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Dev Report #5 (May 6th, 2023)
🕑 Added 2023-05-06 16:29:08 +0000 UTCYo, I hope all of you are doing well. 🙂
(We'll be hitting 80% soon.)
Firstly, the next weekly will be released on Monday instead of today or Sunday. I was invited to hang out with some friends I haven't seen in a good minute and I've been going giga hard since January so I admittedly could use a small amount of time to reset. I've only taken a handful of days off since my return and even on those days I'd still find a way to sneak some work in. So I'm going to take this time to rest and reset before getting right back to it. I love what I do but I don't want to repeat mistakes of the past and burn myself out by pouring too much into WVM.
Though, I do plan on double releasing this upcoming week. Monday and Friday.
I held a poll recently for what days you guys would prefer for me to release updates on. After combining results between Patreon and SS, Friday seems to be the winner.
I would like to make clear that Fridays will not be hard set days, just more of a target day.
So after the releases this week, I'll try and target Fridays but the days will vary.
The goal is to release 52 small updates before April next year. That requires averaging a release every 7 days but some of those will be 4 days apart and some 10 days apart. We're currently behind schedule but I knew the start would be rocky with having to finalize things from the backlog as well as trying to plan out things for the season 1 rework on top of trying to catch up on side content.
I don't plan on rushing to catch up, we're only about to be 5/52, there's plenty of time left to work those days down. Right now the goal is to just land near 7 days between releases every week.
And speaking of the rework, I still wasn't able to make a graphic this week to report on progress. But I do have a few numbers to share but these are not completely final. More so ballpark numbers as some things may need tweaked.
Rework Progress:
6950 still images - 65%
85 animations - 30%
Scene creation - 75%
Storyboarding - 100%
Code - 30%
Dialogue - 55%
There's still a ton of work left on it but with me hiring help for it, things should start speeding up a lot. The work also hasn't been done in order so there's some gaps to fill in.
The animation PC I've built and added to my collection of PCs this week will also be used to start rendering rework animations as that's what we're most behind on.
There's work and progress happening everywhere and every day we're getting closer to finishing things. 👍
Lastly I wanted to share that annual patrons that signed up around 9-10 months ago have been getting locked out of content recently and I'm not sure why. I think this is due to me pausing pledges in March and April. I've tried contacting patreon about it but I have not heard back yet.
If anyone has experienced this and if you know how to fix it, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could share how with me.
I think that's all I have to share for the moment, as always thank you all so much for the continued support.
I'm very grateful for all of the kind words and love you guys have been showing me. It means an absolute fuck ton. I'm glad you guys have been enjoying the content.
And I hope all of you have amazing weeks.
Take care, talk to you soon. ❤
Comments
Braindrop
Link your discord to your patreon account and it should auto-add you to the discord. 👍
Norsehhh
Anyone got a discord link I can’t find one?
patreon ToS wont allow for it and BD mentioned they wont add it through other means but there might be relationships between them and the other girls in the future
Drey
Did you touch up certain characters to make them even cuter or did I just forget how good they look??
Braindrop
Mack is doing well. She had been working for me part time while she maintained her main job but after the company she works for went through a round of layoffs she's been focusing on that as her role expanded there. She still helps when she can and she does plan on coming back later on but for the time being it's just me. 🙂
Royal ? Douche
Cant wait for more updates., Curious tho if there will ever be anything between real bro/sis or son/mom. I feel like that would be an interesting twist.
Enjoy your time off BD. One question though, what happened to McKenzie?
King Ayedrain
I Have Became Big Fan Of This Cant Wait See How The Relationship With Sky Plays Out Because Of Him I Now Have To Say I'm Bi
UncleLoco
Really looking forward to the re-work I have so many questions that hopefully get answered in it. Keep up the great work man.
I've been really enjoying everything and the consistency has been great, keep it up and take breaks now and then so you can be your best self! Thanks for everything BD
Yepthatguy
You are awesome BD Rework is a lot further along than I thought. And the updates are just gushing out. Very impressive. Not to mention the graphics in these new updates 🤤🥵
Grenader
Keep up the good work. Enjoy yourself this weekend you deserve it. Thanks for keeping us informed.
Eric V
Dude your the champ ! Take a well deserved rest and know that we are proud of you ! Your work is as good as ever and we greatly appreciate the work ethic. Just dont burn yourself down. Have a great week !
Dante Sparda
It's always a good thing to take time for yourself and your family from time to time.
tinmoosel
I upped my pledge and it fixed (sort of, the discord is still weird), but everytime I had tried to just update the payment it started to go through but errored out
