Weekly update - overcoming art block and some good news

Hey all,

Here's the first weekly blogpost for which I'm still kind of workshopping the format.

On the menu : a quick status update, an artwork sneak peek and some brand new progress indicators.

First of all, after last telling you that things were not going so well on the creativity department, I've taken some time to clear my mind to try and refocus. I've then sought advice and brainstormed with my significant other, and that helped a lot.

I actually found some plot devices to fill the holes that caused me much despair, and I ended up reworking a big part of the script. That of course means some additional workload but since I like this version of the story much better, it should not feel like a chore. I should still be able to fit most of the artwork I already had prepared, bar some minor reworks and some additional filler pieces to complete. That's great news for me, because I feel like the engine is running again and I start making some looong awaited progress.

It's storyboarded and written, meaning I now have to actually script it (the tedious part). For more details on this, if some of you are interested I might use those weekly updates to do some technical deep dives on the tools I use(mostly homebrewed stuff), as from a transparency standpoint it might give more visibility on what I'm doing.

To illustrate this, I mentioned progress indicators, so I thought about integrating stuff like this :

 Format might change a bit, but these should give a good progression snapshot as the release cycle advances.

Since the plot has been reworked, the new mechanic I mentioned earlier might not come up in the next update which is kind of a bummer but it also means less workload on the coding department, silver lining !

I still leave myself a buffer for testing/bugfixing, as it might take longer than anticipated.

As always, thank you so much for the support, bear with me, and I'll leave you in good company...