The water is great! (Patreon)

Hey all!  I think most of you will have had a chance to play the latest build by now containing the start of book 4's love route, so I'm gonna talk about it for a bit. If you haven't and really don't want to know anything about it, this is the point where you can stop reading and start again when the font isn't italic anymore.

You've finally been able to shag old Katara in all her oldyness! You did didn't you? Youth potions are for pansies : ) !  I say finally because I've wanted to add such a scene for a loooong time.  I've been talking about it in various forms, Sometimes as a joke, but more recently as a poll option for one of the extra scenes during the final build for the slave route. 

Maybe you already expected we'd include the option during book 4 and even expected it to happen way earlier. It did happen during book 4's slave route at the end, but that was more of a joke with just a few nude idles

Surprisingly I haven't seen anyone express their horror over our addition of old Katara sex! I was expecting at least one person to ask us if it was really necessary to have granny sex included, even if it's just optional and not forced upon you.

Perhaps playing FET has slowly expanded/eroded the limits of what you can deal with : ) ?  All I can say is...  that scene with her old self is a personal milestone of mine. 

I knew I was going to do it waaaaaay back when we started FET and to finally have reached that part is a small victory for me. Quite frankly, there were times I wasn't entirely certain we'd make it to this point.

We're usually rather tight lipped when it comes to telling you what you can expect in the future, but just let me tell you that OF COURSE we can't let you have fun with just old Katara and not another old love interest too. I've been working on her scene the last week. Oh and no that won't be present in the next build. I'm already working on parts of future builds for this route(currently drawing a new map!) When I work too long on the same thing I can't see mistakes anymore so I need to change the stuff I work on and let the scenes "rest" so I can look at it again later with fresh eyes. 

Realizing this will be the final route for FET makes me equal parts happy and sad. I love mucking about in the avatar world and that won't necessarily be over once FET's done, but at the same time it'll be really nice when at least the routes are done. But let's not get ahead of ourselves, we're still just at the beginning of this route and there's still the final chapter to tie stuff together. Plenty of things left to do before  "the end" will roll across the screen.

Last weekend I sent some more stuff(the final bits for the next build) to Cbob for the next build. Don't ask me when that'll be ready though. We do our best to keep it all going at a nice pace, but estimating this stuff and have it ready in nice evenly spread dates has proven to be more and more difficult over time. Love routes are generally speaking more of a challenge to do anyway. We're still aiming for an end of the month release, but at the same time... don't be too surprised if we won't make it.

I feel somewhat pressed for time since I haven't been working at top efficiency.  There's just times when drawing feels like a constant uphill battle. You get stuff done, but nowhere near your normal speed and these last weeks are such a time. Annoying but it happens from time to time.  I've finished everything which needed to be finished, but not all to my satisfaction.

It'll be nice when we're further along the route and I can start the more hardcore stuff for more characters. No worries though, the next build will have it's fair share of "hide the dick". I'm also using a new option which we couldn't use during the earlier routes. Saying more would spoil it, but it'll give me a bit more creative freedom without breaking the "rules" of the avatar universe.

I've also been trying out some different ways of "inking" the characters(again). I like to try and stay close to the original designs of the cartoon, or at least as much as my abilities allow me to. Now the cartoon has little to no varying line width when it comes to their character lines and I've been trying to mimic that, but it really doesn't look that nice when I do it. This is one of those regularly returning pet peeves I have. I'd like to have it all look like the cartoon but I simply don't have that skill.

Oh, I've also finally bought the non-frankenstein version of that mouse with a freely moving mousewheel! You might remember me messing about with a mouse, putting it together using parts of two broken ones. Well, I think it was starting to short circuit because it stopped working sometimes. Putting it in another usb port would fix it for a short while, but that's hardly a real solution.  My frankenmouse was literally put together using tape so... not too surprising. 

I bought a new one (like a normal person immediately would've done) and been using it for a while without problems. It's a logitech mx400 and meant for right handers(couldn't find its left handed version). I'm left handed when it comes to using a mouse but I had gotten used to using a right handed version since  my frankenmouse was also a righthander and haven't experienced problems despite of that so I figured I'd just get the exact same version. I don't think I'll ever want a mouse without a free rolling wheel again when given the choice!  

I'm trying to come up with anything more to say but there really isn't much interesting to mention. Me and cbob are just slowly chipping away at the next build, trying to make it as funny/sexy as we can. So instead of more text here's a pic of Korra,Asami and Kya!

And Toph.  She'll only go in till the water reaches her ankles.

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