Hello!

It's another hot summer Friday. Phew. Grab some ice cream before settling down to read this week's progress update.

The release went reasonably well. A couple of typos and an image with some clothes clipping into Miko were reported. Those will be fixed in the next update. handful of new supporters also dropped in. Welcome. Much love!

So what am I working on now? Well, Beth of course. To be specific, the script for the next, entirely Beth-centric update. I did a little poll on content for it, and this was the result (Patreon+Subscribestar):

1. All of the above (the below,3-9).
2. A glimpse of some other girl.
3. Riding creampie.
4. Backdoors creampie.
5. Licking them balls.
6. Take Beth for a walk with no pants (I didn't specify who!)
7. But bring them handcuffs.
8. Some finger banging action.
9. Hawk tuah. No love for the meme.

No surprises really, except I thought the hawk tuah would get more votes for shits and giggles. So how large will the next update be? Originally I had planned the part for each girl for the last update would be 100-150 renders, but it ended up at 200 on average for the others, so 200 is our floor.

I'm writing on the script and it can give a clue. It's a very rough way to count, but the latest update had a script file of 130k and 596 renders. So, maybe 20k per 100 renders, or thereabouts. I'm currently at 30k and not near the finishing line, so 200+ renders are a given. Perhaps I'll shoot for 300. I'd like to release it in July, but that's also a big wish list up there to cover. There will almost certainly be some sex-scene-split-paths to the joy of Awaken.

Okay, enough of that, I do want to talk about two people. Joe Biden and Donald Trump. JUST KIDDING.

First of all, Sandra. She received a healthy amount of hate in comments. Good I say, mission accomplished as this was the first thing I wanted to achieve with her. A bitchy, spoiled girl with a killer body. I guess that wasn't so difficult.

The challenge will be to steer it from here into someone you desire - someone you want to seduce or dominate, someone the player wants to get lewd with in various ways.

And then the third step, someone who will be missed when she dies in a fire (kidding, or?).

Secondly, Charles. Ah, Charles.

He was never going to last, I knew that from the start. We need the house for the later parts of the game. That he's moving to Alaska wasn't the original plan though, and I'll tell you right here and now what was:

I had two thoughts. The first was that he'll be killed by bad guys gunning for the MC. I dropped this idea fairly early as I didn't like the implications and what it'd do to the MC's state of mind, guilt and so on.

The longer-lasting idea was that he'd die in a freak accident. I even set it up. Do you remember him telling the earthquake story when a toy piano fell of a shelf and hit him in the head? Well, I was going to have him be crushed by a falling piano when walking down the street. A snapped rope and so on.

I didn't drop it because Charles turned out a pretty nice guy, and became popular with players. That is, if anything more reason to kill him. A death without emotional impact, what is that worth?

But then I saw before me all the writing I'd have to do around it. Beth's feelings of guilt, the MC's, all the sad talks, and whatnot. I just didn't want to spend time on that. It would set back Beth+MC too far. So, Charles gets to live. Yay for Charles.

Well, this dragged on and became a novel on its own. There were some questions but I'll leave those for next week and write some more script. I don't know about non-lewd previews for the next update. I'd have to come up with some scene where Beth actually have clothes on.

Talk to you soon, thank you for your support!

Hello!

Here we are again. Friday. Luckily I'm sitting in front of a keyboard and itching to write a post!

So what's the progress? Well, as you all saw from the poll, I'm releasing an update pretty soon and pushing Beth to an update all of her own after this one. There are still some Beth in this soon-to-be-released one too.

Currently, I'm putting together the animations. There are not that many of them but they are pretty long, all in all over a thousand frames. There's also some programming to do, and play testing. I can't say exactly when I'm releasing it, but it will be as soon as I'm done with it!

Miko: Is that the update?

And we're talking days, but as we say to the God of Death: Not today.

I was thinking about content polls for the next update. Obviously there can't be a regular one since it'll be all about Beth. I also know the general path it will take, but there's still some liberties we can take. Maybe a poll about some specifics? If you have ideas, feel free to share them. No promises they'll be included in the poll I didn't commit to yet.

In the football, Spain and Germany have started strongest, although looking at who they've played against, Spain is definitely looking great. But as we all know, champions are not made in the group stage.

Okay, enough chit chat, I need to get back to putting together this thing together!

I'll see you soon. Very soon. Thanks for reading, and for your support.

Good evening, everyone!

Thank you all for tuning in to this week's Progress Update. It's an honor and a pleasure to see you all here today. I have something on my mind today that I want to discuss with you. Let's just get the update out of the way first!

All I've done this week so far is rendering, 13-15-15-13 day by day, not that I'm keeping track or anything. I've now reached the end of my pre-written script which means I'm both writing and setting up renders. It'll slow the rendering down some but I've never quite managed to make myself write the entirety of an update before I have to break off from that to start rendering.

I'm now near the end of Catalina's part of the update. Somewhere around 50 renders to go, which will bring the count to around 600 in total. When I set out to do this update, I had in mind to do around 100, maybe up to 150, renders per "part" for Sandra, Miko, Catalina, and Elisabeth. Now I'm nearing 600, and still have Beth to go. More on this towards the bottom.

Does Subscribestar allow nudity in public posts? Taking a chance they do!

Awaken had a joke of a question that I'll answer. At least the demonic laughter at the end makes me think it was a joke!
write about what gives you the most burnout, developing the game or writing these friday reports hahaha

Well, the answer is neither really. I can feel a tad stressed out at times by how slow things move. Okay, writing a big script would be, if anything, a bit of a drain.

When I'm done with Cat's scenes in a few days, I have only one girl left: Beth. I do have a fairly big scene in mind for her, or rather a sequence of scenes.

But I'm also really itching to release something and it's stressing me out that it's been so long since I updated. I know it's only been two months and a couple of days, and some devs work on updates for double that and even more. Yet even so ...

So what I'm thinking of doing is release an update in maybe ten days without Beth, and then immediately go to work on Beth and release the next update with just a bunch of Beth stuff as soon as possible after that (4-5 weeks maybe?)

I'm feeling like I'm going to be stressing through the Beth scenes and maybe not do her justice, if I'm waiting with a release until I'm done with all those too. I won't lie - if I feel I can take my time a bit with Beth, I might do a bit more rendering and writing than otherwise, so this split release might not be quite as fast, but better for my nerves and hopefully better quality.

I might put it up to a poll. It feels a tiny, tiny bit like a betrayal, you know? I don't like changes of plans. 

Thoughts? Let me know.

Anyway, I'm not done for the day. I'm back in the saddle for some more rendering. Thanks for reading and thank you for your support!

Oh: Germany just crushed the Scots in the opening game. Blowing their load way early. Feels like they'll be out in the quarterfinals this time. ;)