What a week. I've finally gotten through the TWO scenes that were giving me the most grief. 

Usually, shooting scenes is relatively easy. I load up a scene I've already constructed, add the characters I need, and get to work. But for this coming Thursday, I had to construct 5 new locales from scratch. 3 were almost identical, so they were a breeze, but for the other two, I had to dig through StudioNEO's cache of maps (WHICH HAS NO SEARCH FUNCTION, BY THE BY) and suffer analysis paralysis over which ones to use lol.

Anyways, I've gotten a ton of work done this week. I have exactly one scene left to finish shooting for Thursday. I did most of the bugtesting for Thursday as well (everything but that scene I have yet to shoot). After that, all I have to do is add music and Thursday is done.

Speaking of music, I've also started organizing and converting a couple of new music packs I bought, and my god, y'all. These tracks are so goddamn good.  

Compared to Thursday, Friday will be a breeze. I'm still writing the second to last scene, but it's all planned out so far. This current scene I'm writing will likely be a pain to shoot as well, but I don't think I have ANY scenes on Friday that take place in locales I haven't already created. 

Lastly, I've started Rimulex on the system that will enable the optional content. Starting in the Security Arc, you'll have several opportunities per day to take a break from the main story and go spend time with one of the girls, and I'm thinking unlimited time in the evening (that way you're not missing optional content simply because there are no more playable days in the game). It shouldn't take us too long to put this together, and unlike the Gallery system, you're only gonna see buttons for girls that actually have written, unlockable content. No placeholders that aren't unlockable. I know that confused a lot of people in the gallery, so sorry for that.

Anyways, the long and the short of it is, all I have to do for Thursday is shoot the Evening scene, and then add music to all the scenes and bugtest. On Friday, I have the scene planning for the big scene mostly done and have written about 1/5th of it. Until then, enjoy this shot of Nook that I'm sure you all remember.

Am I teasing you? Absolutely. Am I gonna die for it? Probably. What happened to Nook, anyways? Find out...

ON THE NEXT EXCITING EPISODE OF ACADEMYBALLZ!

- Vic