Rovering to Sussex - Devlog #7 - Bonus images, achievements & release date! (Patreon)

Welcome to this devlog on Rovering to Sussex. We're getting really close to the release of the first chapter, so check out the release date announcement at the end of this post. Before that, I want to talk a little more about the bonus images and achievements.

Bonus images

I've mentioned bonus images before, but I want to give you a little more detail on what to expect. I've also shown you this screenshot of the bonus gallery before:

Each of the buttons you see is a set of bonus images and in each set, you have to unlock each image individually.

Most sets are unlocked by playing the phone minigame where you have to unlock the images of one set in sequence, starting with the easiest level and working your way up to the most difficult one. These image sets consist of around five images each corresponding to the five levels of the minigame. But what are the images about? They are not tied directly to the game, but are completely optional for you to unlock, and they show the characters of the game in unusual situations. Each set is one scene with some particular setting and often tells a little story. These scenes are tame for the first chapter(s), since we want you to have a chance to get real encounters with the girls in question before spoiling them in these fantasy images. In later chapters, the scenes will often be more lewd, though. Some scenes might include an image or two that are linked to the fetishes we talked about [earlier](https://link-to-our-fifth-devlog), but they will respect your settings. So if you opted out of some of the fetishes, you won't get to see these images. You will not even notice them missing, because for you, the image set will just be shown to have fewer images in total.

One more thing that you can see blurred out in the image above is the buttons on the left: They allow you to filter the image sets to only show those that have images of your favorite girl. We have the same system in place for the replay gallery where you can replay the lewd scenes. There you can additionally filter by fetishes, which is something that we don't (yet) have for the bonus image gallery here since as said above, image sets will usually have only one or two fetish images and you can hide them using the fetish content settings.

There are two more special bonus image sets (actually, there will be only one for the first chapter, the second will be added later) that work a little differently. You unlock the images in these sets by completing the quizzes and minigames that are part of the game. If you chose to never play quizzes or minigames, these image sets will be hidden. Again these are fantasy images showing the characters of the game in some situation that you won't see in the game itself, but you can unlock each image independently of the others, so if you don't complete the first quiz, you can still unlock the second image by completing the second quiz, etc.

Don't feel pressured to unlock any of these images, though. They are meant to provide some more ways to interact with the game than just playing it linearly and they allow us to get more creative in the situations that we put our characters into, but they are by no means necessary to enjoy the game.

Achievements

Again, we've already shown you the achievements gallery before:

But what are these achievement? Each achievement is coupled to doing something in the game. Most often, this means you have to explore different paths of the game, but in some cases a single action might unlock an achievement. Only once you unlocked an achievement, you will see its name and the condition that unlocked it. Each achievement comes with a single image as a reward for you. These images once again show the game's characters in some situation that is linked to the achievement and may be lewd or just funny.

You will only find two achievements to be unlocked in the first chapter of the game, but many more will follow later on. And the actions you take even in the first chapter might influence whether you can unlock some of the later achievements as well.

Unlocking achievements is meant to provide you with some incentive to look at different paths in the game and try all the things that are there, but like the bonus images, don't feel any pressure to go for them.

Release date

By now, I hope you are eager to hear about when you will be able to play the first chapter of Rovering to Sussex. But since I only had screenshots here that you already saw way back in the first devlog, I'll take the chance to reveal another character first, Katie:

But when now will you be able to interact with her, Catherine, Rachel and the others that we haven't revealed yet? Sooner than you might have thought, because you have just read the last devlog before the release of the very first chapter of Rovering to Sussex! 

It will be available for you just six days from now, on Friday, July 1st. And even better, this first chapter will be released for all tiers immediately. 

Later chapters will follow the same release model as Young Again, with early access for the different tiers.

I hope you are as excited about getting the game into your hands as we are getting it out to you.

See you next time!
RFB