We’re getting close to the end of Chapter 6. One major scene to go, and then testing can begin. Unlike the last couple of chapters, we’ve replaced a lot of the VN’s underpinnings which are going to require some extensive regression testing. There is a new gallery function, which includes static images as well as some animations. And the user interface has been given some spit and polish.

Part of that polish was a minor change adding the ability to see menu choices that you could have accessed if your choice selections had been different. Those choices are disabled, but you can at least see what you missed. Along those lines, Confusion in its present state is kind of like the television show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” in that “the points don’t matter.” They will in the final chapter release as we retune the points system to balance game play. We’ve avoided doing that up until now because, for one, aside from a couple of brief divergent paths, you haven’t really missed anything. And making changes to the points system would have required you to start a new game. We’ll save that for the end.

We know it’s late in the game, but we still can’t in good faith provide a release schedule for chapter 6. It should take another two weeks to finish up the image and animation renders. Beyond that, the schedule will depend on how beta testing goes. It could be as long as three weeks or so, or as short as one week depending on how many bugs are uncovered.

Somebody asked about the corny lines we put at the end of each status report, presenting the two low-res renders selected for that two-week period. After repeating the exact same line over and over again for a few months, we just got tired of the monotony and asked ChatGPT to write a bunch of corny versions in various writing styles. We got a million of ’em, folks. Speaking of which:

Venture forth and partake in the visual chronicle of our recent creative exploits. Be entertained!