Just realized I forgot to post an update for February so I'm just going to combine it with the March. This is going to be a short debrief because I did a bad job of keeping track of what work was done when, but progress is underway for Chapter 6 Part 2, probably go with version number 0.6p2 for it. I know I have said it a dozen times, if not more, that I want to a 3-4 month release cycle, well to try and actually start moving towards that i am going to initially shoot for having a new release of some sort, so it maybe a full release or it may be an Alpha/Beta build depending on how much work gets done, 6 months after Chapter 6 Part 1 came out, so since that was at the end of January I am going be shooting for a new release at the end of July or early August at the latest.

Now I will also mention that while working on this update I had an idea for a new game and I've written a few lines for it, but it still needs a ton of fleshing out of concepts and story elements, and realistically I don't think I'm at a point where it would really be a good idea to try and develop two games at the same time no matter how much I like some of the ideas that have come to mind for this new one. So at most development on that one will likely be limited to working on the "Game Bible" for that game that fleshes out characters, basic story points, and the world.

I am going to keep this update short because there isn't much to say.

This is coming out about a week late due to me having had too much fun checking out Terra Invicta again after setting it aside for like a year or two to let development progress on the game. As a result of that I also didn't get quite as many renders done as I would have liked, only having done 21.

Depending on how many renders get done I will likely end up doing a second Alpha release in either June or July.

As I mentioned in the Discord server (link) towards the end of February I started having issues with the breaker for the room my computer is in randomly tripping again, which is annoying because it had been a few months since the last time it happened so I was hopeful that whatever was causing it had fixed itself. As a result of this issue I wasn't able to get all the renders I needed done so that we wouldn't be in the middle of a conversation. As evidenced by nothing having come out this past Friday, or thereabouts, I ended up making the decision to hold off because I really don't want a release to end in the middle of a conversation.

Linked below are also two extra renders I ended up doing when I had to create a scene to use on a prop for one of the scenes for this update.
Proton Drive

Hey all, its been a while. Going to start off with, can we just act like 2024 never existed?

Moving on, I am not going to be pausing payments in February. The reason being that I am finally back into a groove of sorts and so barring anything going really really wrong, my plan is to release an Alpha style build of what is currently completed at the end of February, and hopefully the rest of the update won't be not too far behind.

The main thing holding back release at this point is just the renders. I have not had as much time as I would have liked to work on them, add to that sometimes needing to redo renders because they don't quite come out looking like I wanted. The script is largely complete with mostly just some tweaking to improve the flow being needed. Didn't really have anything I would classify as code this month to deal with.

With this update, their will be a split early on depending on if you decided to hang out with Birgitta or not back in Chapter 3.

If you decided not to hang out with Birgitta then you will spend sometime walking around Starbase 40 by yourself and have a lewd scene early on, the renders for this branch are still baking in the oven so I don't have any previews for it at this time.

Hey all, time for the first official briefing for version 0.5 of Andromeda.

First, I want to correct some stuff I said in my last post.

First correction, I said:

But plans have changed. I am going to remaster the images for every single earlier scene, especially those from 0.1-0.3 (though a few in 0.4.5 could use some touch ups as well but I'm not sure if I'll get around to those by the time 0.5 is releasing). The reason for this is that the few scenes I have remastered already have seen fairly significant improvements in quality, see below. Part of the reason for this is, of course, me now having a better grasp on Daz, as well as having some useful scripts and other assets that I didn't have back then.

Second correction, I said last time:

Well yeah, turns out at the default settings and the internal denoiser set to kick in at 4000 iterations, images look like they were given significantly more time to render, with out actually taking that additional time and having minimal detail loss.

Now, I don't expect to have every single scene remastered by the time 0.5 is ready to release, so this will be a continuing effort. Saves should generally be compatible since I am not touching things like variables. Assuming my assumption is correct the the remasters won't be done by the time 0.5 release I would expect them to be done by the time 0.6 comes out.

This remastering process shouldn't interfere with work on 0.5 because my plan is that I will work on them while I work on the script, but once the script is done I will transition to focusing on doing the renders for 0.5.

Now for the new content with 0.5 itself. This update is going to be more focused on getting to know most if not all of the main cast that is already in the-game, I plan to add a few (mostly aliens) down the road.

Now that doesn't mean this update won't include progress on the central plot. Time is still moving, as the ship makes it's way to it's next destination, it's just not the main focus of this update.

Now for when this update will come out? I can't give anything exact but I would guess around December '22 or January '23. While I would love to get releases out ~3 months that won't be happening this time because I expect to be busy near the end of the year and won't have as much time to work on writing, or more accurately around that time, renders, especially since I don't set up by scenes all in one Daz file plus I use this as my personal rig as well.

Hey everyone, so yeah not going to be getting out the next update before this month is over. Those technical issues I had a few weeks ago really interrupted my flow. I am currently continuing to render out the last animation, it is about a third of the way done though I have only been working on it for the past few days and with a few interruptions so it's actually not that slow. I expect that all scenes will be done rendering, and a test play through will be done around mid-June.

I had originally been hoping to get this out back around Easter so the extras for the $10/month tier were Easter themed but since that didn't happen while I am play testing I will likely work on some renders that are Flag Day related, though it won't just be USA flag related in this case.