Project Plan: March (Patreon)

Progress in Roya continues! This month will have a similar focus like last month: Pushing more content in Roya. Mostly, this involves on finishing the way north for Winterfall, adding the first dungeon in the Volcano area and further expanding Verdeaux. I will add 1 week of real world corruption scene dev into the mix for some balance.

Finally, as I had announced at the project plan post in January, I want to get get rid of the 5-dev week cycles, like March would have. I will be sort of taking a semi-vacation during the 5th dev week. I call it semi-vacation as I will of course still be doing the release and I plan to do some other minor work. Such as performing important bugfixes and if Emubi finishes a H-CG, to integrate it during this week. Also, I have noticed we got really close to the secondar artist goal this month, should we hit that next month, I will do some recruitment during that week. But other than that, I won't be scheduling any content creation that week and try to improve my work-life-balance thing.

Overall, this gives us the following dev plan for March:

Week 1: You have already seen the hotfixes being pushed out. The Feburary update was fairly big with 3 dungeon areas and 6 lewd scenes, including various complex mechanical passsive effects, as well as whole bunch of other stuff, and of course, more content = more bugs. Besides bugfixing, I also started working on the last dungeon that stands in the way between the player and finishing the way north. It's a cave dungeon, with not too many great gimmicks to be honest. It's a pretty normal dungeon with some bosses to hunt and a big boss at the end. But overall it's a bit more of a "hunting reward area" for getting through the Underwater dungeon.

I plan to do the mapping for the dungeon myself, since our mapper will be busy with the other maps I have in mind, but we might also do some arrangement like me just doing the crude mapping and them doing the beautification. We will see, still need to discuss that kind of workflow with them.

Week 2: Verdeaux, setting up the last major city is the main crux for finishing Chapter 2-B in time. While we are good in terms of mental changes, real world corruption progress and progress on the way North, we are still lagging behind quite a bit in the Verdeaux content. So breathing some more life into the city will be the main focus this week. The last Verdeaux update focused on the Magic Academy and the connected Roland content, this dev week will focus on general store NPCs, both non-lewd, but especially also the lewd ones in the brothel area. I plan to get brothel job started and also setup the erotic book store.

Week 3: To balance out the heavy Roya focus, one week of corruption scene content is planned for this week. The scenes will continue to focus on George-related events; this time we will be continuing the Grades story lines and get to Aura officially giving up to go to Central University with George and instead picking up another (through a mental change) dream job: Becoming a model. Of course, most of these events will further slowly degrade the relationship between the couple. :)

Week 4: The volcano area is not of story relevance, but if you have followed the lore from the Mountainreach villagers, you might have heard of a dragon and some treasure in there. In the face of a 20000 Gold enrollment fee for the Magic Academy,  that is of course an interesting prospect and will give you a pure way of getting over this massive money check. Of course, it won't be easy. :'D

Week 5: For the first time in now a bit over 2 years, I will be taking a vacation week, yay. :'D Thanks for allowing me to reach the point where I can afford to do that! If we hadn't funded Trihan as an assisstant RPGMaker Developer, I would likely have to declare this a backlog week to work on stuff I didn't manage to finish last month.

Art: On the art side, we will be aiming to finish the Homewrecking CGs in March. After that we will be switching to the new Roland scenes. And then in May, I will commission some real world H-CG variations, like Aura holding a phone in the masturbation CG for the new Masturbating 4 event, or adding blonde variations to the various CGs so we can do the blonde hair mental change.

If Emubi keeps up the good speed, we might have time to squeeze in something else into this month, so probably we there will be a H-CG poll for some of the then new scenes.

Overalll, this gives us the following art commissioning plan for the next months:

Writing: Our assistant writer Absurdity will be preparing some scenes for the Brothel Job this month and then over April and May finish writing the Roland events. After that, I plan to have him start on the Roland quests which will involve various Vice choices.

And that's the plan for this month! Now on to carrying it out! Next month, I hope that we have reached some parity between the real world and Roya content again and will be able to have balanced updates again.

Until Friday's prerelease then!