August 2025 Debriefing

Hello again crew,

I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is Alpha 2 for chapter 6 is almost done. The bad news is I need about another week to finish it. Unfortunately I was fairly busy dealing with personal matters this month that I wasn't able to get as many renders done as I would have liked, with only 11 renders being completed.

I only need about another 9 renders to be at a good stopping point. The scene that follows is fairly long with a lot of renders, some of which may be animations if I think that adds to the feel, that I don't think its worth my delaying alpha 2 until after that scene is rendered. Now unlike alpha 1 which I only made available to Captain tier supporters, the plan for alpha 2 is to make it available to all supporters. The reason for this is that I want to get something released more widely to show that development is still actively being done. You might be asking yourself now "why alpha 2 and not alpha 1?" To which the answer is that I didn't feel like alpha 1 had quite enough content to make it available to all but the people that really wanted to see what happens next. Alpha 2 is sitting at 912 lines of code, which I feel is a decent amount of content for more widespread still in development build of chapter 6.