Welcome everyone to the second-to-last update. This one will be a very scatter brained and personal update. Second-to-last because the video still isn't ready, but it'll be ready by the time the next update comes around, things are pretty much settled and it is just a question of time now. Release date?
At the latest by the end of the month, I'd like to get it done a bit sooner. I've done plenty of video editing before even complex collages and compositions, so I'm relatively confident that it won't take longer than 1-2 weeks for the editing. The biggest concern is the final spurt unexpected bug-fixing and the gameplay itself, more than any editing concerns. For the editing I'll try to mostly go for a hand-drawn aesthetic with some wholesome 100 quirkiness, not because I am a fan of the aesthetic, but simple because it is "safe" and easy to pull-off [drawing tablet + krita for the win]. You know what they say, Keep It Simple Stupid. No more avant-gard collage for me, I am a reformed shakai-jin (not) now.
That being said, the programme is still not done, I need one final (big) debug session to tie-up some loose ends, thank god no big architectural changes, or major features to be added. And then one other (smaller) debug session for some small extensions I'll need to include. I had an annoying navigation bug, and a opaque scheduler interaction [yes, this piece of crap has cooperative scheduling] that really threw me for a loop, the worst was a part of the programme I had marked as "bug-free" but actually wasn't, those where 2 and a half (10 hour) workdays down the drain. This last-spurt has given me a fair number of nervous (psychotic?) breakdowns; and throbbing unilateral headache. I think I'm really running low on intellectual (and bodily) energy. That's what I get for not taking breaks, and eating like shit, not only do I end up writing crap code; but eventually I can't even write code at all because of the headache.
Anyway, enough wallowing in self-pity. Another "difficult thing" that is left on our plates is the japanese script. I think that it is quite smart to exploit the japanese audience directly, a very isolated audience that doesn't speak much english, so much so, that there are whole channels dedicated to "translating" (localizing?) western "content" for the japanese audience. A few months ago I was considering this quesition and I found a channel that (using the waaaay to common "yukuri voice" summarised DREAM SMP videos). So yeah, as a savvy entrepreneur I want in.
I being needlessly aloof. Of course it is not just about the entrepreneurial angle.
Being honest here I am close to a complete breakdown. But at least so is the video. So either it breaks or I will, and I am not in a mood for failing this time. I think this actually can do it, I think I might actually pull through this time. I guess this is why I've been feeling extra-crap and extra-paranoid. Imagine if everything came to nought, if I was run over by a bus sometime soon.... what a waste.
Now I'd like to have an even more personal aside. I think the posts here (denpachan) have been even more negative than unusual. Well life seems more negative than usual as-well, but I don't really have an object perspective on that. I fear that at times I have contributed to the toxicity, I am sorry, but I always have to speak my mind, otherwise the little sanity that I have left will be lost forever.
I just want life to be joyous again. The winter has been long. And this time in the desert has made me prickly. I keep fighting for a more joyous life.... Well I'll level with you, I've been scratching some of the bucket list anime out; I really don't think I can keep going if this fails.
Stay strong friends, we'll meet again shortly, I'll do this final push, and we'll all go to Valinor or whatever.
Thus communicated through the official channels, Zarathustra.
Second-to-last because the video still isn't ready, but it'll be ready by the time the next update comes around, things are pretty much settled and it is just a question of time now.
Release date?
At the latest by the end of the month, I'd like to get it done a bit sooner. I've done plenty of video editing before even complex collages and compositions, so I'm relatively confident that it won't take longer than 1-2 weeks for the editing. The biggest concern is the final spurt unexpected bug-fixing and the gameplay itself, more than any editing concerns.
For the editing I'll try to mostly go for a hand-drawn aesthetic with some wholesome 100 quirkiness, not because I am a fan of the aesthetic, but simple because it is "safe" and easy to pull-off [drawing tablet + krita for the win]. You know what they say, Keep It Simple Stupid. No more avant-gard collage for me, I am a reformed shakai-jin (not) now.
That being said, the programme is still not done, I need one final (big) debug session to tie-up some loose ends, thank god no big architectural changes, or major features to be added. And then one other (smaller) debug session for some small extensions I'll need to include. I had an annoying navigation bug, and a opaque scheduler interaction [yes, this piece of crap has cooperative scheduling] that really threw me for a loop, the worst was a part of the programme I had marked as "bug-free" but actually wasn't, those where 2 and a half (10 hour) workdays down the drain.
This last-spurt has given me a fair number of nervous (psychotic?) breakdowns; and throbbing unilateral headache. I think I'm really running low on intellectual (and bodily) energy. That's what I get for not taking breaks, and eating like shit, not only do I end up writing crap code; but eventually I can't even write code at all because of the headache.
Anyway, enough wallowing in self-pity.
Another "difficult thing" that is left on our plates is the japanese script. I think that it is quite smart to exploit the japanese audience directly, a very isolated audience that doesn't speak much english, so much so, that there are whole channels dedicated to "translating" (localizing?) western "content" for the japanese audience. A few months ago I was considering this quesition and I found a channel that (using the waaaay to common "yukuri voice" summarised DREAM SMP videos).
So yeah, as a savvy entrepreneur I want in.
I being needlessly aloof. Of course it is not just about the entrepreneurial angle.
Being honest here I am close to a complete breakdown. But at least so is the video. So either it breaks or I will, and I am not in a mood for failing this time. I think this actually can do it, I think I might actually pull through this time.
I guess this is why I've been feeling extra-crap and extra-paranoid. Imagine if everything came to nought, if I was run over by a bus sometime soon.... what a waste.
Now I'd like to have an even more personal aside. I think the posts here (denpachan) have been even more negative than unusual. Well life seems more negative than usual as-well, but I don't really have an object perspective on that. I fear that at times I have contributed to the toxicity, I am sorry, but I always have to speak my mind, otherwise the little sanity that I have left will be lost forever.
I just want life to be joyous again. The winter has been long. And this time in the desert has made me prickly. I keep fighting for a more joyous life.... Well I'll level with you, I've been scratching some of the bucket list anime out; I really don't think I can keep going if this fails.
Stay strong friends, we'll meet again shortly, I'll do this final push, and we'll all go to Valinor or whatever.
Thus communicated through the official channels, Zarathustra.