Progress report/teaser (Patreon)

Greetings fellow humans! Here’s another progress report.

The release date. We’ll upload the game on May 30-31 (definitely before you’ll get charged).

I assure you, we’re using everything at our disposal to finish it as quickly as we can, but we could use every extra minute, and so, we’ll use every day we can.

I’m going to talk about the content that it will have at the end of this post.

I can not delay this update. Since I think there was no update for far too long. This development experience has been generally positive for me, I love working on our project and I hate seeing it in this “stagnation” state.

It’s in our own best interests to make updates as quickly as possible and with as much new content as possible, because new updates always put the game “into the spotlight” and bring us more support. This goes without saying, but with more support I will be able to hire more people and/or buy more art from freelancers.

I know that no one really cares about backend, but we desperately need it right now. With this new “groundwork” we will be finally able to move forward, without looking back or worrying about older events . We’ve experimented with quests and events for the last year, and now it’s time to standardize it and make an actual game.

We’ve started doing it back in Autumn of 2018, while simultaneously adding new content. Originally we’ve started doing it to change some dialogue lines of Kira, and to recode the art for a better support of physical changes.

Because I’ve had to layer/edit events for this to work anyways, I’ve decided to redraw them.

Dialogues - written and coded, Character art - drawn and coded, Events - Most of them are, I still have more than enough time to finish redrawing them by the end of this Month.

That was it, the initial plan, and for the most part it’s completed.

Over the course of our rework, things quickly spiraled out of the control, in a sense that we’ve had a lot of other interesting ideas that took our time.

For example:

Using Kira’s character art in events to support every outfit; Making female/male/self gropings a part of Kira’s character art to create random events in the future; Changing how hypnosis works, creating fetish system; Adding “hints”; Merging prisons; Giving the player access to “New You” before prison; Remembering every event to call in art when we’ll need it in the future. And much much more.

The amount of backend stuff, various systems, artwork layers and etc. is extremely overwhelming. Especially since half of the game was coded by me, and other half by Moana.

Some of you saw “party quest” in the last poll, so that was a minor lie, it was actually “party quest: part two”. Yep, it’s finally in, along with some other (hopefully) pleasant stuff.

Important:

I’ve listed everything above for a reason, I’m trying to convey to you the amount of work we did and still have to do. At this moment, the game is still “raw”. We’ve had bugs in releases with just one event and now we’re talking about 30+.

We’re redoing a year worth of work, and I really don’t think we’re ready to publish this monstrosity. There’s still time, but I want to look at this realistically, which brings me to the next part.

We have almost ten days for Moana to test and polish things and for me to finish redrawing events. That said, there’s still a lot of minor stuff that we need to finish. On its own, every task from our “to-do list” is pretty simple, but together they are quite time consuming and it’s easy to get lost in them.

So Here’s our options:

Option A - release everything we’ve managed to do on May 30-31, despite bugs, glitches, crashes and unfinished events.

Option B - Separate new content from the main game and release just it.

To be honest, I’ve already chosen “option B”, because we really need to polish v0.4.5, and we’re already rushing thing out, but I want to hear your opinions.

Regardless of what will happen, there will be an update on May 30-31 (definitely before you’ll get charged).

Thank you for your support and your patience! Here’s another teaser to ease the wait:)

Note: This is work in progress, I’m not yet done with this angle, especially her patient uniform, so everything might change.