Happy Weekend my friends!

I'll keep this devlog brief because I really need to manage my time and get working on this update. This week I managed to get more accomplished with scene 1 finally. This is a long scene (around 280 images). And I left off on image number 0090. This week I completed 'building' the set for the rest of the scene, and today I'll start back rendering images starting at 0091. I can't say how far I'll get over this weekend, but I'm hopeful that I'll complete scene 1 before Monday or Tuesday.

I also have decided to use some ambient sound effects here and there. Not a lot though. After play-testing this scene with the ambient sound and the music, I am really happy with how it is turning out. I don't plan on adding sound effects for everything, but certain situations where I feel it will add to the scene, I'll definitely do it.

Episode Selection: Because this novel is kinetic, saving is merely a convenient 'bookmark' for where you left off in the story so that when you play again in the next update, you can pick up where you left off. However, I am working on a new menu item that will allow you to select an episode to play. If you happen to lose your saves (get a new computer or phone, etc...) you'll be able to go in there and start from the episode you want. You can still save of course. But this feature will make it easier for you if you want to go back and play from the beginning of another episode without starting from the beginning, or trying to make sure you create a save at the beginning of an episode. Also, when new updates are released, you could use that to play the latest episode (especially if you happened to forget to save at the end of the previous episode.)

Lessnia (Nia): A few have asked if Nia will be part of the crew. No, she is purely a side character, and you'll learn more about her in Ep.3. Nia gained a few fans after the release of Ep.2, and I'm happy that she was well received. I don't plan on having a ton of LI's (like in Serenity). But I do plan to have various side-sex stuff. As Nia so politely pointed out at the end of Ep.2, Mike is in effect, DeFacto King of Pantheria because of his recent pet status with Queen Tessa. So, you can imagine that pretty much every girl you see (and have seen so far) are 'open for business'. But ALWAYS, your main LI's come first: Lexi, Natalie, Kalina, Dezzy, and Alaina... they are the main love interests. Now Aury is there too of course. She can be considered a main LI also. But she is there for some side-fun mostly, as well as being the "Data" aboard the Aurora. No ship can be without a super intelligent android (especially a sexy female android that wants you).

Anyway, on with the show. I'm having a nice slow IT workday and I am working from home. So, guess what I'm doing... RENDERING. I plan on doing as much of that as I can this weekend. In fact, I have Atom and Studio up and running right now. As soon as I post this devlog, I'll be getting started. I know I have said this a lot lately, but please hang in there. I'm working on it. And thanks to all of you who are sticking around and keeping faith in me. Hopefully next week's devlog will see a lot more progress than you've seen from me in months.

Love you all, ...Fire