Hello everybody,

Defending Lydia Collier v.0.15.6 has now been released to the Supporter Tier, head here to grab the update! -> https://subscribestar.adult/posts/989516

Now that is all done I'm working on v.0.15.7 and making the final renders to finish off the island content which should be ready in a week or two (aiming still for the end of the month, but may not be as v.0.15.6 took slightly longer than expected, so may be early September).

This update will feature Vanessa, Sophie and Tiffany, with two new scenes for Vanessa, one featuring Sophie, and three new scenes for Tiffany!

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

WP

Hello everybody,

I apologise but I'm going to delay v.0.15.6 again until this Saturday.

The reason for this is that I am going to add in a second Ellie scene, entirely different from the one I've just extended. That scene is entirely done, with two variations as I mentioned, this is to add something entirely new in for Ellie that wasn't planned until this morning when I was double checking my completed render pile (which was a bit of a mess) and found an almost done Ellie scene. As it is an Ellie focused update and it fits better now than it would in a Steph or Vanessa update.

I completely forgot that the first Ellie scene I made for v.0.16, pictured above and partly in the BETA, hasn't yet been released. I forgot all about it as I was making it when the residential problems really started messing up my workflow before I moved to my new address and I just rediscovered it when looking through the already made render pile for v.0.16.

Well this scene has 80 renders already made for it, and it needs another 25 or so to finish it off and that will enable me to link this new update into the Ellie/Lydia Path. This means you can get the new Emma or Helena scenes and then choose whether to go out with Ellie alone (this was the planned route for v.0.15.6) or instead go to Lydia's and get the story Lydia scenes (if you're not on Lydia solo you wouldn't have seen these yet) and then instead of the game just finishing with already released content from v.0.15.5 and a bit of an "oh that's it?" feeling, you'll then also get this new solo Ellie scene, and then all the Ellie and Lydia's duo content will come in a later update.

This will mean v.0.15.6 will end up with two scenes for Ellie, two for Helena and one for Emma and meaning it will comfortably pass the 1000 render mark.

I don't want to bombard people with tiny little 100 render updates to kind of make it seem like the game is constantly getting updates when it isn't really, I want them to be substantial and worthwhile to download, and to get this scene ready to go I need 1 more day of rendering and 1 day of coding/post on the renders, so releasing v.0.15.6 now and then releasing (v.0.15.6.1?) on Saturday I think would confuse people as they'd likely think it was a bug fix, and then also annoy people looking for new content with such small addition. It might be ready on Friday or even tomorrow if these render quickly overnight, and if it is I'll drop it as soon as its done, but I'll say Saturday to make certain there absolutely won't be another delay.

Sorry about this, but I'm really trying to get as many of these scenes out as possible as I still have 100s more in the pile and I know its been a while since you all had a good sized update.

This won't affect my plans to still release v.0.15.7 later this month, so please vote in that poll and I'll announce the winner with v.0.15.6 and get cracking on those renders this weekend!

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

WP

Hello everybody,

Unfortunately I apologise I am going to have to slightly delay the release of v.0.15.6 until Wednesday (9th August) because I'm in the process of adding another scene in. 

Ellie is a very popular character, and when I was finishing the update on Thursday I really thought the Adult Scene I've created for her for v.0.15.6 is too linear and would only reflect a certain group of players, and would be a bit of a character shift for some people. Helena has two wildly different scenes, Emma has a variety of choices throughout her scene, and then Ellie was just basically A -> B and it felt off that she was getting a scene that, whilst it is a good scene, offered less choice and less renders than what two side characters off of her path were getting. 

So what I've done is add a choice in mid-way during the scene to offer two different night scenes with Ellie after the date with her, but I need a couple of days to finish rendering these.

I was really hoping they'd all be done as I finished posing them all in the early hours of Friday morning and left the machine to render, but the queue is only at 21/74 and they're just not going to be done tonight or this weekend unless they suddenly speed up.

So far the progress of v.0.15.6 is: 

Helena (300-350 renders originally planned) - 339 Renders Completed.
Emma (175-200 renders originally planned) - 252 Renders Completed.
Ellie (250-350 renders originally planned) - 304 Renders Completed - 74 Renders to Go.

This will mean v.0.15.6 will end up being essentially a 1000 render update which is at the very top end of the count originally planned, so hopefully that makes up for the short delay.

I also want to release a second update this month as well as there are two other paths I have routes I feel I could fill in the gaps, finish off what I've already got and complete in 2-3 weeks.

I'm going to put a poll up that will run until Friday, and then from Friday onwards I'll work on whichever route wins and have that out before the month closes.

Don't worry if you vote for the route that comes second, each of these routes already have 100s of renders made and just need an extra scene or two and finishing off, so whoever comes second will be release in September.

Once that is released in September, 3000-4000 renders of v.0.16 will have been released and I'll finally be sort of back on track after the disastrous start to the year.

There will not be a BETA for August as there will be this update and v.0.15.7 which will be for you guys to decide. At the moment I've been pumping through renders so the UI update will be 15.9/15.10, I'm not sure yet I don't want to switch back to coding at this moment.

Again, apologies for this and thanks for all your support!

WP

Hello everybody!

Here is this week's development log for Defending Lydia Collier.

It has been a very productive week, with 203 renders and one 216 frame animation made, bring the total to 1,735 renders made for v.0.14 and two animations. 

Jenna is now completed, joining Bimbo Stephanie, Emma & Samantha, and I'm now working on Regular Stephanie, Lydia and Ellie's content for the next update which I hope to have completed in the next week or two. 

Once that is all done, I have some story stuff to add in, a lot of which is primarily text and code based, and then all of the UK based content for the next update is finished and this part of the update will be passed to the Alpha Testers whilst I work on the content on the island and Tiffany's wedding.

For $10+ supporters, the monthly renders in a "Fallout Theme" have now been released and the polls are up for next month. September will see the characters in a Fantasy Theme.

This month's BETA will feature Emma at the Gym, and will be released on Monday/Tuesday.