So, right up front, I want to be clear that I'm doing everything in my power to change up my strategy to something more effective to try and have the guide and v1.0.2 for Maids & Masters done by this Friday, the 12th.
However...
As I've been going through and creating Appendix A - the one that covers all of the Maids and their affection quests - I've discovered that it was taking me about 4 hours per Maid to finish everything for their part of the appendix. That means only two got done in a day, and while that's not a terrible pace, it's not nearly quick enough to have all 23 Maids done by Friday.
That also leaves me with no time to add in the rest of Appendix A and cover the mothers, where you find them, how to unlock their scenes, and what their mechanics are.
Or, y'know, fill out the other appendices. The full enemy stat blocks alone are probably going to be a day or two's worth of work unless it proves to be significantly easier than I'm expecting.
With me being gone for most of the back half of the month, I really don't want to have to announce any delays, so I changed up my strategy a bit. Instead of going Maid by Maid, I took a day to copy in all the visual assets from the game to make the fluff pages I wanted to make and got all of those done in one day. I then did the same thing with their Strategies & Synergies pages and got all of those done in one day.
I do have some social obligations this week still, so I certainly don't expect to get everyone's affection quests done in a single day, but I'm hoping I'll still be able to find enough time to get them all done over the course of two days (today and tomorrow), and knock out everything else on Thursday and Friday so release can happen, even if it's late in the day.
That's an extremely tight time frame, though, and assumes that everything will go more smoothly and much faster than I'm expecting it to, which is almost never the case with the way my life tends to go. I hope I'll prove myself wrong and everything will fall neatly into place and the guide will release without a hitch or any delays, but I do want you to be prepared for release being delayed by a week.
That does still present a problem, as I'll be out of town starting in the middle of next week, but that still gives me four more days to get everything done. Which is conveniently pretty close to how much time I'm otherwise projecting the guide will take to complete if things take as long as I'm worried they will. If there is a delay, it'll only be for one week, which isn't awful.
Hope for the best, brace for the worst. You'll find out for sure on Friday when I make the Patreon and Subscribestar posts.
I'm still pretty happy with how the guide is turning out, though. Unlike the game, which is full of cut content and things I would've liked to do differently or better but couldn't for a number of reasons, the guide is pretty much exactly what I want it to be, and I hope you're excited to get your hands on it.
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