Progress Report (Patreon)

 Howdy! I’m here with another progress report. 

I’m still drawing npcs, and Moana is polishing things, testing out the events/outfits with all possible physical changes, and coding in worldbuilding text that I’ve written a while ago, but we couldn’t implement due to our usual time issues. 

Npcs - librarian, janitor, dorm commandant, salesmen (hair salon, market, clothes shop) and receptionists (all three of them) will all have an artwork in this update. Which drastically reduces the time I’ll need to spend on npc art in the future.  

I’ve also created a different type of an android that will appear near the “massage” building in a residential area to advertise it, and a mannequin android for hair and piercing shops. 

This was a plan all along, but I didn’t initially intend to draw them for this update - I’ve drawn them because I needed just one for the shop, and decided to do them all since I’ve started. 

I still need to finish male version of the android (I’m doing it now) and draw job-related clothes for the androids (hospital, market, etc.), the remaining time will be spent on more world-building. 

Even though you can guess at which date we’re aiming and what I mean by “remaining time”, I still won’t announce the date for our usual reasons. 

At the beginning of February I will make a public post announcing that all of our patrons who left the project during the course of the last two month can DM me and receive a link to the upcoming update.

We’re still working on it and adding things to it, not because we want to stretch time or are looking for excuses, we’re working on it - because if we won’t do this now, we’ll do it in three month (best case scenario). 

The size of the farm will require an enormous amount of time, and it would be nice if we already had some npc’s drawn. 

 It all started because I did a shop interface two weeks ago and we wanted to implement it to all our shops. You can see it on the teaser below:

 But, for the hair salon and augs shop it didn’t quite work, due to the nature of the products they sell. Plus, we wanted you to see how piercings or hairstyles will look on your current Kira before purchasing it.

We could’ve just shown you your current Kira with a piercing/hair without any explanation - but it felt lazy and boring, so I’ve written some hopefully funny text for it and decided to create the mannequin android to show you a projection of how Kira will look. 

So shops that sell items will have an interface, and shops that sell appearance will show you a small animation of said android turning into your current Kira. 

Clothes shop will remain the same - with a changing room and a mirror ,since it’s there for a reason (we have events planned for it). 

 You can see some female versions of our androids on the picture above. 

There’s two reasons behind their existence: 

First one is their convenience - We want our game to feel populated, but we have limited time and resources, so we can’t afford to constantly draw minor characters like vendors, residents, etc.  Androids have the same face, so we can add as many of them as we want/need.

Second reason is “Movies” quest - Obviously Kira is not the only actress in the city, and our androids have a face of the most popular one. You will be able to meet said actress when we’ll add Mosfilm back (after the farm), and she will play a major role in the quest. 

P.S: There will be a poll to determine how she will look - normal or like a bimbo. 

We’re creating this game out of passion and we hope that in the end this buggy mess will become something beautiful. I still need more time to finish the npc art which we require for this and upcoming updates, while Moana could really use more time to test things through. 

The game needs both interface and npc art, and it’s better to do this now, when we need them, instead of “saving it” for later and never doing it again (as usual). The list of things that we’ve “saved” for later is already too big. 

I fear that you will jump to wrong conclusions and get angry with us, because of how long we've been working on it, so I’m going to repeat myself here:

At the beginning of February I will make a public post announcing that all of our patrons who left the project during the course of the last two month can DM me and receive a link to the upcoming update.

We have a ton of new content to come, and the only thing we’re struggling with - is time. One of the major reasons behind this delay is the fact that I’ve spent a good amount of time writing for the farm, and once the gym update will be up - I will talk more about it.

Thank you all for your support and patience! I assure you that the end is near!