Hello everybody!

Here are some more previews for the next update of Defending Lydia Collier, which will be Jenna's update.

So far for Jenna's update I've created an entire day out in London with her on the Sunday, and an adult scene with two 400+ frame animations, and I'm now finishing off the evening when she will either meet Lydia if you choose to introduce them, or stay with her at the character's house overnight if you do not.

I've also created some custom audio for the tube station with platform announcements and sound effects to improve immersion as well for Jenna's day as Ellie's tube journey felt a bit lifeless (and I'll be going back and creating sounds for that in the future too). 

A lot of people have asked for animations, so I'm trying really hard to make these but it takes a long time as I'm not very good at them at all and am having to learn at the same time. I still haven't been able to find anybody to commission to do them, basically every single NSFW Animator I've found just completely ignores my DMs, the majority, or the ones that do reply only wants to work with their own characters or ones ripped from mainstream games. However the two I've made so far myself are both rendered in 4k so they look better, in my opinion, than the earlier ones and I'm getting better and faster with these with each one I make.

I'm going to put everything I've made so far into an Alpha release for testing next week to get some more feedback there and then I'll set an update for the full update depending on what they say.

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

WP

Hello everybody,

Unfortunately I do not have much to report this week as I've spent this week dealing with a lot of non-development things to help me going forwards.

Primarily this has involved viewing various places to allow me to have a small office to work in going forwards.

Currently, as some of you may know, since graduating I've been living, running all my equipment and working within one very small bedroom in a house share, and its slowly been getting to the point I'm almost certain I'm getting cabin fever.

I've put up with feeling like this for months now but recently it has become completely unsustainable and the last couple of weeks it has been seriously affecting me mentally and I've needed to stop and take the time to resolve it.

So this week I've visited and viewed several places and after looking up crime rates, insurance costs, internet speeds etc, and spending a most of a day sitting on an embankment after my car broke down going to a viewing, I've now secured a place where going forward I'll have a dedicated room to use as an office for working in and developing the game.

I'm certain this decision will end up with a significant improvement on development going forward, but its meant there isn't much to show for in this week's update. Apologies for this, but I really needed to take some time to sort this out. Everything mentioned last week will therefore be carried forward to this upcoming week.

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

WP

Hello everybody,

Here is this week's development log.

This past week I've been working hard finishing the social media, coding it and testing it and at the moment it all works pretty well.

With the game drawing towards its end and with the coming additions of achievements and collectibles I want to have this really nailed down when it's released and don't plan on really touching it too much going forward, and I also plan on using this code and system for future projects which is why I've spent a fair bit of time on it.

Alpha Testers will get the Social Media soon, and then I plan on making this February's BETA Release so you can play around with it and see most of the new pictures that have been included.

Here's a choice associated image that can be posted by Samantha, and one of Sophie's pictures for her new profile as the winner of January's poll.

Don't forget to vote in the currently ongoing poll for some other themed additions for v.0.16 here: https://subscribestar.adult/posts/822862

I'll probably do one more poll for another set of additions before v.0.16 is done, so if you have any ideas of what you'd like to be seen drop them in the comments, and if I think they're fitting I'll include them in the next poll.

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

WP

So this week I've made some changes to what's coming up, primarily that is cancelling v.0.15.5 (the achievement update) and combining it instead with v.0.16.

Why?

Simply put, to avoid annoying masses of people.

In order to get the most out of both v.0.15.5 and v.0.16, you're going to need to restart and play through again. You don't have to for the story and content if that's what your focus is, but if you're looking at unlocking the new collectibles I'm adding and getting all the achievements (which is the only reason you'd want v.0.15.5 anyway) then you'll need to play again from the beginning.

v.0.15.5 was going to add 41 new achievements, and say you wanted to unlock Ellie's achievements, you'd have to do a fresh Ellie playthrough.

v.0.16 is then adding the new social media, which will also have achievements relating to that, new pictures and unlockables. So if you wanted to unlock all of Ellie's pictures that way and get the social media achievements, you'd have to do a fresh Ellie playthrough for the second time in as many updates.

I feel forcing people who want to be completionists to do two playthroughs in two updates is likely to get a lot of negativity focused on the update, instead of the focus on all the new adult scenes, the revamped Social Media and the new features themselves. Alternatively people just will say "I'll wait until v.0.16 then, I'm not doing it twice", in which case it defeats the point of releasing it separately.

So because of that, I'm just going to hold back and add it all in together.

Sorry about this, but I strongly believe it is for the best!

What's actually coming in v.0.16?

I'm quite excited about v.0.16 because in addition to the evening's scenes (which are all heavily adult focused) I'm also finally going to be finishing revamped the computer and sorting out the Social Media.

This will mean you'll get a new desktop site to visit where all of the girls profiles will now be, and I'll be revamping and expanding them with new renders, plus some new profiles.

$10 Supporters voted for Sophie to be added to Our Moments last month, so she'll get a page as well with this update.

In reality, that's now a way a lot of people communicate, I'm sure many people have somebody attractive they follow and like their posts, so I want DLC to reflect that.

But I'm also going a bit further, the interactions you have with the girls will also change their behaviour.

If you've been spending time with Samantha and encouraging her to show off a bit more, then she might upload something more revealing. Encouraged Bimbo Stephanie to let people see her in her very short dress, it may appear. Turned Emma into a full on bunny boiler? Then she might decide to follow you and upload something to get your attention.

So even some minor dialogue choices now will have an impact, helping to make the world more immersive and something you're more in charge of. There will also be some new dialogue choices coming to past content specifically for this purpose!

When will v.0.16 be out?

As with many of my updates, v.0.16 has grown significantly from what was originally planned and because of that its going to take a bit longer than expected.

I'm planning now for v.0.16 to have a March release, but whereas before I was planning 3-4 different adult scenes, that will now more likely be 7-8 meaning v.0.16 will end up being quite a bigger update than v.0.15.

As I didn't post January's BETA for $10 Supporters due to the planned v.0.15.5 release, I've put another poll up for you guys to decide on some more bonus content to be thrown into the revamped media! Check that poll for more details.

Thanks for all the new and continued support!

WP