Hello there you wonderful and extremely cute people!
Another week, another progress update!
Finally I have better news to share. Even though writing is kinda difficult at the moment for me, I'm making very good progress on the renders for Chapter 2 of the prequel. I think I'm already about 65% done with the renders needed, which is pretty good news since the renders usually take some time after I'm done writing. Switching over to focus more on rendering definitely helped with getting some more stuff to put in dialogues, so that is also a plus, I think. Todays render is Rei at the home of the MC, blushing. Something very interesting happened before this and it's going to be a fun event overall which will have long lasting impact on the game in general. I know I was pretty confident with releasing Chapter 2 in october and I doubt it'll work out, but I can guarantee you 1000% that Chapter 2 for the prequel will release in november.
Once Chapter 2 is out I will focus more on My New Family 2 in the hopes that by the time I'm ready with a first release there, that I can continue to work on Chapter 4 of the main game. If I still don't have my assets back by then I will use the remade charakters with some adjustments and release Chapter 4 like this because I'm getting kinda tired of seeing everything "go to shit" because of some state attorney(s) that just decide to ignore our requests. I also see and feel your frustration regarding this, and I feel like I made the wrong decision with waiting so long. Still, I want to focus on finishing Chapter 2 of My New Memories: The Beginning and then shift over to My New Family 2, since I really underestimated the demand for it. I also want to "bring back" players that have no real interest in the prequel and mainly stayed for My New Memories or My New Family 2.
So, overall I'm happy with my progress but I'm also feeling and seeing the frustration regarding the decisions I made these last 2 years. I'm really sorry for this, I still think it's the right decision to keep pondering the state attorney(s) and hope for them to finally return at least my assets, but I will eventually shift over to my backup plan and use the remade characters. Like some of you already said, there is always the option to "switch back" once I have them back. Re-rendering takes way less time if I have the scenes already set up.
And I think thats it for now. If I hear anything worthwhile sharing I'll let you guys know as soon as possible again. Thank you again for your continous support, no matter what. Stay awesome!