Dev diary: Foxy, dev. version update, news (Patreon)

Hi guys,

first of all, I'm sorry for letting down every one of you who was looking for a dev version this week - it's not going to happen. I'll put more details 'why' below.

About recent updates in short: Right now I'm spending most of my time every day setting up things for dev update, but there are lots of structural changes both including the current update and the previous ones (I mean I need completely change how keys for Vault Competition worked as well as some other Vault-related events). I've been under heavy stress the last couple of weeks with this update, and it got worse realizing I'm not giving you any content updates (because coding takes all my time and attention) AND I can't finish the dev update in time to ground that this delay happened for a reason. So my point is - if I can't finish and post the dev update today, I better spend today's time doing something I can post and finish. So I'll spend the whole today adding audio for Casey & Toby scene and release that scene today. I think this is the right decision, as posting updates will give me some relief and a feeling of accomplishment.

Okay, about the problem with this update: What we're doing now is a big change of Vault from an empty place to a place with visible (and clickable!) patrons. This change will give us story-related instruments to interact with patrons directly, bringing more stuff as we add patrons as Vault popularity goes up. The side effect is it takes a lot of changes to existing story coding (remember that 'Toby is sitting alone' dialog was triggered by Casey when doing her main shift - now this will change into Toby actually sitting alone after Casey's shift is done and before she finishes up her working day she can now go speak to Toby and trigger her actions with him. The same started for "tuna threesome" is not a dialog option anymore - but the player will actually see Tuna & Arnie sitting at the bar at the end of Casey's shift and clicking them starts the event) - despite it sounds like a small change it needs whole lots of story keys being changed and tested. And all this is in addition to the 'Vault Special' story that happens after Vault Competition. This change is not only about coding stuff, but we're actively re-drawing the Vault and drawing the guest - I'm looking forward to updated Vault and visible & clickable Toby, Arnie, and Dough already in the final release of v4. (in the dev update they will be represented by black boxes with names).

I know all these delays don't look good from your point of view, but trust me that we will roll out lots of stuff in the coming dev update including new scenes, lots of old voiced scenes, music, better mechanics.

P.S. Some Foxy (working name, feel free to propose yours) sketches are added. We've already clarified concepts for her outfits and I'll be posting new stuff as I see it myself.