Progress Report (Patreon)

Howdy, here’s what’s up:

We’re still at the “editing and saving” stage, which is a new stage of development, and it’s the first time that we’ve actually faced it. Moving forward this will be the final stage of any update creation, because it is the last thing required. While I’m busy with it, Moana is testing things out even further. This update has a lot of alternative text and art, so it’s quite easy to make a mistake, and as you might remember we made a ton of mistakes in our last release.

When we did “new you” content for our last update it was a bit different than now, because back then I was drawing and redoing a ton of events, and it wasn’t clear to me how much of my time editing took. This is truly the first time we’re creating an update using our new systems.

The good news is that this groping pose that I’m currently editing will also be used in a ton of places, including the farm. So this work that we’re doing right now is pretty important for the game overall and should save us a lot of time in the future, starting with the farm.

We also forgot to give you stats for the choices that you can make, and we need at least 5 minutes to actually think how much Lust and Fame our new events should give.

To quicken this up I did some cuts, but you didn’t even know that I planned to include what was eventually cut for time.

So things like new posters (for movies, androids, propaganda), dialogue with “soon to be rich man” in his office, random encounter with Kira’s “coworker” from before she lost her memory, inner thoughts at the shower, references to Kira’s appearance beyond the gym (body writings references) and much more. I was doing all of that, but dropped due to the lack of time, we’ll have to add this in future updates.

This update is really big and complex, and we sure made some mistakes while making it:

Content wise, it should’ve been split into four parts and released each month, but we were developing it without a clear plan, so it wasn’t really possible. Basically every time one of us had a cool idea - we went on and made it, instead of thinking about how much time it would take. .

We also had a lot of complications that took a ton of our time - Approximately two weeks were spent on the artbook (which had all art from v0.1 to 0.4.6), two weeks for holidays, two weeks for sick days, and I have no clue how much time I spent on writing the farm script (which is currently 60 pages long, but still not finished). I also started to draw new art for our patreon page, but dropped it midway.

The game became really complex, and we’re now working harder than we ever did. Things like alternative text and art unfortunately require extra time - to make up for this time, we’re adding repeatable events and gropings system, so you would always have something to do in defenestration.

We’ll try to make things differently with the farm, and we will spend a couple of days on planning it through, so you could get more frequent updates.

And in the future I will hire extra help, because we are really over our heads right now. I can only imagine how hard it must be for Moana to code in all my crazy ideas and keep the game from crashing every five seconds. And I myself have to do three different jobs - writing, drawing and managing. Clearly I’m not good at the last one, but I will do everything I can to improve.

I can't even show you anything new, because all of my time went towards the editing of what I’ve already drawn and shown.

Everything is already written, drawn, coded and even tested. There’s only two remaining issues that I consider mandatory for 0.4.7 - We need to place stats, and I still need some time to edit minor details for the gropings poses (tattoos, piercings and writings, etc.). So we just need to finish working on the tiny things and then it will finally be over. Again, I believe it will just take a couple of days, but I’m always wrong - that’s why we no longer have any release dates.

Thank you all for your patience and support, we’re doing our best to finish this as soon as we can and I honestly believe that the end is near!