Hey, thought I'd stop by and give everyone an update on Chapter 2's progress. I'm aiming for a release sometime this summer. As I've said before, it's the longest chapter of the three, and whatever free time I have for rpg maker goes into both this and Story of Innocence. So, I'm working as fast as I can, but in the meantime I've uploaded a some more screens that show some progress.

Here's a little video from part of the beginning of chapter two. Fair Warning: This video contains MAJOR spoilers for those who haven't played chapter one, and minor spoilers for those who have.

It's hard working on two games. I know I said work on SOI will not interfere with my work on Raciela, but the reality is that it has - I just love working on both. Also, about a few months ago, upon starting my computer, I was told "a hard drive failure was imminent." So, I tried making a backup of my everything on my external harddrive, but midway through, it failed completely. I took it to a local computer shop to see if it could be recovered, and they said "Maybe, but it'll take $200 to even try" and I don't have that kind of money to spend on a possibility. And even though I have all my projects backed to my external hard drive, my "work files," like sprite sheets were lost. Since then, I bought a laptop, and starting working from there. Now, I a lot of the mods I applied to the rpg2003.exe and rpg_rt.exe aren't working. My old OS was Vista, and the one on my Laptop is Windows 7, so I'm trying to figure out what's wrong.

Regardless, my goal is to release something by the end of this year. Not a complete game, mind you, but a substantial release none the less (once this became my main project I decided to extend the story). I hate giving myself a deadline, but if I don't try to hold myself to it, I probably won't get anything done. I've had this page up for nearly 2 years, but only seriously worked on it for about a year. I think year is enough time to have something tangible to release, so fingers crossed, I'll be able to get it done. In the meantime, here's a video of a small scene:

Nothing special, bascially just a montage of scenes transitioned by credits (only me, surprise). Anyway, it's still a WIP, I just thought I'd share it. In the actual game you would be able to skip this.

Yep, even though I never changed the status, this game has been pretty much on hiatus since my last update. I've had a lot on my plate in the past few months, mainly having to do with work and my impending fatherhood, but now that everything's starting to settle down, I should be able to find time to work on this. That's not to say I haven't made any progress- I have, but it mainly has to do with aspects of the story. So, hopefully you can expect some new screens (gameplay, locations), and a few new characters to be added in the upcoming weeks. Cheers!