send it out to testers.

Friday:  Friday could go either way.  Depending on a couple of factors (Whether or not I have a running vehicle by the end of the week being the biggest factor) will depend on if that's a date day with my wife or if its another work day.  If its a date day, then I'll release the new Wanton Cove build in the afternoon but am unlikely to do much else work related.  If its a work day, then we'll still see the Wanton Cove build released in the afternoon, but I'll also be able to fit in +/-6 hours of work time as well.

Saturday:  Bug fixes for anything reported related to the new build.  Inheritance test build released unless I forget again, . . . . in which case it will appear on Sunday.  And I'd guess about a one in three chance I get to sneak off and write for a couple of hours.

Hope you're all having a wonderful day!