Hello new month, new progress report!
Before getting to the official stuff, I just want to comment and say I’ve loved reading the recent comments on the morality of the characters! I really enjoy both the serious story and the fetish stuff of Apostles in equal parts, so I love seeing people engaging with both!
Normally I try to give a response to every comment, but in cases of discussing character morality and such I think it’s better if I let everyone come to their conclusions and opinions to share with others. It would ruin the fun if the author came in and told you how you were meant to feel about characters! But just know I love reading all the above comments.
On to the progress report itself. I don’t know if I’ve ever said it before but Dev work for me usually comes in 4 stages.
Stage 1: Initial excitement of getting to work on an all new update, making plans left and right for all the thing I want to do, and am making scenes left and right with PASSION.
Stage 2: The bulk of dev time is here, actually getting into the weeds of work, and it is much less fun ; Work seems endless, progress seems too slow, and things don’t come together quite as you first imagined. Some ideas have to get cut because the end of the update seems months away, yet you are already months into the dev cycle. (Didn’t mean for it to come off as depressing XD. Just take this stage to mean that Dev work is a marathon, not a sprint, and this stage is when you are tired on mile 10 but there are 16 more to go ahead!)
Stage 3: First sign of light! While you aren’t quite there yet, an actual ending to the update is in sight and each good work day brings you closer to it! Seeing the actual end goal brings the passion back and work comes quicker.
Stage 4: When the update is “done” and whats left is edits, revisions, implementation of sprites, and making all the events work properly.
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I think I’m happy to report that I am nearing the end of stage 2 and getting to stage 3! There’s still one very large section I have to do, but with so much of the update behind me I’m feeling better about getting to that end point! Won’t be this month or next most likely, but we’re getting there. Would help if real life wouldn’t keep getting in the way, but no matter what I’ll keep going slowly but surely!
Thanks all for the support and patience! Hope your new years are all going well!
