Friday Progress Update, Apr 26: "Saving the Princess"

Hello, folks!

That's right, I'm back with another Friday Progress Update. I'm a failure and I'll tell you why!

For progress, I've begun to tinkering with the renders, setting up locations, clothes, other props, and so on. I'm still developing the script as well.

I had a cold this week and was knocked out for a few days. No RL work -yay! No energy or focus to write much either -boo! We're done with that now though, and there was progress every day, this thing ain't going to develop itself, right?

Anyway, I don't know if I've talked about my writing routines. Basically, I write in a plain text file first. The text is a kind of basic ren'py code to make it easier and faster to do the actual coding later. It might look like this:

 scene miko entering with tray, new maid top  miko "Good morning, Sir. Miss Elisabeth sent me to bring you breakfast."  jack "Did she, now? That's thoughtful of her."  miko "Yes, Sir."

 scene miko talking  jack "How come you knocked, by the way?"  miko "Because I'm bringing you breakfast, Sir."

each "scene" is a new render, and roughly what's in it. As you can see, only part of the text is the actual dialogue. So I said I'd try to do a tad smaller update this time, and I'm starting to think I'll fail at that. You guys vote for bigger updates though so you probably don't mind much.

For example, the base script for the first part of day14, this was the short Miko morning scene, the walk with Beth, the Hannah-in-the-gym lewdness, the meet with Ash and Cat downtown, the later Miko or Miko+Beth scene, depending on choices. Some talks with Charles, maybe something more I forgot. The basic script for this stuff was 53k. The last update had the party though, and that was big due to all the branching.

So anyway, for this update, as you know, I'm going for longer scenes with fewer characters. Basically, I very roughly thought of it as four slices of pie, each one with one of the girls as the main ingredient, and each one about 25k, for a total of a 100k script. A good sized update, not my biggest, but solid.

So, the fail. I knew something was up when the script was sitting at 35k after the first quarter. Then at 2/4 it was at 65k. Now I'm almost at 90k and I'm not close to finishing the 3rd part. And the final slice of pie will probably be about as big as the others. Duh!

Anyway, it's all under control. It just won't be the smaller update I had envisioned, lol.

Look at all that rambling. The pen ran away from me and did its own thing! I had nothing better to write about anyway so I guess it's something. I'll work some on the actual script now - and I need to find a top for Miko!

See you guys again soon, and thank you for your support!