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Sep 26, 2025 03:53 pm
Update 0.225 release date (and important infos!)
The update will be released on
September 30 in the evening in a pre-release beta version for the 60 LV+ channel before it gets released here on SS officially a few hours later.
The update, especially parts 1 and 2, is pretty complicated in terms of logistics, as there are many storylines that need to be mentioned and taken into account. There is also a lot to consider in terms of planning, and we constantly come back to points that are unclear and lead to discrepancies. That's why the work on it is very tedious at the moment. In addition, we are talking about a text volume of almost 50k words (almost 60 pages of script), all of which has to match the renders and be checked for flow and grammar. I check most of it during the first P&T step, but it's only when I play the game myself that I get a feeling for the scenes and see that many passages need to be reworded, or things need to be omitted, or there are many small errors such as duplicate sentences, incorrect possessive pronouns, wrong meanings, grammatical errors, or sentences that sound bad or cheesy. And much more.
I also had to render some additional scenes for the alternative storylines.
We picked out about 75 animations (from the around 3,000 I created over the last three months), more than half of which already have sound, but my colleague is still working on the rest. This is also a very time-consuming process, as every touch and mouth movement has to match and also with background ambience sound. And that's for 75 animations! So it may be that we won't be able to add perfect matching sound to all the animations before the release, and that this will be done after release and updated afterwards.
Overall, an incredible amount of work went into the update, and it is larger and way more complex than my demo back then with around 900-950 renders, which I worked on for about 10 months (for this update around 1200 renders have been created). And that had 100 times worse graphics (much less effort and no real editing of the renders), no animations, extremely simple code, as nothing had happened yet, and much less text! And it took me 3 months longer, even though I was highly motivated at the time and easily worked on it for 14-15 hours every day.
Very important to note for this update: You cannot see all the new scenes in one playthrough. There is the Sophia/Dylan “cuck path” and the Sophia/Dylan “romance path.” Both have very different scenes and approaches in Parts 1-3! You automatically enter the cuck path if Dylan allowed his teammates to flirt with Sophia to the maximum in the previous update. For the “romance path,” you would have had to prevent that.
Furthermore, there is a scene with Dylan and Ellie having dinner in Part 2 of the update, which can only be seen if Dylan was at Christine's party the night before and things escalated there.
It is also important to mention that for Parts 4-5, Sophia must not have had sex with Liam up to this point.