Lunar New Year Sneak Peak

 The Year of the Dragon has already kicked off, so I figured I'd post some concept sketches as a celebration of sorts. Have fun speculating on who these characters are (and what their color palettes are too I guess).

Dragon deez nuts across your---

 January 16 is Appreciate a Dragon Day, and 2024 is the year of the dragon in Chinese astrology. As I mentioned in a previous post, I originally wanted BFD to be done by Jan. 16, 2024. Obviously this did not happen.

The game still isn't close to being done. It doesn't help that IRL stuff is once again getting in the way of development for me. I want to make clear, however, that the only thing that will completely cancel BFD's development is my death, and I assure you that unless something horrible happens, I won't be kicking the bucket anytime soon.

But still, it would've been nice to have SOMETHING done by last week. Then it occurred to me: next year is the year of the snake (close enough to a dragon), and Appreciate a Dragon Day is on Jan. 16 every year. What if I got something substantial done by then?

Here's my goal: instead of releasing the entire game at once, I will try to have at least the entirety of chapter 1 done by Jan. 16, 2025. If I can't complete all of it, then I will have a demo out by then. This would at least give the 2 people who read this blog SOMETHING to enjoy after years of nothing, and it would put less strain on me for having to finish the entire game before release.

Of course, there are still some major obstacles for this. I'm still a shitty artist, so I can't guarantee the art in chapter 1/the demo will be representative of the full game's quality. It will likely be changed once the other chapters get released. But hey, better something than nothing, right? At least then I could start advertising the game on Lemmasoft and whatnot.

Expect future blog posts to focus on chapter 1-related stuff.

Loudness normalized

 Just finished normalizing the audio for all the BGM tracks to -24.0 LUFS. I could've done this a long time ago, but I put it off until now. It's a very monotonous process. Now the only edit that remains is converting the MP3s to OGGs, though whether I actually bother doing this depends on the file size of the final game.

Anotha one

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10PYAz-9fA-WwUOY4IdWGcnsz98vHXuCS/view?usp=sharing 

 Another chorus test with the current voice cast. There's some peaking and out of tune areas, but since it's a test I didn't fix them.

Chapter 1 First Part Will Be Rewritten

 Unfortunately I have exhausted all my options in terms of recovering the missing document, which means I will have to write everything all over again. This missing part encompassed about 20% of the whole chapter. Well, since I remember the essential aspects of how I wanted this part to be written, it theoretically shouldn't take too long to get back on track (I may experiment with the prose style which could delay this, though).

Google Has Fucked My Ass

 So the first part of the chapter 1 draft went mysteriously missing. I never deleted the file and I accessed it just fine a week ago. I had 80 or so pages worth of writing in that thing. In spite of all this, upon accessing the link to the file I was informed the file "did not exist". Searching through the trash and through Drive yielded nothing. 

GOOGLE WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE. I MAY HAVE TO WRITE EVERYTHING AGAIN DUE TO YOUR FUCKING INCOMPETENT ASS SYSTEM EATING MY DOCUMENT. I AM ON THE VERGE OF BREAKING INTO GOOGLE HEADQUARTERS AND SLITTING SOMEONES FUCKING THROAT BECAUSE SOMEONE MUST PAY FOR THIS OTHERWISE UNEXPLAINABLE BLUNDER. GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKING FILE

Just an update

 Game hasn't been dead or in hiatus or anything, I basically just don't have anything particularly exciting to show off. Basically I've been working on the final drafts for chapters 1 and 2. The chapter 5 summary has been put on hold because it involves a lot more research than I initially anticipated.