Thought I'd give a quick update since we're into February (already!?)
Breakfast is now completely written, coded, and rendered. Grace's event (see above) is fully written/coded and roughly 2/3 of the way rendered. I have about 20 renders yet to go, plus one animation. I had fun with it, and I think you'll enjoy learning about Grace from the perspective of her relationship with Abby (as a teammate).
Things will probably be a little less complicated with the other "midday" events. These will mostly be focused on developing relationships with girls Erisa didn't know before the cruise - and seeing them get to know each other as well. I'll get started on the second event once I finish with Grace's event (probably around this weekend).
Then there's the dinner dates, the group evening event, and day 3 endings. Most girls will have a date and there will be north of 4 endings to the day. So it's a lot. My work has also gotten really busy, so I've managed to go from losing time due to illness (I'm much better now - thank you all for your support and well-wishes!) to losing time due to my day job. It's been really frustrating, but I always saw this as a possibility, which is always why I've cautioned that I'd probably be a slow developer and never wanted to take anybody's money.
As far as the next release goes: I'm going to gauge where things are in March - if I feel like I'm speeding up, I'll launch a fully completed day 3 as soon as I can. If things are slower, I'm hoping to at least have things completed up through the dates, and would focus on a release at that point with the rest of day 3 to follow as soon as I can.
Thanks for hanging in there with me! As lengthy as the development cycle seems (at least to me), you'll have new cruise adventures before you know it!