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72 hour notice for 8.3.1 Final A (Dec 24th planned release)
Hi everyone!
I am leaving out of the country for my honeymoon VERY soon but been using this past week to manage a lot of life change obviously! I am posting something from another document and editing so sorry!
First, I have to start this with a somber note – I want to express my thoughts and prayers to anyone impacted by what happened at Brown University. (it looks like they caught the guy as he seemed to kill himself in a storage unit in New Hampshire). A few know this, but Brown University was a strong finalist in my final college choice and I loved the place so so much but ultimately went with what I felt was a better fit for me! Even so, I was VERY close to attending Brown (I visited this school and two others at least five times) and it was a tough decision for me in the end but I still visited the university multiple times during my time at where I went to school. I have ties there and thankfully no one I know was impacted at all but I was spooked when it first happened a lot. It's the kind of peaceful and even cozy/small place (it's very small for a university) you'd never imagine that happening… but it did.
Second, thank you for the kind well wishes about my marriage! It was a lovely ceremony and we won out against our parents in limiting the guests to 100 people so we could use a private estate which was awesome! My husband (wow it's still amazing to say that instead of fiance!) was so wonderful, amazing, and yes…so fucking hot! And a lot of this week was just tons of paperwork and prep for things while we're gone for our honeymoon! Passing off business stuff, personal care of our places, pets, etc. We were also seeing off most family as most couldn't stay more than one week so quite a bit are going back home for Christmas, but about 8 to 10 or so are staying through the end of the month. I'm so thankful, content, and full of joy… and just thank you! I literally feel blessed, lucky, and feel like I won the lottery that matters… just being happy to wake up and feel content about life!
"Ok Tess, that's great but the game?"
Ok, ok!
I have finished the editing phase of 8.3.1FinalAG6 (which means it's the entire version with animations and all scenes EXCEPT working a bit more on Game 6 – 171 animations are in this version and will come with Final A. Two other testers have run through the entire update and there has been only one weird crash found that I can't replicate yet. But it seems that if you save and load the same slot over and over in the save slot menus and not "play" in the game (going back into the game and progressing a bit before reloading/saving) before doing it over and over... it can crash the game so maybe note that possibility.
I am writing a bit more on Game 6 because I'm desperately trying to get it out ASAP. Here is my hope:
Sunday night: Game 6 currently has 70 renders done. The entire scene is longer but we have debated sending out with Final A about 105 renders from the scene and seeing if we can either put in a little more for FInal B (likely coming out within 4-5 days of A usually absent massive errors) or splitting the scene to start the rest of it in 8.3.2. I am trusting her to make the right call on this but it has to kind of work overall narratively.
The K1 scene -- which I had intended to be only about 50 renders as a fun test... is actually now 141 renders!
Note on K1 scene: Remember to save at the choice if I provide a warning about K1 saving! So err I kind of screwed up my planning and take full responsibility for that scene ending up way too long. The evil Claudia dom scene (some previews below) which I had intended to be about 100 renders... ended up over 200! (I think exactly 215 renders). So I kind of went from in my head 150 renders in time planning to ending up to almost 350 just for these two scenes! These scenes impacted Game 6 a bit with overall time management and that's on me.
I have given Anais a hard dealine of Wednesday, December 24th morning Hawaii time or later in the day for most time zones. I think it might be done a bit sooner depending if we try to get beyond 105 renders for that scene or not... I'm 99 percent confident everything would be done by then absent some crazy crap not found yet.
It is VERY important to me to get it out before Christmas so I am pushing very hard.
I do apologize for the unusually long difference in time between Test and Final this time but I do think this is the one time I have a good life reason! Plus, I have three scenes being added and my outro which is a bit more than normal and even just those two scenes I mentioned are 350 more renders.
If Final A releases without many errors, Final B should come fast. The intent of A is that saves should work for the next update but I still recommend people make a save under "FinalB" if they want to be absolutely sure (you can just load from your A version, play a moment, and resave under Final B). Final A will be Windows/Mac versions. Any other versions are not usually worked on until Final B just because it's more difficult to make an Android version until it's kind of really done and final.
As this always comes up, I will ask Anais to switch the links provided in the post if it gets overrun to throttling so the release post may be edited if necessary with new links.
I am not sure what previews went out (I haven't even unfortunately been on Patreon yet for a while until now) so just throwing out some I see from different things. Again, thank you all and it's coming soon!
I will honestly take this full honeymoon off to not think about anything but being in the moment and enjoying myself but I trust things will go well! I will definitely be back refreshed and excited to tackle things again! I've had an insane 2025 with time crunch but it looks like 2026 should be a lot better!
I love and appreciate all of you for everything!
Love,
Tess