Hi, everyone.
First of all, I want to welcome all new patrons. We reached my second goal on patreon and passed the new milestone of over 300 patrons. I'm super grateful to everyone. I really hope you enjoyed the latest update. Your support and kind words really inspire me to work harder and improve to bring you even better and bigger updates.
That brings me to the first topic of this post, which is hardware. This dev update gonna be more about my thoughts than just a progress report.
Hardware
So the second goal means it's time to finally upgrade my hardware. I've been upgrading some stuff during the development, but the most important thing is a GPU, of course. For a long time, my plan was to get myself a 3090 when the time comes. I've been doing some research the whole week, and unfortunately, there's not much to choose from. It's whether mostly factory-refurbished stuff from trusted brands(asus, msi, gigabyte), which costs less, but I just don't want to risk it. Or some garbage like inno3d, zotac etc. There are a few normal, non-refurbished cards from msi and asus, but the price is too high and the difference from 4090 is about $300, which is not that much.
So after some research and thought, I decided that if I was going to upgrade, then I should upgrade to the best. Which is 4090, of course. Buuut obviously they cost more, and apart from GPU itself, I'll also have to upgrade my PSU. And the only right choice for such a high-end PC is a new ATX 3.0 generation PSU with PCIe 5.0 support. And it also cost a lot. I may have to even upgrade my case, as I'm not sure that everything will fit in my current one. Which also has to have good airflow, and such models are usually also pretty pricey.
So, as you see, this is a dilemma. Risk with low-quality 3090 from some shitty brand, get 3090 from a trusted brand but by the price of almost 4090, or go for a 4090, but that means extra expenses for other stuff. The good thing about the last option is that I most likely will be able to build a second PC with my current card dedicated to rendering animations full-time. Or even static renders while posing new scenes on my main PC. So I haven't decided yet. I guess I won't rush on this and will think better about it as it's important. If we maintain the same level of support from you guys, I'll definitely go for the last option in a few months. If not, then will see.
Next update
I took a small break after the release and started working on the next update recently. It is currently in the pre-production stage. Just working on this update outline, thinking about which scenes to include, looking for assets etc.
As the time comes, and my updates get bigger as well as the number of fans and supporters, it's essential to include as much content with different girls as possible. Thankfully, we finally have more lewd options apart from Liu and Octavia which were the only options at the beginning of the game which annoyed many, I know)
It's hard to maintain this balance between story progression and lewd scenes, especially tight it all together with different paths and choices. I won't lie, for me, tracking this stuff and planning different branches is one of the most challenging things in game development.
Anyways, I plan a lot of lewd scenes in this update (for every path), one big free-roam event and a few surprises. This free-roam event will take the biggest part of the update. There's actually no need to keep it a secret since it's been mentioned in the dialogues a few times, and I'll have to show you previews anyway. This is gonna be a club event and it'll be my main focus. So don't expect a lot of the main story progression. Still not sure how I'll code this, but I hope I'll manage this. It'll also be great if I update my GPU by the time I start working on this as it'll require a lot of memory to make it look good with crowds, many main characters in the scene etc. But I believe I'll be able to make this even on my current card, it just won't look as good as it could. So I guess we'll have plenty of polls this time for each girl's outfit, maybe makeup and hairstyle. It'll also require more work on extras for the scenes, maybe some side characters, as well as a lot of work on new environments and stuff.
So to sum up. The outline for this update is almost ready. Just need to decide on a few things and finish my flowchart, prepare plans for the scenes in trello and next week I'll start writing. After the scripts for the first scenes will be ready, I'll start posing. I really hope there won't be any problems with the power. If everything is all right, the estimated time to complete this update will be around three months. But it's just a rough time frame, as it'll take as long as it takes. I won't set any deadlines like always. You know that I won't release an unfinished game until I'm happy with everything. Even if it will take extra time.
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Have a nice weekend and stay safe!
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