September Poll Results + October Plans (Dev build slightly delayed!)
Added 2025-10-03 18:59:51 +0000 UTCThe results are in, and in a pretty undisputed victory Scene 7 was the winner! So later in the game, you can look forward to giving the weakest links of Alice's clique a special room to share.
That also means that Cassidy and Elly will be banned from being used in suggestions for the next two polls, joining Leah on the bench! Additionally, I think I'm also going to restrict player-pred multiprey scenes from being in the next round of suggestions at least--it's something that hasn't even happened in game yet (hence all suggestions with it being for week 3) and is meant to be a rarer, more niche type of scene, but 2 out of the last 3 poll winners have featured it. Don't want too much of it piling up in advance!
In other news, as I posted about earlier I'll be working on a Halloween project this month instead of SMVA, and billing has been paused until November!
With my own interest leaning that way and a strong majority of responses in the poll being at least ambivalent, if not encouraging, towards shifting focus to that this month, I'm moving ahead with my Halloween plans! I'm excited to get to work on that and hope you'll all enjoy the update when it releases, there's some exciting stuff in the works! :)
On a related note though, the dev build originally scheduled for today will be delayed a couple days! Don't worry, it's still coming soon (should be done by the end of the weekend)! But, I want to make sure I fully finish the scene I promised instead of leaving you on an incomplete cliffhanger for a month before returning to SMVA. The delay comes from a time management issue not any writing struggle--I still hadn't reached out to artists about the Halloween project like I wanted to and had to divert to getting everything ready and rolling there ASAP to make sure those that want to contribute have the full month to work. Sorry about that!
