Hey there friends!

It's been some time and a lot of things have happened, both regarding the game and IRL. The development log is also quite late, but I wanted to get a better overview of the state I'm currently in regarding the game.

At the moment, I'm done with all renders and animations. As I mentioned in the last development log, I'm now actually rendering the scenes out and applying some minor / major tweaks. The initial scenes required some reworking since the lighting didn't match my current expectations anymore, but that's all done now.

All scenes are just "load and render" from this point on and I expect to have a running alpha client in the upcoming week. This also strengthens my initial thought of having a patron release in September and a public release in October!

It's still quite crazy to think about it. After all that happened this year and is happening right now, I'll finally be able to hand out Chapter 4 to you guys.

I loaded up all the saves today and got the exact numbers of my current renders. They might change in the end due to merging some of them together, but not by a large amount. Currently, Chapter 4 will ship with 1712 renders in total, not including the animations, which I haven't counted yet. That's something for the next log.

Another thing, from my last development log:
Small side note: I've updated my itch.io game profile with missing entries and other things that might have prevented it from getting indexed again. So this should be solved in 1-2 weeks as well if everything works out!

Well, turns out this hasn't been resolved yet. The game is still de-indexed. I assume my account has been flagged as hijacked since I bought some AVN audio files on itch a little bit over half a year ago which I can't find on itch directly, so they might have been quarantined as well. (Could possibly explain why my game shows as quarantined for you guys.)

This is just me guessing, though. I have a ticket open on itch to get more info on the topic at this moment. Let's hope this gets solved sooner than later since I might not post the public release on itch until the issue has been fixed.

Alright guys, that's all for today! Have a great week ahead, stay strong and healthy!

With love,
your Panda