New tiers are live! + Status update (Patreon)

New Tiers information

Let's start with the most important information. The new patron tiers are now live! I hope that the transition worked smoothly for you. If you notice something weird on the Discord server or here on Patreon, I'm interested in getting your feedback ASAP.

Those who are affected the most by this change are the Superstar patrons; that tier is now gone and replaced with the $25 Huge DIK tier. Please check out the new tiers and their rewards on the main page to decide if you want to raise or lower your pledge. This is the last time I will mention this.

Acting Lessons with Extras and the walkthrough are now available for +$10 patrons. I have removed the base version of the game as there only will be one version of Acting Lessons in the future.

Status update

Now to the fun news! The status update for Episode 1. 

What a week it's been! I took a couple of days off to celebrate Christmas with my family, but other than that I've been able to work full time on the game, as I'm on vacation until January 7. Aside from New Years Eve, I plan on working 12-18 hours daily on the game.

This week, I have done so many things with the framework and design that I think you all will enjoy. I reworked a lot of renders to increase the quality further, but I've also rendered new animations and static renders.

I continued to plan and outline the story. When doing so I came to the conclusion that I need another romanceable character, so I created her. Her name is Jill and I will wait to reveal her design until Episode 1 is close to launch. But I'm fairly positive that the majority of you will like her a lot.

Being a DIK is already getting big in binary size. Right now, it's about 580 MB and I compress the images as I go.

The soundtrack, this far, consists of 33 songs!

21 animations have been completed (a total of 2 minutes and 3 seconds of unique animations)!

I'm still not sure of the best way to report the render count, so I'm just going to throw out a number that represents less than what it seems (as I animate some scenes in Ren'Py). The current render count is by this new standard 511.

If we speak of actual frames that I've rendered, since the start of this project, I'm somewhere around 3300 renders (2830 animated frames + 511 static renders). And the kicker is, I'm about 50% done with Episode 1. Yeah, this Episode will be bigger than anything I've ever done before.

I don't know when the first Episode will be released. I'm aiming for February, but you know how difficult it's been to predict release dates for me in the past.

I want the first release to be a perfect start and offer you a good amount of content.

I also want it to have a solid framework that will give me the foundation to bring you updates faster in the future.

On January 1st I will hold the first ever animation poll, where you patrons will use your votes to decide which sexual act gets featured in multiple animations of Episode 1.

As this is the last post of 2018 I wanted to express my gratitude for your support! 2018 was the year that Acting Lessons was created and completed.

2019 will be the year when you enroll at Burgmeister & Royce in "Being a DIK"...

...it will be the year when you pledge the DIKs...

...it will be the year when you get to know the rival Jock fraternity, the Tri-alphas...

...it will be the year when you'll fight for the attention of the HOT (Eta Omikron Tau) sorority...

...and much much more!

I'm extremely excited to start this new adventure with you all.

Have a great remainder of 2018 and a wonderful New Years Eve!

I'll see you on the other side!

Cheers

Dr PinkCake