Progress report (Patreon)

There is an unspoken rule in the business world “underpromise and overdeliver”, and it looks like we, in Fresh Princesses inc. (trademark pending), have adopted the exact opposite of that as our main strategy.

We didn’t manage to finish the update in time, yet again

Honestly, every time I’m announcing the release date - both me and Moana believe that we will manage, I can’t say have many sleepless nights we’ve spent finishing it, and yet it is still not quite there.

What I’ve said in my previous post is true, Moana is leaving for a week and I was so firm on releasing it regardless of its state mostly because of her short-term departure.

The thing is, she has no means of working on the game from where she’s headed, and I wouldn’t want to bother her anyways, so here we are.

She did manage to finish most of the things, but both of us forgot that this update is different, and so some small details still need our attention.

For example:

Some outfits previously had one layer for their “back” part (things that player should not see, pieces that connect Kira’s body with the outfit) and one layer for the hand. I’ve drawn and saved them together in v0.4.5 which has resulted in occasional “placeholders” appearing on the screen - this is a tiny thing that completely slipped my mind, and now once I’ve got my hands on the game - I can see it again.

For every outfit there’s 10 versions of Kira’s chest and 3 of her hips, our revised character art for v0.4.6 has it done in an entirely different way, and so this tiny thing turns out to be really time-consuming.

There’s a lot of stuff like that all over the place, this thing is insanely big and still requires some polishing.

I don’t think I will be able to fix all of the bugs on my own without Moana, but I sure can fix everything art-related, including, but not limited to, a Matreshka-bot that we will let you have in v0.4.6 (It will make sense later).

I sincerely apologise for the mess I’ve created with our schedule, but it wasn’t from ill-intentions, I honestly believed we could pull this off until the last minute. Once v0.4.6 drops we will revise our whole way of doing things, and fix our time-prediction issue. The next attempted date of release is simply “this week”.

I’d post another teaser, but I feel like I’ve already spoiled too much, and I’m almost done with this update. “I just need a little more time to work on the areolas” - James Cameron on his avatar sequel.