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I had a great week because it felt like it went by in a flash, and every day was shorter than I wanted.
I started by wrapping up work on a lewd scene and planned to continue to work on another lewd scene. But I ended up playing the episode and writing, and I went with the flow. I wrote more scenes and then started working on a big free roam event for the episode.
The free roam event will need a bunch of animations, which is why I felt I could start work on it. I spent one day planning it by compiling notes, outlining the flow of events, and mapping the layouts of the environments. To show you some behind-the-scenes, here is how this process can look on my end (all text has been redacted).
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The free roam event has new environments, which is exciting, but that also means much more work. I have been working on the environment design for several days, and it's starting to come together. I have a few more areas to design before I can continue with the next step, which is dressing all the characters. All 87 of them. This is the biggest number of characters I've had in a single free roam event. Just dressing them will take at least two days, and I'm hoping to get a poll out of it, too.
After I'm done with that, I will start writing dialogue for the planned events and begin posing animations. I've got exciting weeks ahead of me, and I will alternate between working on this free roam event and on lewd scenes.
The animation queue I tried to build with the lewd scene I finished earlier this week is looking too slim for my liking. Hopefully, I can fix that next week. Oh, what a wonderful problem to have.
This week, I also finalized work on the special part of this project that I started way earlier in this development cycle. And I've also worked on the Steam/GOG trailers for Season 3—they are almost finished. I have locked in the episode 12 title and written a synopsis for the store pages as well. You'll learn more details about all of this in an upcoming announcement.
Have a nice weekend
Dr PinkCake
The only thing that puts MC in the faculty party is the invitation to perform which not only can be declined in favour of doing something else that day, but won't even be offered unless you help Jill with her recital. Saying that it will be mandatory is one massive leap. Moreover the conversation with Philip in which MC gets the invitation implies that students who attend are very much a minority. To have 87 characters at that party DPC would have to create more than 40 new characters none of whom would be students.
Well, I think that you'll probably need to have chosen to spend time with each of them, but I'd expect there to be some pretty generous margins for error. The relationship point requirements for "I love you" with LI's have been very reasonable, and I would expect similarly reasonable buffers for meeting the threshold of a "balanced" playthrough with Maya and Josy. At least that's what would make for a good game and a reasonably believable story.
"Mandatory" was a mistranslation. I meant "canon."
I don't see why not. It's a season ender party before we hit the final season so might as well go big. Plus, it being NYE is all the more reason for everyone from college to be at it because NYE parties are generally a big deal. Also, given all that's just happened and all the likely tension on campus, having a party that's open to everyone be arranged at a neutral location makes a lot of sense as it's a way to try and bring everybody together.
No, it isn't. It's literally an optional choice for the MC. You choose between this or the fighting tournament because both are happening at the same time and unless the MC chooses to perform at it, he won't be going in any capacity whatsoever.
It's not canon when it's optional.
You'd be hard-pressed to reach 87 characters without having the Jocks, Nerds, Preps, feminists, and even faculty there too. The DIKs, HOTs, and dorm girls and guys, named and otherwise, don't get anywhere close. So either it's going to be all those people or DPC creates a ridiculous amount of nobody background characters to fill the party.
You're misunderstanding something. The only optional decisions are whether the MC wants to participate in the tournament and/or play guitar with Jill at the party.
The fact that DPC made it a choice, and a difficult one at that for him in his internal dialogue, means you absolutely are not going to be able to attend both. They will both be happening simultaneously and it's clearly designed to be an impactful choice. If you are able to be at both in any capacity then it ruins that.
Yes that's my point. The idea that DPC would just bloat up the event to that point with random new models with no lines or interactions is simply ludicrous. He has put such characters in the background of his parties but not in those numbers. And those models are students. In order to bloat the faculty party to that point DPC would have to create new teachers and new staff models who will never serve any other purpose in the story. And why? Apparently just to bloat up the party. No sense whatsoever.
Given typical release date inflation, top end would be June 2026. However progress has been relatively quick and lacking notable delays so far and at least 50% of planned items have already been finished within 6-7 months, so if progress is maintained it could be as early as April.
Magnar's holding his victory orgy.
I understand that it's New Year's Eve and all that, but Maya looks pretty revealing in any of these outfits. This is unusual for the introverted Maya, who prefers more modest clothing.
She already wore very revealing outfits, like top and mini-skirt when she met MC at first, and the dress at the Ep.6 end, which Patrick didn't like. Now she has no limits and takes it one step further... And then there's the logic of the porn game.I understand that it's New Year's Eve and all that, but Maya looks pretty revealing in any of these outfits. This is unusual for the introverted Maya, who prefers more modest clothing.
Maya is like, “Oh, it's a New Year's Eve party, why don't I wear a dress that shows off my boobs so all the guys will stare at me, because that's what MC likes so much.”
