Status Update #61

Hello there!

This week we've continued filling in the gaps with missing content and placeholders. Mostly things like drawings and alt angle renders for the perspective button that sometimes shows up in the top right. We've also been editing a lewd scene for better consistency and flow. There were also some all around fixes, post-processing of renders and making a new Android test version.

Next week we'll be editing a hotdog scene and implementing some of the planned changes for it. We changed it previously to make it more interactive, and that part now needs some extra love so it makes sense again. It turned into a bit of a mess. The polish has done it again.

How is the update?

"When update?" is becoming very relevant again, and it's in our thoughts daily at this point. Things tend to slow down quite a bit as we move on to the lovely polishing stage that earns us the feedback we often get. At this stage there aren't many "fun" things to show or poll. The things left are mostly technical or spoilers, both of which we'd like to avoid sharing in the status updates. However, the update is currently at over 4k renders and about double that in animation frames for video production.

That's not where the work ends unfortunately. We're always trying to keep the post-production/polishing simple. It's not always super efficient, but the outcome tends to be acceptable. Our approach to this was... quite different before 0.5. And in many ways, the long form we've been trying these past few updates has hindered us a lot. In all honesty, short form might be a better fit for us. And we've got a fix coming up for this, which is that the updates are no longer going to have a set end point that we're working towards. Instead the updates will have simple render-based goals, and you can chain several updates together if you want to wait for more content.

If it is any comfort, the next update will have new sexual content with main girls. The kind that people have been requesting for a while now. We thought it was obvious, but we probably could've made that point more clear. That's our bad, we haven't explicitly said whether you'll get to bang Helen or the others since it's a spoiler. But, reaching the lewd and sexual content has been our goal for 0.7, and that will continue being a goal for the next few updates since that content can be reached within the render goal. So in that sense, the update is doing good. Hopefully it'll play out that way too. And don't worry, there's also some plot for those who don't like girls.

What we've done this week:

• Battled with the Android version

• Placeholder content finished

• Answered a lot of messages

• Sound effect work

• Lists of what's still missing

• Freeplay playtesting

• Phone content testing

• Ember fixes

• Laptop fixes

• Render post work

• New renders

We also cooked up the monthly special of Bree since she dominated the poll this month. It will be up tomorrow.

Cheers and thanks for reading,

Robison & Npx