Hello,
I used a small portion of a cinematic and uploaded a teaser to YouTube:
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(Video is attached at the bottom, too.)
People are understandably wondering about a release date.
I will handle it the same way as I always do. I will give an exact release date the moment everything is 100% done, and all that’s left is to click “Release”.
It’s likely that the release will be one day after I announce a date.
Somewhere in 2025, I mentioned in a Dev Log, that I’d be redoing about 300-500 renders, because I wanted to change the environment.
The reason was, I’ll need to work in this environment for at least the next two Seasons, and the previous environments I chose weren’t that great.
The reason why I’m mentioning it is that I showed previews of the old ones that aren’t in the game anymore.
Like this one:
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If you recall, I mentioned Mila can wear two outfits during this scene. I got rid of this one when I did the renders with the new environment.
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And she’ll now only wear this one.
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I didn’t get rid of it because it added a bit more work, but because I started to dislike the outfit. It’s too “cheap”.
Here is a preview of the new environment.
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I will publish a small collection of the deprecated renders from the old environment after the release. It had some good ones.
The cinematics are done. I still need to do some postwork on the polished renders, and the UI is mostly done too.
There is one Ui element I still need to properly code. It’s the screen where you select your Season 1 save.
The last 30% of the game still needs to be tested. I’m doing it completely alone right now, but I will soon give it to some friends of mine, then they can do their playthroughs and test it as well.
I’m preparing a Steam/GOG reviewer version of the game. A version where every single scene and event can be seen without them having to replay the game like 20 times.
I’m sure this will speed things up. It’s a little tricky to set up because they won’t be importing all those variables from Season 1. I’ll have to manually define them.
I still need to fill the gallery… But I’m thinking about deactivating it for the initial release and adding it like a month later.
Oh, while doing postwork, I saw a render of a person I hadn’t even previewed…
I’ll leave it here because she’s awesome and it makes a good final preview.
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