Status update Episode 5 (Patreon)

I spent the week posing statics, writing dialogue, coding script, polishing the game, and more. I estimate that rendering will be completed by the end of next week. I will be spending the next week playtesting and further polishing the update while filling in the gaps missing content.

• Scenes left to write and produce art for: 1
• Static renders left to produce: Less than 100
• Animations left to produce: 0. Waiting for the animation queue to complete.
• Implement Replay gallery and rewards (One scene + testing left)
• Mini-game tutorials
• Music and sound effects for 2 scenes remain.
• Playtest and Quality control (This is the current bottleneck.)

This is going to be a meaty update. I will reveal a preliminary Changelog next week. I was aiming to make the update smaller, but kept packing it with content because I wanted more. Expect the full game (Episodes 1-5) to be ~8.3 GB in size. The patch will be ~2-2.5 GB.

Information regarding the release

I would like to take this moment to give all of you a heads-up before release day.

During the release of the last episode, the distribution was chaotic for me due to the high demand. Download links kept hitting the max limit of downloads for Google drive, consequently resulting in a 24-hour cooldown on my account, and the binary was too big to download using a free MEGA account.

This time it will be easier to avoid these issues since there's a possibility to just download a smaller patch instead of the whole package. This smaller patch can be downloaded through MEGA without a paid account.

If you want to be prepared to download the game as fast as possible on release, please make sure that you have an unmodified Patreon version (v0.4.0, v0.4.1 or v0.4.2) downloaded before the release day.

Then you just have to download the patch and add its content to the "game/" directory with the .rpa files and you can start playing faster.

If this is what you want to do, please prepare for it sooner rather than later. Here is a link to the latest version (v0.4.2), if you need it.

You can, of course, download the big binary too (no patching needed), but your download will be a bit slower since many want to download the game at the same time.

I'll do my best to assist you with any issues during release and I hope you'll have patience with me and the servers during that time.

Have a nice weekend

Dr PinkCake