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Dev Update #53
It's all done, except for the testing and fixes. Once we have those completed, Chapter 7 (and the final installment in Volume 1) of To Be A King will be released. This last update nearly broke me a few times (not in the burnout way), but I am happy with what came out of it. Soon I'll have new stress as I start writing Chapter 8. As you'll see once Chapter 7 is released, we have quite a bit of story we need to work out.
It's a busy weekend for me with family commitments, so I don't expect to do a lot of bug fixing until next week, unless the beta team encounters something game breaking. That is one reason I really pushed the last 10 days to crush some render goals. I knew I'd be hitting some things in my schedule that would stop me from development work for a bit.
Thankfully I was able to get in about a full day of alpha testing on my end, so I'm fairly confident that any fixes requested by the beta team are going to be more simple ones. And boy does this chapter seem like a long one. If you have some of the main ladies who are the focus of this chapter in your harem, you are going to be playing for quite awhile.
Depending on how much I have to fix for Chapter 7 during the beta, I'll be working through my long list of to dos that I encountered during Chapter 7's development. After those are done, my attention turns to Chapter 8, which needs to be written before renders can start. No idea how long the writing will take, but I hope that it is much smoother than Chapter 7's writing.
Developing each release is several hundred (not a typo) hours, and I'm sure Chapter 8 will be no different. My process improvements help, but you can only reduce the time so much here. I get better (or at least I hope I do) each release. But there are always new things to experiment with, brain farts that happen, and just the grind of development (and it is a grind).
The good news is that the latest chapter of To Be A King should be available for download to patrons within a week or two (hopefully sooner). I hate long development cycles as much as you hate waiting, so we will see what I can do to get releases out more quickly without killing myself or drastically cutting content. Cassia is lobbying for me to make her the sole love interest, as, after all, who would want anyone else? And then I could get releases out more quickly too. I have a feeling fans of other ladies would not prefer this method for shorter development cycles.
Have a fantastic weekend, everyone! I'm done with previews and all that for Chapter 7. Likely the next post you see from me should be the release itself.
