Hey there beautiful people!

This week I was busy with bit of a housekeeping and came up with some numbers:

Chapter 1 (Approximations):

9241 blocks of dialog 74661 words. (that's over 12 hours of content!) 7546 still images. (with 816 of them ready) A total runtime of 45 minutes for animated cutscenes (including the juicy ones!)

Here is the deal: I originally planned to gracefully conclude Chapter 1, tying up all the story arcs neatly, but now, I'll have to split it in half. I’m looking at the story here and at this moment don’t see how to handle it without messing up the story structure. But I’ll get there. I hate changing up plans like this, , but it's necessary. I’ll update you when I have more to say on the topic. But let me make a few promises:

1. This won’t turn into a never-ending soap opera. The main plot of this story (including romantic arc of one of the girls) was written back in 2007 and it’s basically a finished novel, although unpublished.

2. Regardless of how many chapters it turn out to be, no seasons, DLCs or any of that shit. It will be one game, with one name, sold on Steam.

3. As long as I'm kicking (and I plan to keep kicking), this game will be developed and finished. Plus, I've got two massive projects lined up after Cascade Falls. Once we're close to wrapping up, I'll let you vote on which one of two we going to develop next.

Now, onto the other news:

I’m currently working on scene 9 and 10, which are linear scenes branching off from day 2. Then it’s scene 12 - it’s a free roam but pretty short and uneventful. All sets are done, all characters are ready. It’s just straightforward posing and adding to the queue. I expect to finish them next week.

On the coding side, I completed the messenger app. It turned out exactly as I wanted, even with the rollback feature. I’m happy that I didn’t have to reuse someone else's code. Next up, coding other smartphone apps like “quickture” (our version of Instagram), qMail, Contacts, a dating app, and “viewbox” (our YouTube equivalent).

That’s it for the news and updates for this week. Stay cozy and snug, everyone.

Stray Paranormal out!

Meow! 🐾