Project Plan June

 The sprint towards the Corruption Ending continues! I will start off with some negative news; we will definitely not be making the October release date. We would have needed to finish all the events so that we could do the Corruption Ending in the first weeks next month.

I used the last week the create the detailed concept for the remaining events and technically there are only about 20 left - but of those 5 are major lewd scenes which take like 4-5x as long to create as a regular scene. On the other hand, it's looking really good that we will have all the events leading up to the ending done by the end of next month!

With the art delay we had over the past months, it's also become highly doubtful that our artist would have been able to finish all the artwork by October, so (slight cope :'D) I don't think the delay on my side matters too much in the big picture and we would have just ended up having to wait for the artwork to finish.

I will do a roadmap post once I finish the corruption ending and with that have the master list of necessary 2D assets for 1.0 and then give an official update to the 1.0 release date. Currently my idea is that we finish the Corruption Ending in August, do a 1.0-beta release in December and then the offical 1.0 release in January. But more details on this in August.

Now, let's jump into the new content this month!

Week 1: We continue the Earth corruption events! Last month we really focused hard on the events that involved Aura's rise in popularity to get to that 100k fans goal, this month we progress on the other two questions whose prerequisites can already be fulfilled.

I will be starting with the Submission >= 60 one today, which will then unlock the Cheerleading Game scene I talked about at the end of last month. Then we will be doing a couple of scenes involving the other cheerleaders. Time for another Lunchbreak where Aura updates her rating of Richard and Patricia to follow up on her disovery.

Finally, this one depends a bit on artist progress speed, Rose will come back, ready to compete again with Aura over Richard!

Week 2: A certain event in the competition between Aura and Rose will also connect into the George storyline, giving him some more despair and suffering, yay! The Aura and Rose competition storyline will hopefully be concluded in this week through a threesome sex scene with Richard which will also get a repeat version and alternate with the Aura x Richard default repeat scene. This should just give a minor boost in variety.

I had some ideas on Richard also giving some demands to Aura to perform some betrayal actions in Roya so she can receive the "privilege" of receiving dick over Rose, but I feel like that might be a bit too complicated. Maybe another of the many candidates for v.2.0 content.

Week 3: Then it's going back to Roya continuing Charlotte's corruption storyline! The first event didn't get to any real lewd, but this time Victor can start making Charlotte's his. I'm not sure how far I will get with the event chain this week. Ideally so that we can finish off the event chain with one more week investment in July.

Week 4: And then the format of Technical Week we used to have will return with a slightly different name - Polish Week. Originally, I wanted to start with these kind of weeks only after the Corruption Ending, but since the October releas date won't work out anyways, I want to use this week give our freelancers a bit room to catch up while I work on some improvements that don't progress the content. Also the past two months have shown me that several weeks of writing focus are really hard for me to pull off so having a non-writing week before we head into July would also be beneficial for me.

I'm not sure which points exactly I want to tackle in this week. Currently I have scheduled to rework the Knowledge Room mental changes a bit where I have come to dislike their concept of needing 2 mental change actions to trigger an effect. Another thing I would like to do as our pixel artist is finishing the uniforms, is to create some visual progression on the Library Club members. E.g. start them all out with the uniform and as Aura pressures them, they get dyed hair, other clothes, etc.

There are also a bunch of other little things I have been meaning to tackle for a while. And also since Week 1 and 2 are really packed, I fear I might need some time to finish off a scene or two I didn't manage to get done, so the week also doubles a bit as a buffer week. I will see which items make the cut for the week when I do the detailed work planning at the start of this week.

That's my plan for the week. On the freelancer side we have

RPGMaker Dev

Trihan started with the Liliana quest stub at the very end of last month and well basically, progressing there is going to be his main focus this month.

Art 

I just gave Emubi a list of various minor assets I would need. Like additional facial expressions on Rose, Laura, enlarged breast version for Charlotte, etc. I also gave a slight priority bump to the H-CG modifications for lewd streaming since I think that one would be an easy win.
Other than that, we will follow the art plan and after that go into the Dark Star Knightess character art needed for the ending.

Pixel Art

I already posted the new uniform asset, the other pixel art project for this month is a proper Luciela pixel sprite. So I don't have to use the default Harpy sprite for her on-map representation lol :'D

After that I guess we might consider giving Aura a pixel art update?! I have grown so used to her sprite so it's hard for me to imagine but I definitely would like her form after receiving the collar to be more in-line with her 2D art.

Aaaaaand that's it for the month! Lots of lewd content planned overall. And the corruption ending getting one step closer!