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Progress Update - November 17, 2025


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Hi everyone,
Sorry it's been a while again. As we get close to a release, I tend to get stressed and go even quieter than usual, so I apologize. I'm still aiming for the end of the month, and I'll give you a definite release date as soon as I can.
Thanks for your patience and support,
DB
 

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I'm not as obsessed as you two. I have no idea how many threads I've started, but I do a pre-selection process. Do I like the story and/or the preview images, or not? According to my Ren-Py folder, I've played at least 250 visual novels. I usually start with the original English version and see if it's worth my while. Only about a fifth of these visual novels make it into my language. I save the folder "save" to my favorites under "Saved Games" and then delete the visual novels. I typically only keep an update for one or two hours before deleting it.

I only keep three visual novels completely, and this one is by far my favorite, for countless reasons!
I have 781 games in my current save folder and 5 x 4TB portable hdd's with games I've played on them with no duplicates. The number of complete games on those discs may be around 50 but properly completed around 26 in 20 years...
 

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V0.16.2 [Rework] Release Date

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RELEASE DATES



$5+ patrons:
Sunday, November 30th
$1 patrons: Sunday, December 7th
Billing will also resume on Sunday, November 30th.
Now for the bad news: old saves won’t work.
I’m really sorry about this, I know it’s a huge pain. Unfortunately, it ended up being unavoidable. I’ll create a set of saves for anyone who doesn’t want to replay everything and make them available before v0.17 comes out.
The reason this was necessary is because, when I first started Hillside, I had no idea what I was doing. And the code definitely shows it. As the project has grown, those early mistakes, especially confusing variable names, have made things harder and increased the chances of bugs. So I’ve renamed variables, cleaned things up, and reorganized the code.
I had hoped I could do all this without breaking old saves, but because of how the code was originally structured, that wasn’t possible. To make everything more resilient going forward, I had to restructure it, which took more time than expected.
Since saves were going to break anyway, I decided to finally switch to the latest version of Ren’Py. I’d been avoiding this for a long time because the big update from Python 2 to Python 3 caused save issues back then, so I stuck with the older version. But now we're using the latest version.
Because of this extra work, I didn’t finish everything I wanted to. I planned to improve Lucy and Kaylah’s first sex scenes. The scripts are written, but the images aren’t finished yet, so the updated scenes will be included in v0.17. I also wanted to fix the achievements, but have not done so. I’ll tackle that as soon as I can.
I’ll post a more detailed changelog with the release on Sunday.
Next week, I’ll start work on v0.17 and get back to posting the usual patron rewards, including weekly progress reports and pinups. The next set of preview images will likely come the following week.
Thank you for your patience and support,
DB
 
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