Planning - How new updates will be made from now on

What's up, guys!
How're you doing?
Hope you're enjoying Episode 4. :)
Sorry for being absent for the last 2 weeks, but I've been having some serious problems with my formal job, which has ended up preventing me from concentrating on the project.
Once these problems are overcome, I'll dedicate myself more to the project and try to bring you news more frequently.

Firstly, during these 2 weeks, I've been testing the Steam version, which will be published soon, as soon as the Early Access period ends.
I usually test this version last because of the exclusive features, so I have to test how things like Steam Achievements work, for example, which takes a little more time.
By the way, v0.4 will be available to $12 or higher supporters starting on February 18th, so if you haven't played the new version yet, get ready to have fun!

But that's not the main topic of this post.
As usual, before we start developing a new episode, we usually post a roadmap here containing our plans for the new episode.
So without further ado, let's get to it:

First things first, before we can start developing Episode 5 itself, we need to complete one thing first: Update the Official Guide with the new version's content.
So that's the task we'll aim to complete first.
As soon as it's done, it'll be published here and on our other pages for all supporters.

Now, moving on to the development of the new version itself:
It took us longer than expected to release v0.4, due to all the unforeseen events we've had over the past year, which we've already reported here.

We're aware that this is frustrating for players and we've received some complaints about it, too.
For this reason, we'll try to release updates more frequently and with shorter time intervals from now on.

On the other hand, not everything is perfect. So far, we've tried to release updates containing 4 sex scenes per episode, which also costs us more development time, but despite this, we were able to deliver an episode with fully animated sex scenes.

We usually have 2 sex scenes that make up the main story and 2 extra, optional sex scenes in each episode.

What we've decided to do is release an update that will contain the sex scenes from the main story and then release another update that will contain the extra sex scenes.

This will mean that, starting with the next episode, we'll have v0.5.0 and v0.5.1, dividing the development of the episode into 2 parts, unlike what we did with the v0.4.0, which will not need to have a v0.4.1, since all the content planned for it was included in v0.4.0.

In short, we'll split the content into 2 updates, so that you'll have new content to play more frequently.

Honestly, we on the development team would prefer to take a little more time and deliver more complete content in the update, but we feel that this is not the best way to conduct the development of the game, since fans are eager to play the new content. For this reason, we have decided to release smaller updates, but more frequently.

This post is long, but we needed to share our plans with you.
We hope you enjoy v0.4.0 and we'll be bringing you new content as soon as possible.
Cheers! 🍻