Progress update 6

Hey guys and girls.
Decided for a few days earlier update than initially planned due to some circumstances.
IRL part: Anyway, to start things off. It's tough. I've never been a fan of multitasking, especially if the topics are all in serious nature. To say that's what is currently going on would be an understatement, as I am very suddenly bombarded with uni related procedures, trying to look for a places to move to (which seems quite unreasonable due to price hikes), contacting mentors for university projects and getting declined, and so on...
And to round it up, that great Samsung nvme drive I've bought last summer that sometimes disconnected? Yeah, it did it twice now in 10 days, each time me needing to fully remove it and put back in place. After installing Samsung Magician tool, it's now confirmed it wasn't my motherboard, but the drive itself is faulty all along. And now I am getting it RMA'ed to Samsung, which caused me to spent countless more hours trying to transfer almost 2 TB of data to other places, as it was my drive and all game related stuff is there. Naturally, I need to wipe it and all, unless I want them to suddenly become the devs for my game haha.

Well, rant over.

I do want to stress out (is this a pun with the above? idk I laughed myself 😄) that I am doing my upmost to keep my mental in check. I've seen some devs succumb to it lately, and I don't plan to be a victim of my own mental. To a good part I have to thank all of you for it, as your presence, understanding, and patience has been the strength to me during this necessary university period. So thank you ❤ And I truly hope I'll deliver back at in when uni finishes in 2-3 months, starting Summer and beyond.

If you've seen the last progress update 5 (Patrons only), you can skip this small paragraph till the next one.
Anyway, since my return from the break, I've first tackled the part of the game that I've felt to be one of the most lacking aspects, and that's the overall code and GUI. If you wish to see it all in action, I've made a small video showing it all in that update 5 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/progress-update-78824410
But some of the most noteworthy things, a great new gallery (which works), and updated menus. Now it also has a nice (at least for my skills) animated main menu featuring Eiko. This will be shown to public later (only for patrons for now) , as I wish to improve on a few small aspects first before I do so. Stay tuned!

Since the last update 5:
While the progress has been rather small last 10 days, we did move at least slowly in the correct direction 😁

570 total renders (+90) We also passed the the 2k dialogue lines mark. WOop.
There isn't much else to say, besides fixing some gremlins and also arranging a rather neat looking map... It will provide with a decent numbers of butt renders, that I can assure.