Thats extremely contradictive, since completion of the game will cut donations to zero. And do not call donations capitalistic, they are not made on buyer/seller basis, just people supporting You personally, not even your game.
- Completion of the game will result in another game starting.
- Capitalistic donations.
- Layered art in events and character, plus you forgot to mention our versatile text, normal/dumb/lustful Kiras + references to fetishes, quest completion, appearance and events. I’m pretty sure that we are the only team that does this.
- I’m not making any promises, I’m simply writing what I believe in. There are indeed few finishing touches left.
- I think that my posts are detailed, but you have a right to disagree.
- That russian thing you’re referring to has been resolved, you can go to my discord and read the full story by yourself (using google translate). But basically I just snapped and insulted some people, because they were acting even worse than you are now, and I refuse to be treated like this. That said, I’ve already apologised to them and I never called them “freeloaders”, I called them evil (I think).
Again, I’m not seeing any value in your feedback, it brings nothing new to the table and offers no solution. All you’ve said was “You’re a fraud, old art was better”, just in more words.
Dear fresh, what do you think you have been doing for the last few months? You completely dissappeared for a month or two right? Made everyone think you abandoned the game. You almost never meet a "deadline" (and don't play coy here; you keep apologizing for your own deadlines you dont meet). You let people believe that the game will be out every week, and dissapoint them at the very last second with delays. Mate that end has been near, forever. Your behaviour hasn't been just hateful, its even insulting. Everything goes bothways.
Mate, I would love nothing more than to up my donation. I think the game is amazing (honestly the best game out there; otherwise I wouldnt even bother going to this length) and I applaud you for the route you are taking with the game, but you have to learn how to handle incidents right.
See JonL? If you want to criticize me - this is how you should do it, not only Impossibleis7 is being constructive, but he talks to me like I’m a human being.
Impossibleis7, thank you and you’re right, I should learn to handle things better. So I’m going to attempt to do that here by explaining my actions, but you’ll have to read a lot of text and, you know, actually try to believe me.
First of all, I want you to know that everything I write - I believe in, I never wanted to lie or hurt anyone, all I want to do is tell stupid jokes in my game. That’s it.
The way I see it, there are two major problems right now - lack of time and my poor management, here’s what has happened over the last year or so:
In v0.4.5 we added this extremely complex layered character art that has thousands (not even hundreds) of pictures, we coded them in and put placeholders into the game - just because we don’t want to break your save files ever again.
Because we didn’t manage to include everything we wanted in 0.4.5, and the fact that it had severe “performance issues”, I felt awful and received a lot of criticism. Then I was silent for around two month, mainly because of comments like JonL is making, and how I was treated by russian community on my own discord - I was extremely depressed, felt like just dropping the game or worse, hurting myself. I’m not fishing for any empathy, just explaining my actions, it’s your call whether or not you want to believe me.
0.4.5 had severe performance issues, so we’ve been busy with fixing it in 0.4.6. For 0.4.6 the plan was to actually layer events, but to quicken the release we had to drop this and I just replaced the pictures like they were before (plus we added basic instinct quest).
I’ve redrawn events not because I’m insane, but rather out of necessity - we needed them to be layered so that we could show all our physical changes in them, I had to remake them and decided to make everything look the same for the sake of consistency (why not? I thought…)
So I already have all our older events with everything (breasts, hair, etc.), but we don’t know how much time it will actually take for us to replace them all - that’s why we’re not doing it right now at all, and the rework is “on hold”.
Because we spent so much time on redoing older art and text, I’ve decided to focus on new content in 0.4.7, gym seemed like a perfect place to add - we had hip enlargements in character art, but no way to increase hips (apart from the cheats). Believe it or not, we actually wanted to chill and catch our breaths after almost dying during the rework, so we picked gym instead of Farm (we were supposed to do farm first).
First two weeks after the release of 0.4.6 went on bugfixes and the artbook, then I’ve started writing, but I didn’t just write the gym, I went on and wrote 60 pages of the farm as well, because I didn’t want to break your saves (I don’t have time to explain how it’s related, but I gave the explanation on my patreon)
At this point New Year started rapidly approaching and we wanted to congratulate everyone with the release of 0.4.7. To give us another incentive and extra motivation I announced the date, which worked like a charm - we really hate disappointing people, so we worked harder than we ever did to make it in time, we crunched all week before the new years eve, both me and Moana were still working on the game on the 31st. But it was just impossible.
Another reason for us to rush 0.4.7 was the fact that both me and Moana had friends and relatives visiting us right after the New Year, and we wanted to go on holidays with clear consciousness and the sense of accomplishment. I don’t know how Moana felt while “celebrating”, but I felt like shit (we both had a two weeks long "holiday")
Gym squatting event has 113 versatile pictures right now, but back then it had 107 (we added body writings to it). And the problem with those pictures is that they need to be in a certain order and some of them are mutually exclusive. Just to let Moana know how it works, I had to create a three pages long guide, and yet, we still made a ton of mistakes (it’s extremely confusing).
The event itself consisted of four parts - four days for you to play with, besides that we also created a new shady shop, added hair salon, nipple piercings, gym outfit and a new tattoo. Everything else was cut for the New Year version (no gropings, no repeatable events, no character art, no interface for the shop).
After our New Year fiasco I’ve changed my mind, because every time we add something - we drop it half way and move forward to something else, so I’ve decided to finish everything that we planned for the gym before its release, announced it on patreon and my patrons agreed that I should do it.
Every week since then we were adding something new and showing teasers on our page, to let people know that the work is going. Every character that is used for this update has art, new grope event with Katya was added for nipple piercings (if you are dating), hair “styling” was added (will only appear in character art), soviet star earring was added, interface to the shop, art for items, repeatable squatting event, worldbuilding text and most importantly - 4 gym grope events, small body writing event and 4 repeatable options of that.
Then I was sick for two weeks, have no clue what it was, but I had a fever and coughing felt like I was stabbed in a lung - this thing immobilized me for almost two weeks.
Apart from benevolence and one outfit, I already showed pictures of everything that we will include in 0.4.7, to prove that we’re working - I’ve spoiled all that we did (and I really didn’t want to spoil anything).
Even the text now is a problem - everything is tied to variables and has alternative versions, making things work is extremely hard at this point.
Both squatting event and grope events are “exceptions”, squatting event is complex because it’s the only place where you will be able to increase/decrease hips in the entire game (apart from some mystery medicine), so I’ve made it complex to make it unique.
And grope events will be used all over the game, in places like - legion1, tunnel, vasilissa mall encounter. We will also use this system for the farm and in other places of the game - it’s designed to quicken the development and give you more things to do in defenestration at the same time.
Right now there’s 153 pictures for our grope art, and 6 pages long guide on how to use them. It has all the symptoms of our gym event - wrong layering, missing pictures and glitches due to mistakes on my end (separating something that shouldn’t be separated may result in disappearance of parts mid event for a second, e.g. I separated male hand from male outfit and had to fix that, etc.).
Just this week I had to edit and resave 80 pictures, but we fixed squatting event, so we can fix this one too - it’s just a bit too complex.
Overall this update will have: A ton of jokes, amazing music, new outfit, two piercings, hair styling, an option to change hair, an option to change hips, new tattoo, new character art, shop interface, items, 4 squatting events, repeatable squatting event, 4 gym grope events, 3 repeatable grope events, 1 body writings event and its repeatable version, Katya grope event, two older outfits, pet training, benevolence, a ton of slightly edited art (Kira’s body, legion 2 event etc.), bugfixes, choices, autosave. And all of it will be versatile - interchangeable art and text based on your choices.
I’m certain that I’m forgetting something, but I’ll try to include everything in the changelog.
When I say that it is almost done, I mean it - everything is written, drawn and coded in, we’re busy with fixing it so you could have the best experience and just so we could forget about the gym. I’ve shown everything on my page already, and look how much text you forced me to write with your concerns!
So, when I say poor management - I mean my choice to make this update so big and my bitterness.
From a financial point of view, it’s extremely important for me to release the game as often as possible. So we should have released it like this - 0.4.6a (bugfix), 0.4.6.2 (benevolence and pet), 0.4.6.5 (4 gym squatting events), 0.4.6.7 (5 grope events) and finally 0.4.7 (customization and repeatable versions). This would lead to us gaining more support and everyone would be happy. Unfortunatelly I was too focused on writing and drawing to notice this, or maybe I’m just dumb.
I may seem a bit rude to you, but it’s only because I’m tired - I know that I’ve made a mistake, I’ll try not to repeat it, but what’s done is done, 0.4.7 is almost ready and it’s a really good update in my totally not biased opinion. Apologies for lashing out on you, but please stop repeating the same thing over and over again - it doesn’t help anyone, I don’t want to be a villain, and I don’t want to feel this miserable ever again.
I hope that I’ve managed to clear things up a bit, now it’s up to you whether or not you want to believe me. If you’re on the fence, I suggest you wait and see what new update will bring, you’re not giving me any capitalistic donations, so just wait and see.
Love you Fresh Mulan, please your update can solde the Covid 2019 problem, be fast 
