Midnight Paradise - Development Update #47 (Patreon)

Hey everyone

I thought a lot about how to make progress reports in these development updates much more tangible. I think I already mentioned it in one of my previous posts. For now, my idea is that each week I'll make a post here with some numbers that are easy to see and follow. I'll put the format below with actual numbers. The format is subject to change in the future, but I think it will be good enough for now.

Since we are using that new project management tool, we have tasks now we can count. You will see a lot of incomplete tasks, but keep in mind tasks vary in size. Meaning some tasks require very little time to complete, while others could take days or weeks. You will also see the total number of tasks increasing, as we add more things to the "To Do List".

On my end, the rendering workflow is on-going and the render counts will keep ramping up as I'm finishing some of the core tasks that require a lot of my time. The hardest part of this massive update is 90% done now, which was planning all the events, the modifications, the new systems and how they would fit together.

We have completed our new event handler system. Since we are adding so much new content and basically revamping the gameplay, this needed to be done. With this new event handler the work to implement scenes into the gameplay and the gallery/scene replay will be much, much faster. Easily cuts time required by 80% which will speed up the overall release process.

Each of the main girls will have 13-15 new activities in the sandbox in the 0.17 update. They will each have various "levels" to them - as you progress and get more Affection Points, you will unlock more of those levels. You will get Affection Points by doing these activities, among other things. (And the activities will be pretty hot, so no grinding needed.)
On average, 8-10 levels for these activities. Depending on the activity and level, these range from mini-scenes to scenes comparable to regular story scenes. If you do some quick math, that might give you an idea about the scope of this update. Then there are the side characters... I'll leave it at that for now.
Currently I'm working on scenes for Joyce. Preview images will be in separate posts from now on.

Now one more thing: We are hiring!

We are hiring a writer for the team. We are looking for someone who can write good and witty dialogue, has professional writing experience and can show us some of their previous works.
English has to be their first language, preferably someone from the US.
If the description fits you and you want to join the team, join our Discord server at https://discord.gg/lewdlab and send a DM to Risael.

Last time we were in need of programmers, posting it to Patreon helped and we managed to hire 2 people. Hopefully we'll find our new team member soon.

Now here are the initial stats. These don't include tasks that have been already completed before we started using the project management tool. I will update this next week.

• Total Number of Tasks: 144
• Incomplete Tasks: 125
• Completed Tasks: 19
• New Tasks added this week: N/A
• Render Count: 194
• Animation Count: 0

Once we hit 0 incomplete tasks the release will be ready. None of the "release when" type of questions will be answered otherwise than with this.

I know it's taking a long time. This is also an update many times the size of a regular one, including a whole redesign of the flow of the gameplay, among a LOT of other things. So, bear with us, please. It will be worth it.

That's all for now and I hope I managed to give you guys some insight with this post.

And as always, huge thanks for all your support!
-Dr Sin