Roughly every 4 months? Sometimes a little more often sometimes a little less. Depends on things like writers block and time to animate. The developer actually hired an animator(Part time i think?) to help with some of the scenes. His last update on patreon is copied below, seems to be aiming for end of December or early January. Last update was 2024-09-19 putting him at around the 3 or 3.5 month mark. Not bad for a solo dev with maybe some part time help:
Hey guys,
Just a quick development update this time. As planned, I spent the last month or so mainly focused on writing. To fill in all the gaps from Chapter 2 and to write the Chapter 2 ending, I probably need somewhere around 100,000 words of dialogue. As you can imagine a month isn’t anywhere near enough time to clear that kind of backlog. However, I have made a dent in it and I had time to get some stuff clear in my head. I still plan to release a mini-update (version 0.16.4) sometime around Christmas, which is only a couple of months away. So, it’s already time for me to get back to work with rendering and animations.
My three main priorities for the upcoming mini-update are; Liz’s next punishment (featuring Sally’s new outfit); oral services from Lucy on Saturday morning; and the remaining cafe scenes with the new cafeteria uniform. I’ve already made very good progress with the cafe stuff and with Lucy’s new scene. I think I probably only need another couple of weeks to get those wrapped up. Liz and Sally’s stuff is more complicated, however, I have done most of the storyboarding and I have the draft animations. So, hopefully, that won’t take more than a few weeks to put together. Then, fingers crossed, I might have time to fit a few little extras in the mini-update. There are some bits for Amy and Debbie from the staff training storyline that would be next on my list. I will have to see how I get on though.
I should have enough of the images rendered for the mini-update to put a batch of preview pictures together soon. I will aim to release those in the next week or two.
Altos