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Hi everyone!
I hope everyone enjoyed the latest update or will for those just getting it now! I have so many bullet points I want to cover, and I think I am going to split it into this and next week because it's so long, but I will mention as much as I can right now!
1. Overall Patreon Post - This week, I will update the pinned post for the overall page and include the latest 0.8.1 links but keep up the Episode 1-7 links because they are also necessary to enjoy the game properly!
2. My main goal this week will be to write a good walkthrough for the latest release and then make a post with the link and also update it to the overall pinned post for the page. A walkthrough is not really difficult but it is very time consuming as I usually have to read the entire script slowly line by line, and lay out as much as I can in a clear manner with split paths and even color coding it in a decent way. I am not as good at this style of writing versus freeflow/creative but I always give it my all and will try and even get a little help. Given how I do a lot of small alternate dialogue for certain prior choies, I may not literally include every iteration in that sense. However, I will try and include all relevant choices from the past and how they impacted this update, the current choices and what happens, and even choices in the update and how they may be relevant beyond this episode. So that will be a primary task for me this week and I wanted to do it at home instead of while traveling because I can use nice big screens to look at the script while having another screen to write the walkthrough, etc.
3. The poll results were not that shocking to me, other than the the pure strength of Veronica with glasses! I will be creating a dom poll this week sometime, but please feel free to leave suggestions how to include people this time. I was thinking of just doing the same exact people, but I am open to suggestions! Maybe including more people?
4. I will be shopping for a new computer this month with the primary purpose of purchasing it in April right after I know my exact tax payment, haha! My assistant Anais is also going through this same process (will mention more about her and the game she is doing next time perhaps) so we are going to kind of shop together. After I get a RTX 4090 based computer, I will likely take a week to move everything over, but I will still keep rendering some on my current computer while doing that at the same time. This should be really helpful for a bit of better speed and ease of use. I'm looking forward to it, and wanted to wait until an update was out as I was worried about doing anything funny close to a release! If anyone smart about computers knows good deals, always open to hearing that too!
5. Recruitment -- I will be posting in the next week to ten days a formal post for recruitment to help out a bit, likely on here and on Discord. It is kind of jointly with Anais but I will be specific as to what I am seeking versus what she might need, etc. More on that later, but the basic needs for me right now in order of priority are 1) a little animation help if you are experienced in this work 2) abiliity to create UI looks and link them to the basic code of the game which I think is Renpy/Python (not a tech person unfortunately). I have tried MANY times to hire basic rendering/art help and it has been very difficult to find matches. But never closed to that idea. Anais will have much more specific requirements/needs (she is more tech than I) but I tend to go with vibe/feel a lot more with ideas and how I work.
6. I have very carefully considered ALL the feedback I got regarding the very evil dom path (demon flag) of the game. As I have said before, this prior episode was the most difficult for me - not the game stuff itself - but in terms of dealing with certain issues with people. Almost all of these problems originated from a small core of people that were by and large fans of this specific path. While I have certainly had my share of "normal" problems from the sub and other dom paths which is more similar to just dealing with thirsty men comparable to real day to day life, this stuff above is on a different level. Any attorney or psychiatrist familiar with certain legal definitions of certain specific behavioral terms/standards would most likely agree with my assessment that I was sometimes dealing with emotionally damaged human beings. So while I feel bad in a way of course, I also don't deserve to bear that either. I'm just a random game dev doing something I enjoy and hoping others have fun too. I never have or will deny that everything I do in life is for family/friends/me first (I wouldn't make this game if I didn't get personal enjoyment from it as it's easier to make money in other ways) but of course I want people to enjoy it too! Remember everyone, this is just a game.
So with that in mind, I am still going write/render the game the exact same as before and do the demon flag content, but I am going not going to include that entire path in the Test Version of Part II. I am going to see what happens (I don't want to tip off what I am looking at but it's more than one thing) and if certain things do/don't happen a certain way, I will then include that path in the Beta Version/Final of Part II. If it goes a certain other way, I will abandon that path for good with a sigh of resignation but acceptance. So we'll see how it goes.
Keep in mind I am NOT talking about the normal dominant Kane say trying to build a harem/fuck around or get with a specific female and trying to gain power, etc. I am talking about the more extreme dom content. (I haven't really done this too much yet but I had more planned that was a bit stronger than ever, etc.)
7. Oh yes, Part II update. I haven't got too far into things yet as I am wrapping up Part I and have the walkthrough this week. But, I did write now four scenes, and some basic rendering has started.
I haven't checked the word count, but I know I have reached about Line 500 of the code for the script, and Part I ended up about 13,000 lines. I also have about 30 renders already done, three of which are included above although I am tweaking one of those with something I don't quite like entirely.
Ok, I feel like I have written a bunch, but I actually had more bullet points but will move them for next week. Most of what is not here is a bit more detail about Part II, but let's wrap up all admin/Part I stuff first. I have formally on my own sense "started" the clock on Part I starting March 1, 2024 so I tend to think in the macro sense that I want Part II doing by X date based on this start date.
Ok, I am going to get to the walkthrough a bit today and also look for the dom poll this week! Any suggestions, concerns, or anything else always feel free to contact me here or on Discord, thank you so much!