December 6th 2021: Progress Report

Hello everyone, Rem here with this week's Progress Report!

Wow, there's one more Progress Report before the Steam release, can you all believe that? Three years, gone in a blink of an eye.

So this week's is going to be a bit of a long post because next week is going to be super short. First up, Progress Report: Last week we worked on making KP ready to be beta tested, and then afterwards we worked on fixing the reported issues and bugs from the beta testers.

Now then, there's a lot of things to talk about and not a lot of time left!

First thing is that I would like to repeat what I've said before that Karryn's Prison will be releasing on December 15th on Steam (it'll be way past midnight in Japan time). I'm thinking around 12PM PST / 3PM EST / 8PM GMT / 5AM JST. Maybe an hour earlier, maybe a few hours later, I'm not sure yet. Karryn's Prison will also retail for $30 with a 20% launch discount.

The DLsite version will most likely release a few days later. The DLsite version will have mosaic censorship, and there will be NO uncensor patch provided by us since it would be against Japan's laws. Both Steam and DLsite will allow you to switch between English or Japanese text. Furthermore, both versions will allow you to switch between English or Japanese VOICES. That's right everybody! Karryn's Prison will be releasing fully voices for all of Karryn's battle dialogues! Much thanks to Sachinama for working day and night to edit the voice files for the game and of course, for our talented voice actresses, Tezuka Ryouko and SilkyMilk for making this possible!

Next, I would like to talk about something that a lot of people, understandably, are curious about even though we don't really have the extra time to think about currently, which is what our next plans are after releasing Karryn's Prison.

So here's the plan. I want Sachinama to take a well deserved break for Christmas and New Years with his family. And I will take a break too with my family. Of course, we will naturally be providing support for post release bugs and issues and all that stuff. But I think both of us need a break first before the subject of new content or new game or new project or whatever that requires creativity energy will be earnest talked about.

Personally, I will be very, VERY leisurely trying to finish porting all the ingame text to the new text system I talked about in previous Progress Reports. I really originally wanted to finish porting everything over before release, but that proved extremely difficult because of how much it was hurting my wrists, so instead I chose to focus harder on working with the voice actresses to get the voicework done as soon as possible. As a result, the retail version will now have voices!!! On the flip side, this means it will be quite a long while before localizations for other languages will be possible to be implemented.

Third, to repeat from previous Progress Reports: once the Beta Test is over, all download links will be removed from SubscribeStar. And again to repeat from previous announcements, there will be no retail keys given out on SubscribeStar or Ci-en for subscribers. Also, once the Beta Test is over, no more names will be added to credits.

Edit: Beta Test will most likely last for a few more days.

It's been a long, yet somehow short, but always exciting and interesting journey. Thank you all for your support for making it possible at all! There's still a week more to go, and plenty work to be done until release. So I got one more thing left to say:

Pray for my wrists.

Take care everyone and remember to save up money for the Steam release!

Edit: Sachinama's latest Ci-en post is now available here:

https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/2068/article/565601