To better help fans understand the ongoing development,
monthly status updates are being posted here on Patreon (at the end of each month) with a listed summary of all the work that's been done for each department. It won't list every single small change, but at the very least show the broad strokes of what's currently being done. This will paint a clearer picture of the development progress and perhaps get a feeling of how close we are getting to a release each month. Hopefully this will make some of you feel at ease with some of the questions you've had.
That being said, here's the status update for this past month!
Art:
- The new museum location will now be open to visit (lobby only for now). All day time variants were created during the last week's live streams.
- Continued assisting the Code/Posing devs with optimizing art and fixing inconsistencies. Such as unused art assets , missing shadows, missing character button variants and so on.
- Debbie laundry basket scenes and buttons improved and consistent now.
- Improved park bush assets and added tree overlay for button.
- Fixed Melonia home cabinet in kitchen and added overlay for button.
- Last inventory icons finished.
- Various old background touchups.
- New sign at Comic store when characters are not yet present for quest (Bridget).
- Jenny computer pictures have been redone to match art quality across game and also used as wallpapers.
- Multiple assets renames to function with new codebase.
- Fixed and improved 2 cutscenes in Diane's garden.
- Created dusk variants to multiple background locations.
- Debbie basement buttons rework and new art.
- New Jenny scene leading up to the movie date has been added.
- Two new attic spy hole scenes were added for Jenny, and 1 was fixed.
- 30+ new assets were created to add Jenny pregnancy body assets earlier in her story.
- Judith school locker improvements.
- Few cutscenes have been redone to match current art quality and currently being added as wallpapers as well (Roxxy and Judith respectively)
- Daily live streams for art are still active (week days) starting around 2:00PM Eastern Time (ET) where you can watch me work and ask questions.
Code:
- Rebuilt the in-game computers (belonging to Anon and Jenny) in widescreen.
- Reorganised, split, and edited PSDs pertaining to computers.
- Wired in one-time remarks from Anon while browsing the computers.
- Created various equivalent vector assets for use with the computers.
- Ensured computers will be translatable and text-to-speech friendly.
- Updated the fibre-tip pen effect used in Jenny's diary.
- Reimagined a text tag for underlining typos (used in Jenny's laptop).
- Added a text tag for custom emojis.
- Upgraded Ren'Py to 8.1.1, and updated the CI pipeline to handle Android key changes.
- Revisited asset scaling and made it transparent to most other code.
- Expanded the asset pipeline to handle pixel art, video, and vector assets.
- Added information to help Ren'Py optimise certain game areas for performance.
- Improved a situation where mobile users would be unable to hide the keyboard.
- Eliminated a class of save issues related to showing dialogue over screens.
- Resolved an issue where scrolling would cease to work in the phone UI.
- Fixed various logic issues in the first half of Jenny's route.
- Started work on the latter half of Jenny's route, which remains in progress.
Posing:
- 100% of Jenny's route has been through the reposing.
- Finishing up the Girlfriend Experience and Jenny's Sex Scenes is the last things left to wrap up, plus minor tweaks.
- A few minor changes to Eve's Route (now at 99% completion)
- One out standing issue with Iwanka before finishing Main Route 2 completely.
- Continued with revisions and fixes for posing in Debbie's route
- Identified several art glitches and requested corrections. Debbie's lewd scenes are in progress.
- Added more files with framework for wiring Jenny, and started on the Jenny wiring.
- Requested and added new dialogues required by updated Debbie logic.
- Added dialogues and minor corrections to the first day tutorial.
- Reposing the remaining portion of the first Main story arc, Maria, Tony, Tina and Josie is also in progress.
- Resolved problems with assets and logic tests on Consuela's route.
Writing:
- Currently assisting Code with re-wiring story flow (mainly Jenny).
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Thanks for all your support and feedback!
-DC
