Update from Dev
Notice - More about current progress.
Hello again everyone!
While we promised in the previous post to tell you more about the full list of changes in the next update, I'd like to talk a bit about the development process itself and where it's at now.
We very rarely talk about it, as we are constantly immersed in working on the game, so I thought it would be a good idea to compensate for that.
I'll post the full changelog of the v0.4 update in another article very soon, as I don't want to make this one any longer.
At the moment, all images and video animations have been completed. Right now, our small team is polishing the text from the script so that it can match the new content. This is taking a bit longer than expected, we still need 2-3 days to polish it.
In addition, I also need to add all the screen and sound effects in Renpy (4-5 days). After that we will ask Saumonfume8 to proofread the EN translation (3-5 days).
Maxim already finished his part of version 0.4, but he is not sitting still either (more on that later).
A quick word about the current pace of development. Lately, due to power problems, I could only work on average 3 hours at 9 hour intervals.
This creates some limitations and difficulties, especially when it comes to the lack of a normal sleep schedule, since every 24 hours there is a natural shift in the schedule of 3 hours ahead.
However, I'm not writing this post to complain because, to tell you the truth, I'm not used to it and I don't like doing it. Besides, I don't have time to do it too, heh.
However, in all other aspects except sleeping, I have managed to adapt quite well to my surprise.
During the blackouts, I simply write the main parts of the future game's events scenario on my phone, along with many notes of all kinds.
Even now, I'm writing this text on my phone to save time when I'm at my PC.
So you can be sure our work on the game does not stop for a minute, even if we have to work on multiple updates at the time.
Also, it is important to note that during all this time, a lot of work has been done on the v0.5 update as well. For example, the visual design of the rest of the memory system is already finished, the main plot of all planned events has been written in detail, etc. All this means that Hot Springs Academy v0.5 developement will be much shorter than v0.4's.
As mentioned before, Maxim finished his part a long time ago and at the moment, he has no more tasks for v0.4. So he started and managed to implement better surface reflections in the game, as well as testing dozens of their variants already.
At the moment, he is improving the quality of textures for Utagachi, and fixing visual bugs for dozens of images.
Of course, the changes did not affect all the images in the game, but only the ones we considered the most important. You'll see all the listed graphical improvements will be visible in the very first event of the game very soon, as well as in a dozen other events.
Also, during the development of this update, we both managed to find new tricks in the game editor.
This means that the poses, facial expressions and physics of the girls' sexy body parts will be even better and more natural than before.
You'll be able to see it by yourself in the new update.
We are confident that you will enjoy it all, as we tried to make all the new content as interesting as possible during the second game day.
At the same time, we made sure that the new changes fit seamlessly into the story.
We can't wait for you all to try the new 0.4 update.
Thanks again to everyone for your continued support and kind words.
See you all later!
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