Friday Update - August 20th, 2021

Why did I make this scene so bloody complicated?

Happy Friday, everybody!!! This week has been me working non-stop on Chapter Two. I took the week off work to do so, and I was hoping that it'd be enough time to completely finish Scene 11. I was naive. I dug too greedily and too deep.

It turns out that the first part of the scene ("12% of a Plan") is 110 renders all by itself. That's about a quarter of how many renders that were in all of Chapter One (which came in at 488, not including animations, Lorebook, and Achievements). Not to mention there was a lot of fiddly code to work out. Granted, to an experienced dev, this would probably be easy -- but I'm still a noob. So "12% of a Plan" took me all of Monday and Tuesday, and half of Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday I was very busy (I'll put that in the "real life" section of the update), so losing two and a half days to one segment was rough.

However -- there won't be any complicated code for the entire rest of Scene 11! Basically how it works is that "12% of a Plan" is you setting things up; the rest of Scene 11 is watching what happens based on your choices (both from your setup and from some choices you made in Chapter One and Two). This means that the hardest part of the big scene is done. While there's a lot of text and renders for it, I don't forsee it being difficult... other than the lighting for this scene being a total bitchface.

If you're looking for something to play in the meantime, Come Home Update 9 just dropped!  There's plenty to do in that, believe me!

Now for Teri's personal life -- skip to the checklist if you want to continue viewing me as a faceless automaton that only exists to churn out a game. 

This past weekend I was completely tied up because it was my friends' wedding! Morgana and I were both major parts of the wedding, with Morgana being the bridesmaid that was by the Bride's side all weekend, while I was the officiant and also at the venue helping with setup. I won't go into all the details here, but it was... exhausting. We collectively dealt with over-political cosmetologists, a bitchy wedding coordinator, a fiddly microphone, a hot rooftop, an angry mother-in-law, a panic over some misplaced keys, and a karaoke room rental. 

I'm not just leaving the details out to keep this post brief -- some of these events are definitely going to be inspiration for future scenes in Mythos, because of how chaotic and intertwined they had become.

So now let's see where we stand with the game!

Things Completed:

- Scene 1: "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
- Scene 2: "It Just B Like That"
- Scene 3: "Trying to Cross the Border, Right?"
- Scene 4: "Y'all Call Back Now, Y'hear?"
- Scene 5: "Fairy Tail"
- Scene 6: "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" / "A Beautiful Mind "
- Scene 7: "Fairy Godmother"
- Scene 8: "Welcome to Hogwarts!"
- Scene 9: "Once Upon a Time in Eorzeroth" / "The Cat Came Back"
- Scene 10: "Ohmigod You Guys!"
- Sex Animations (6/6)
- Chapter Two Achievements (5/5 Complete)
- New Characters designed
- Side Images for new characters
- Jessica Lee Redesign
- Area 42 Band Completion
- Convocation Completion
- New Title Screen

Things In Progress:

- Scene 11: "Teri's Eleven"
-- "12% of a Plan" (Complete)
-- "I Showed Up in Boots" (Complete)
-- "Big Brain Time" (Complete)
-- "Courting the Fae" (Complete)
-- "Electric Youth" (Complete)
-- "Be Our Guest!" (Complete)
-- "Mortal Kombat 2" (Writing)
-- "Friendship is Magic" (Writing)
-- "Clash of the Titans" (Writing)
-- "Bibbidi Bobbidi Bitch" (Writing)
-- "Artful Dodger"
-- "The Prestige"
-- "Talking Circles"
-- "An Offer He Can't Refuse"
-- "Ninja Vanish!"
-- "Wyld Stallyns!"
-- "One Winged Angel" (Some writing done, some renders done)
-- "Ohmigod You Guys! (Reprise)" (Some renders done)
-- "The Cavalry's Here" (Some renders done)
-- "*Zelda Noise*"
-- "Paint it Black"
- Chapter Two Lorebook Entries (Ongoing)
- Music Tracks Produced (19/??)
- Willingness to Participate in Another Wedding (0%)

Things To Do:

- Scene 12: "No, Mister Bond..."
- Scene 13: "Epilogue - Interview With the Vampire"

Keep the Legends alive!

- Teri 💜