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Feb 17, 2024 11:30 pm

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[~February News post #1~]

Hi everyone! I hope you've all been doing well into 2024 so far, hopefully avoiding issues like I did back in January with a lot of stressful issues reaching the tipping point. ^^"

I wanted to start this off with a personal mention, for those who are concerned with how I'm doing since the issues that really pushed me over the edge in January. I'm doing much better! For a while I was a bit worried and felt like a robot when it came to emotions. (Figured I was just emotionally spent from the panic attack, but part of me was wondering if the event had impacted me somehow.)

I'm very thankful to say I feel back to my normal self again, emotionally intact and not a robot! XD It took a bit to sink back into classes, since I had taken a week off during the highlight of that stuff taking place, so catching up and trying to keep up with the day to day tasks was a bit of a struggle for a moment there too.

Mainly I just wanted to briefly start this off with the personal mention stuff for those who were concerned. <3

Now for MA stuff!

When can we expect the next releases and what are the plans with those?

The first release to sort out is v0.20 pt 3 for public and pt 4 for supporters. In case you missed the plans for that, the public version of pt 3 will include Bridget's scene and two other scenes. Support version of pt 4 will have a total of 6 scenes and will be the finishing point for episode 5.

We're mainly touching up the quality stuff involved with episode 5 and once you all see how that looks, it should make the wait a bit worth it. Granted we aren't trying to withhold the content by any means.

v0.20 pt 3 & pt 4 should be ready within the last week of February, I do prefer to release new content on the weekends as its less of a pain for my schedule. <.< But February is a odd month and so, I'm willing to prepare myself to get the release out during the last week. Once again, I can't thank everyone enough for being more than patient with us. <3

In efforts to make up for the bumpy transition into 2024, besides the releases mentioned above... We have content coming very early in March during the first week or two.

This content is going to be part of a big announcement and feature art previews with it, so sadly that's all I can afford to say about it at this time. (Trust me when I say, I've been trying to bite my tongue on this for a while!) This content/announcement should be a huge thing for MA and we're curious how people will enjoy it and see how we can take in feedback to work in stuff if possible. ^^

Later in March, we'll have our typical content release by then. This will be v0.21 and it'll also include the above content within it, in case anyone prefers to hold off on the above download until v0.21 hits.

v0.21 will have us back to our normal release schedule, which is a new release every month. The oddball releases that feature stuff like "v0.20 pt 1, 2, 3" or "v0.19.5" are going away! In other words, v0.21 and then v0.22 will follow in April, v0.23 in May, etc.

The only exception to that rule will be releases titled "Hotfix" which is in the case of a event, where a major bug or issue is present with a given release. We can dive into fixing the issue asap and put out a fixed version within the days after a release. In those cases and how to tell releases that are hotfixes or just normal, they'll look like this. v0.21 = normal release, no bugs/issues. v0.21 Hotfix = fixed version, suggesting v0.21 had major bugs/issues and this is the ideal release.

Don't worry, we'll be sure to let everyone know about those when the time comes. This is our roadmap from now to the end of March, during that month. We'll kick it off with more details on v0.21 and what the content will entail, but just expect it'll be route content. :P

Posts have been lacking lately on Substar, Pixiv, Kickstarter, etc.

>.< This is something that I noticed recently and its unintentional. Right now, its just a awkward month in terms of what I can put out for posts right now, but this will improve a bit. The ideal setup is that we put out 2 or 3 posts a week.

What we should have coming before long is monthly voting polls related to new content or other focuses, behind the scenes script posts, preview teaser screenshots for upcoming content, art collection posts and some other stuff.

Our artists have been busy, but we don't really have much to showcase right now outside of some cg art related stuff. This is because Lisa is working on some a lot of story spoiler related stuff for sprites, with maybe 4-5 things that remain that can be shown off before she finishes up all the sprite needs for the project. ^^"

Rest assured, the lack of posts in February hasn't gone unnoticed! I plan to toss a bit more out this month to catch up a bit, but March will for sure be a more activate month with posts left and right.

With that all said, I've rambled on long enough. Expect some screenshots and video footage teasers of the upcoming content sometime next week! (These teaser previews will avoid major spoilers with the content.)