Ecchi Sensei Week 1 - Status Report No. 17:
Helloooo~
This is the last status report for Week 1. There won't be any more.
In this last report, as announced last week, you get further info on the
final release and also some info on how things are going to proceed in the future.
There are many different rumors regarding on
how long Ecchi Sensei is going to be and
how many characters the game will feature.
Here I want to make a
public statement to define what my goals are so that this speculation can stop.
Ecchi Sensei will contain
365 ingame days. Then it's over but it will be
continued directly afterwards. There is definitely going to be a
sequel to Ecchi Sensei that starts where the first part ends.
My goal is to create the biggest and longest visual novel of all time, and after the first
365 days that goal will have been reached easily.
Days 1-7 contained 1 ingame day per update. The speed is increased a bit in Week 2 and so the next three updates will be the following ones: Day8+9, Day 10+11, and Day 12, 13, & 14.
In the future you will get to see an increasing amount of ingame days per update and the final release of Day 365 will be at the end of 2021 at the latest.
In
Ecchi Sensei, there are more characters that have an individual story than in other games, and many people like that but others are concerned because it results in less screentime for the individual characters. To combat that and to continue trying to
make all players happy I thought of a way to
customize Ecchi Sensei even more so that everyone of you can decide how much time to spend with which person.
For that reason, starting with the end of
Week 2 or the beginning of
Week 3, during business days (
Monday - Friday)
you as the player can
decide what to do in the evening.
Thus,
Ecchi Sensei will have sandbox content, but
not in the classic way with constant repetitions of scenes or constant clicking or needing to farm money or other things.
As for how the evenings work, you have action points then you can use to spend time with your favorite characters. You will see a map with different locations and the ladies that are available there.
For instance, let's say it's Monday and Tomoe is available, then you click on Tomoe and spend time with her and you've got two remaining action points that you can invest into others.
The trick about this is as follows... I have repeatedly said that
Ecchi Sensei contains
main routes as well as
character-specific routes.
The main routes govern everything but the sandbox content and
character routes are mostly relevant for the sandbox. That means that the main story won't change depending on whether you visited Tomoe on Monday or not. If you see Tomoe again on Tuesday, she might discuss the previous day's events with you but the events of the previous day's sandbox don't have any effects on any main route.
To put it simply:
Monday evening (sandbox): Sex with Tomoe
Tuesday noon: Tomoe discusses yesterday's events with (just) you.
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Monday evening (sandbox): Didn't visit Tomoe
Tuesday noon: No discussion about yesterday's events because you didn't visit Tomoe.
That means that next to the main routes, there are these character routes that are there mostly so that you can spend more time with specific persons, do naughty things with them, and learn more about them.
In the future, that means you have a lot more choice regarding what persons you want to spend more and less time with.
If you don't like the available choices, you can just stay at home with the family and spend time with them or
just skip the sandbox sections.
Alright, so much to that. I hope both of these things are now settled for good. There will be more newly appearing young ladies but it's not a big number.
I don't want to stick to a particular number but it's
definitely not going to be above 100.
Alriiight, let's go back to
Week 1 and the
Final release. After discussing it with my loyal team members,
Week 1 will be released by August 11.
Then Latecomer will start working on
Day 8+9 while I create the first images for Day
10+11.
Another important piece of information to close off the last status report:
There are going to be "merges" in the future as well. The next merge is going to be
"Month 1", containing all previous updates in one big download.
But... and that is very important...
the future merges won't take longer than 1 update.
For
Week 1, I wanted to create a base with new features that are essential to enjoying the game in my opinion. The next merges won't contain any new grand features that take a lot of itme to implement and so, other than text optimizations, script and performance improvements, there won't be anything new that could cause delays.
That time-consuming work on
Week 1 has cost us a lot of energy and I don't want to do something like that again but it was necessary. For the future merges, it won't be, like I said, because we have created a great base to work with. Thus,
we will resume releasing 1 update per month in the future and then you can look forward to your monthly dose of
Ecchi Sensei again.
That being said, in the name of all of my colleagues, I thank you for the great support we got so far and we hope you continue enjoying Ecchi Sensei.
So long,
Blue
(Yes this may have been posted before but here it is again.)
