The Upcoming Version 0.35 & Patreon Updates! (Patreon)

Hey everybody,

I have somewhat of a mixed announcement to start with, but I want to say that it shouldn’t really impact the release schedule. A long story short, I’m working a few more hours at my day job each week, but I have recently purchased some upgrade parts for my computer! This means that, while I will technically be working less on Superheroes Suck, I should be able to still put out the same amount of content. It’s just that, instead of hardware being the bottleneck on my progress, it will now be time taken up by my current employment. I have updated my Patreon goals to better reflect these changes – really I just removed the goals that included computer upgrades. Also, animations are the way forward! With the new equipment, all future H-scenes will be animated!

The next iteration of the game to released will be version 0.35. The reason I’ve titled it this way is, because with the new upgrade parts my computer has, I am finally able to go back and fix some of the things I couldn’t before – namely the introduction. The original introduction is bad, and you don’t need to sugarcoat it for me. The previous render times were so terrible that each scene took 2 hours to complete, and so I couldn’t afford to spend much time out of the more optimized environments like the Academy. Getting to the Academy, from start to finish, was a month long ordeal before I released version 0.10. Nightmarish. Don’t worry, though, the new Introduction is planned to have some interesting content: so it shouldn’t be a slog you just need to skip through.

I will also be spending this release cycle on fleshing out the Academy itself, namely placing the girls on the map and having more interactions with them. As of version 0.30, I feel now that the game has enough story content with all of the main heroines that I need to go back and flesh out their minor encounters: seeing them in the library, the gym, the kitchen, and seeing how your progress with them changes over the course of the game. This is another thing I couldn’t do with my old hardware, as rendering anything but the gym took ages – consequently why so many scenes take place in it!

As a last note, you should all be seeing some teaser images for the upcoming patrols! The new banner shows off the future costumes, and the a little bit of the direction that the game will be going in. Patrols should be the major focus in version 0.40, once all of the foundations have been put in place. Also, please don’t feel like 0.35 is a placeholder: there will be a lot of new content in it, just like I have had for previous releases, they’re just not going to be major story set-pieces.  

Let me know what you guys think of the game so far and its direction!

~ Solace