Project Plan: October (Patreon)

Alright, a little late this month since I wanted to give the polls just a bit more time. And while there are technically a couple more hours on them, I think there won't be a change in trend anymore.

For the polls results we have at the top the votes for the assisstant writer position and below that the votes on the current investment round.

So Absurdity, welcome aboard as the new assisstant writer! For the investment of 4500€ I have decided that even if the Composer didn't get too many votes, I still want to give it a try. If it turns out to be a mistake, we can just reallocate the money to a different budget area

I have also decided on the following investment rounds post the full time goal:

• 5500€: 300€ RPGM Dev. I think an additional RPGM Dev is definitely the next thing this game needs. I noticed it again this week where I wanted to play some catch-up on corruption scenes but ended up having less time than expected because of all the bugfixin. Sadly the 100€ in the current round are just not good enough to get a dev who can significantly deal with this. However, since we are jumping to 300€ investment increments post-5k, this option becomes much more viable.
• 6000€: 300€ Second Artist. Who still remembers this option from a poll a very, very long time ago? Again, since we have much bigger investment increments to work with, at this point we could start addresing out art bottle neck by searching for a second artist. A backdraw with Emubi's art style is that it's a bit generic, but I believe that will come in handy when searching for someone who could emulate his art style well.

And that's it for the larger meta-content. Now, let's have look at what's up this month! The big goal of the month is to hit the 50% mark in the corruption content and in the Roya content.

For the corruption content, there is not a lot missing, it's just a matter of a couple corruption scenes to follow-up on last month's Humanities drain mental changes and then Alicia will be able to flip the "Appearance > Studying" mental change in the Interests room which will mark the 50% point. On the Isekai side, the work load is a bit larger, as I still have to finish the final confrontation against Belphegor to clean up his quest.

A bit more in detail, that vies us the following plan:

Week 1: Mostly bug fixing, some technical work, balancing, I also added one new mental change I will talk about tomorrow and then of course the big UI Overhaul Integration.

Week 2: The real world corruption story line will see Aura's grades drop some more and also we will see some more progress on the Aura and Laura homework project line. I also want to implement the next insertable Knowledge Orb which will be based on Lewd Knowledge. Inserting it will also unlock a new real world Lewd Scene that will wrap up this week.

Week 3: There is one more side quest planned for the first half of the game I need to finish. I did some stub work this week already, but the main dungeon and boss fight still needs to be done. The quest is rather straight forward and simply, but needs to be done as well since there is a fairly major quest reward that can help in the Demon General battles. Which then brings me up to the next item I want to get started on this week. The battle against Belphegor. I will probably not deliver my progress in the prerelease build of that week since I don't think I will be able to finish the final Belphegor confrontation in the remaining days.

Week 4: That will then happen in this week. And then I will wrap up the rest of the Eternal Day of Sloth quest line, including implementing the rewards. This includes in particular implementing Elaine as a skill trainer who will be able to teach you the Light Enhancement spell, which will be fairly important in demon fights, as it will be able to grant you DARK resistance.

Aaand that's it from my side. As you have seen, I have commissioned Emubi to go forward with Hermit 2. After that we will finish up the Hermit CG content and go for Hermit 3. Whether Emubi finishes Hermit 3 this month or at the beginning of the next one, we will need to see.