It's only been a week since my last progress report.. But I felt like I should mention some things! First off, the bad news.. I nearly lost -all- my progress several days ago. My computer kinna just crapped out on me and I couldn't log on at all. Luckily, I was able to put all my personal files (like the project and all my art and stuff) on my backup hard drive. It's a good thing I was able to do that too because the manual system backup I did didn't work.. Even though it said it was successful. As you could probably tell, my only option was to completely reinstall my computer :c But! My all my personal files are fine so that's great! If they were lost I seriously would have lost all motivation to start again... But thank goodness that isn't the case!

Good news! I started fiddling around with the Visual Novel Maker program and I have to say that yeah, I'm a little bit overwhelmed but I shall persevere! I think I can get a handle on it. I know there are some of you who are willing to help me in this endeavor and I greatly appreciate it, but I wish to do the best I can on my own before I ask for help, besides that I feel as though some others have their own projects or things to work on so I'd really not want to bother. It's just how I am ^^;

One thing I'm worried/thinking about is UI artwork, backgrounds, music, and sound effects.. Though my same reasoning applies, I don't want to bother people, especially since there is no money involved in this project. It is a fan game based off of another after all, so to hopefully avoid any sort of problems I want to make this completely, 100% free. I know the drawbacks this might cause but I will do my best to try and make this visual novel as decent as I can!

As I mentioned in my latest teaser sprite of Freddy, the sprites will be partially animated, mostly blinking! Though I am heavily considering giving them talking sprites, which would be fairly easy for me to do since they'd just be a bunch of mouth replacements. Same pose sprites are kind of boring after all.. But I'm even dreading a limited movement sprite(like a slightly raised arm)! Maybe someday though I'll make more poses, even if that means going back into the program and changing each one to the appropriate pose and expression.. Though I'm complaining about how much work the sprites would take, it's a wonder that I even got this far at all!

I'm honestly quite surprised at myself for actually wanting to continue this project. I've tried to do other projects before but I either lose interest or get infinitely sidetracked. Suffice to say, I probably will still get sidetracked by vidya games or other things.. But as I've mentioned before, I sincerely and truly want to make this project happen, and I guess me just saying that keeps the project in my heart, not to mention the support and offers of help I've been getting now and then. It truly means so much to me that people are interested and eagerly waiting for this project, what started as a little joke and a small idea and is trying it's best to become something decent.

Thank you all so much for your support, spoken or not! <3 I hope I don't disappoint! I'll still be sidetracked with other artworks and things as well, so I hope you'll enjoy those in the meantime, PTAF related or not. Until next time, take care~!