Episode 4 - A Dog's Day - Dev update #2
Added 2022-08-08 11:27:06 +0000 UTCThis week was a highly productive week!
Episode 4 rushes closer, with both coding and rendering now over 90% complete. By the next dev update I should be well into play testing and bug fixing - so if all goes well, fingers crossed Episode 4 will release to Patrons late August/Early Sep.
Episode 4 is pretty huge - it now has more renders (excluding animation renders) than episodes 1-3 put together. I have also started writing the copy for Episode 5 - Faux Sable, and it is likely going to be even bigger again.
Which leads me to the bad news.
Being new to Renpy and coding, I made an early mistake when setting up the code and file structure for episodes 1-3. Every time a a new episode released, players would have had to re-download everything - and as the size of the game exponentially increases that gets unrealistic!
So to avoid future pain, I have corrected the code in the next release. This means that players will have to re-download E1-E4 (approx 1.6 gigabytes right now), with a risk that save games *should* work fine... but not guaranteed. At worst you'll have to play through Eps 1-3 again... and pick a different path ;)
Hopefully by making this change now, Episode 5 can be released as a much smaller "update" that can be installed over the top of the previous episodes.
(love)
Miss Cherrylicious
