Dev update (Patreon)

Hi folks,

Just an update on what's been going on the past couple of weeks and some plans for the next few weeks.  As always, if you have any questions or comments, please let me know in the comments below or send me a DM.

One thing to note: The android version for episode 24 was uploaded a few days after the official release. I mentioned it in comments, but didn't post a separate update about it, so some of you might have missed it (apologies).  It's in an android folder in the official release locations (google and MEGA). Here is the post with the links:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-24-89896325

Remember: The android version is an unofficial version, so the apk file was not created by me.

Current priority: Working on the early episodes re-do.  As mentioned previously, this means a full overhaul of the artwork.  (Re-doing all the art, plus adding a lot more images, plus adding animations). It also involves a lot of edits/improvements to the original script and will also include some new scenes and some additions to existing scenes.  There will be plenty of other features / tweaks to give the player a bit more control. For example:  Can indicate early if you are not interested in a particular woman (or women) and in those cases, this will avoid any unwanted advances and the character will behave differently. And of course, it will have music and sfx. Plenty of other tweaks too and I'll provide more info over the next few weeks. From an artwork perspective, we are currently up to episode 7/8 on the re-do, but this is a first pass and we may end up scrapping some stuff and re-doing again (always ends up happening after a first pass).  And we also need to do quite a lot of error correction and post-work (photoshop work, etc.).  We also skipped a few scenes, so will need to go back to those...we also have to add some new scenes and extend others.  And we only have a small handful of animations done, so will need to do a lot more.  But overall, I'm very happy with the amount of art that has been re-done so far this year.  Initial plans was for the re-do to cover episodes 1-9, but (will make a decision in the next couple of weeks), we may extend this to episode 10. More details to come, once we start finalizing each scene and deciding that we are 100% happy and Cell / I agree that no further tweaks are needed.

So... what have I been up to since episode 24 was released?

Week 1:  The usual after any release. ...Fixing minor items based on feedback from everyone after they have played the game (nothing game-breaking, thankfully...just minor typos, etc.).  And helping people out who had technical difficulties (ahem... user error), downloading the game, figuring out which version they want/need, getting it to run, general PC  / folder related queries, :)   And also gathering feedback on episode 24 to see what hit, what missed, what people liked, etc.

On that note:  If you haven't already done so, please let me know below what YOU did like, what you didn't.... what scenes were a hit, what scenes were a miss. What you would have liked to see more of... what made you want to claw your eyes out... etc.  (So, expect episode 24 spoilers in the comments section).

Week 2: Went AWOL from WTHI for most of week 2 as I had a real-life job work-trip, so was away from home, so didn't get much WTHI work done (Cell as always was keeping the WTHI flag flying).

Week 3 (Last week): I had a week off from my real-life job, so worked double time on WTHI (on the Re-do), so got through a sizeable chunk of work on it.

Cell was continuously working on the re-do artwork throughout the duration (and for all of last month too, while I was finishing episode 24).

I haven't done any work on updating the walk-through, but it is on my to-do list.  Will figure out when I will jump back onto it.

For the rest of this month, the plan is to continue to work on the re-do.  Early next month, I will have a much better indication of how much work is required to complete the re-do, so I will make some decisions on plans for episode 25 versus re-do and keep you all in the loop.  I'm currently mulling over a couple of options as to how to tackle episode 25 to try to avoid an excessive wait time before we catch up on everyone, but will provide more details on that once I've had a bit more time to think of it.  But just to re-iterate... the current focus at the moment is on the re-do.  More info to follow and I'll post weekly updates throughout November, along with sample images and may also look for some inputs on items I am pondering, so expect some polls.

Thanks,

CG