This has been an eventful fortnight. Just as we were finishing up scene 8, Snax decided to merge it into scene 6 to improve the flow of the story. This involved some hefty story rewrites, and a bunch of replacement renders owing to a change in location. (And, 11 animations…)

We managed to nail down the new Frankenstein scene 6/8 and are now most of the way through scene 9.

While Snax was busy working on story rewrites and new renders, we managed to finish coding on a couple more of the scenes that are left. That’s why the “Coding” gauge seems out of whack. Don’t worry, though, we’ll get back to our “just-in-time” coding in the near future. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

State of the Project

As of this week, we’ve completed over 8,000 renders total over the project, for both images and animations. That’s 8,000 renders that actually made it into the story, and doesn’t include the many (way too many) aborted renders and animations that were created as part of the quality control and editing processes. Some of these renders take 15 minutes; some approach 2 hours…

Rounding out the audit of the project so far, we’ve created around 52,000 words of dialogue and almost 50,000 lines of source code, spread over 242 files. That’s a far cry from Confusion’s humble single-file HTML Twine beginnings…

News

We conducted an interesting poll on our Discord server this week. The question had to do with how players “handled” Zoey in Chapter 7. (Spoilers ahead.) Interestingly enough, one of the options that was added to the story in response to a bunch of messages we’ve received, wasn’t chosen by a single player in the poll (i.e. ending things with Zoey). The other two options came out about how we expected: 38% chose counseling/redemption for Zoey, and 62% chose the, um, less PG-13 route.

And now for something completely different …

Welcome to our new supporters! We really appreciate it—you’re the reason we keep doing this. If you haven’t already, please join us on our Discord server and say hi!

Fair patrons, cast your eyes upon these two visual treasures, born of our recent efforts!