Moving On: Test Mod #2 and Version 0.11 (Patreon)

Let's talk about the rest of 2021.

For the second test mod, I plan to add something a bit more substantial. This is going to hopefully be both a legitimate stress test of the mod support system and some special content exclusive to patrons.

The mod will add a new sub-area in the lake location, similar to the coven in the forest. Like the coven, this area will host a "faction" of sorts. Unlike the coven, which is primarily geared toward lesbian content, this one will be themed around (100% consensual and optional) free-use/public-use content. It will be a convent.

The convent will be a vaguely religious order of priestesses who "serve" the masses, which is a pretty typical hentai/eroge trope. The player character will be able to join the convent, and rise through a few discreet "ranks," earning new activities (and some other features) as they go.

I want to also try to integrate new traits and new general actions into this mod. Basically, I want to hit all the major mod support systems. I also want to make the mod fairly large to test the performance of loading bigger files as mods.

I should stress that all of this content isn't done or even that far along, so I may change some stuff before it releases.

I hope to release this mod before the end of the year, hopefully in the next few weeks. Because of this, v0.11 may not come out until next year, or may be smaller. I'll probably have a poll for patrons on this: whether you'd prefer a small update alongside the convent mod or a larger, more proper v0.11 update later instead. I'm open to doing either, as I intend to keep working on v0.11 alongside the mod anyway.

As far as v0.11 goes, the content will depend on whether I release it sooner or later, obviously, but loose plans are in place. I really think we need a couple of meatier requests, most of the requests over the last two updates have been smaller ones. I also want to add the game's second major romance option, which will be Captain Rais, but that will require lots of art (the hand-drawn art for Rais will come next year at the earliest, but I want him to have renders at least).

As for the story, there are six total paths through chapter 4, which condense at the end of the chapter into three paths, then split off into 2 branches each after that, for six total endings. So the work of actually writing all six paths will be quite a lot, and drag down speed of development a bit. For this reason, I plan to wait for v0.12 and make it like the Homestead update where it's basically all story--if you weren't around for that update or don't recall it, it featured a massive, complex flashback sequence which basically ate up all the dev time, making it a smaller update in terms of scope. 

None of this is set in stone yet, but that's what I'm thinking. To run through it, here are my priorities for the next couple updates:

• Convent mod.
• Rais romance.
• A few good requests.
• Chapter 4.
• Finish mod support and tools.

Anyway, feel free to let me know your thoughts. Talk more soon.