Some Words On 0.6.0.5

Good morning,

this was quite a week for me... a lot of crunch and in the end a mixed result which on the one hand made me happy in the case that I was able to release it before easter but on the other hand came a lot later and with things I had to take out because even with the delay I wasn't able to complete/polish them.

But let's start at the beginning. On monday I continued working on the story which at that point only meant writing the final scene + making a conclusion event for the events. When this was done on Tuesday I worked on some more images for the scene to expand it a little which lead to another small animation for Arianna (meant as a little foreplay). I also took the time to work on animations for Bianca (after all we are still missing the defeat animations for her and I wanted to complete this with this update) + I added a small scene for Lyvia at the camp with a mercenary that I wanted to add in a while but never had the time for.

Then the first tests started and what can I say... I just couldn't bring myself to like it. It is always difficult for me as the creator to get a good grasp if that what I created is any good. When you sit on animtions and edit them with every small pixel and remove clipping and other problems you lose the ability to see the scene from the perspective it should be viewed from. But still, usually I get some impression and then I like my work. This time however it was different. I put a lot of work into the textures for Arianna, but the engine is in that case really limited and not meant for... this (I'm still trying to avoid spoilers).

So what came after was an attempt to edit images in big style and pretty much change them so that only a minimum of the original was left by the end. This worked good for single images but for animations... I thought I had it done somewhat good, but even now I will probably have to rework some of the images in Arianna's current animation.

Near the end of the week I still wasn't fully done with all the events and originally I had some bigger plans for easter and wanted to add more than what I now in the end added. But I realized that I wouldn't be able to edit the other animations for Arianna in time the same way I did with all her other images. So I focussed on the minimum so that I would still be able to tell the story and release the update in time. Even by doing this it took late into the night before it was done.

So, that is the current state. There are a few things still in the pipeline and I want to add them as soon as possible. Because of that I'll update the current release in the coming week and put the missing content in that I've worked on but wasn't able to finish.
But for now I'm trying to relax a little and enjoy the holidays (I won't work on Monday).
On tuesday I'll then go back to it and do what I can to get it done as quickly as possible.

That is all for now, I wish you all a happy Easter!