Happy Thursday everyone! I'm posting this devlog a day earlier because well, it's Friday for me since I am off work tomorrow. I took off so that I can focus on finishing some scene work for a section of the episode that I ended up rewriting yesterday. Yeah, you know me... I just got to reading through it and it didn't feel exciting enough to me. So, I rewrote 3 scenes. These scenes are related to an 'away' mission (using Star Trek analogy there hehe). The 'bread and butter' of Last Human are the 'away' missions because with this mechanic, I can go literally anywhere and create anything my mind comes up with. Endless possibilities. It gives me room to really explore. All while being entertained by the daily engagements between Captain and crew.

Recently I revealed Ecko (the final name I decided to give her). Ecko is basically half Teldarian and half machine. A cyborg, if you will. She was a planned character 4 years ago when I first started writing Last Human as a story. As a cyborg, Ecko has basically the same strengths as MC. She has a peaceful, sweet demeanor and prefers peace over fighting. But this may be a conflict she has to overcome later on if she is forced to fight in order to protect others. The image of her I released earlier was just a few concept renders. She has changed slightly as you can see.

Moving on... with the rewriting I did, so far this week I've been mostly focused on that and also working on the scene renders themselves at the same time. Still, none of this really set me back all that much. So, I'm still making great progress. I plan to have these 'away mission' scenes completed over this weekend.

I also did some testing with different ways to make my episode playlist. It won't be in the next update, but hopefully the episode 5 update. The idea behind the playlist is that you won't really have to depend on saves to pick up where you left off when an update comes out. I will add the option to name your character (and pet name) there when you go to play an episode. It also makes it easier for you to replay an episode that was your favorite.

Future of Last Human... After thinking about it for a while and reading all of my notes and ideas for episodes, I've decided that season 1 of LH will be 8 episodes total. This will be a good stopping point to keep the filesize to a minimum, but with enough content to read through. Season 2 will also be 8 episodes. This is to help maintain a manageable filesize for everyone. But once season 2 (for example) is completed, I will create an optional download that combines both seasons into one build. I haven't thought much beyond season 2 yet because I'm pretty sure that during the last few episodes of season 1, I will have finished Serenity and started on Viral Affair. None of this is carved in stone yet, of course. Just giving you a rough idea of my plans. Once chapter 2 of Serenity is completed, work on Viral Affair will begin immediately after. For my Serenity fans... don't worry too much. There is a good chance I may have some smaller projects that revisit that world down the road. Also, at some point, I do still want to rework chapter 1 because well, its really cringe and I hate that. And for fans of Camilla, yes... I want to do something special where you get to fun time with her as "not her brother". I have already written some preliminary story ideas for that one and it will likely be very good stuff. I didn't do that great with personalities of the girls early on and still fight with that now, but my Camilla project is going to be very different.

A lot of plans and ideas, I know. I am in this for the long haul and whether I was doing this on Patreon or not, I'd still do this just because that creative side of me NEEDS to get it done and see it come alive. Meanwhile, this all happens one step at a time and unfortunately, I'm just one person that still works a full time job aside from this. So, hang in there, stick with me, be patient ;)

Love you all, ...Fire