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About the v1.0.0
After the general release of v0.9.5, I took a couple of days off and started working on the next update on June 12-13. This is what I managed to do in that time.
1) The following events are written:
- big main event with Lexi (the first part of casting call)
- event with Roxy
- event with Carol (+ a little bit of Abby in this scene)
- small event with Carol and Yuki (3 versions depending on MC's relationship with Carol)
- big event with Yuki (like a date, but in the style of Yuki's story)
In addition, two more events will be added to this list based on the results of
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. I don't think I have time for anything else.
2) Renders and animations:
About 160 renders and 5 animations are ready
3) Other things:
- I optimized the game code a little bit
- I added the ability to get the name of the song playing with a special button. Now you don't have to use PVU Radio to find the song you like
- I made some minor changes to the dialogues from previous versions. More to come
I'm not sure of a release date for v1.0.0, but I have a feeling I'll be able to get the next update done by the end of July.
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Other important news
1) Monthly payments for active patrons will resume in July.
As many of you may remember, since March of this year I put Patreon's billing on pause (4 months in total). Initially, I planned to take a break for only one month for personal reasons, but it turned out that due to events in Eastern Europe, the pause in development was delayed for a much longer period than I had planned.
Now I'm almost back to the same pace of game development, but I'm still hesitant to release updates every month. At least for now.
This is largely because I'm not sure I can handle that kind of workload right off the bat after a long break. In addition, because of some health problems that I briefly mentioned
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, I can't afford to work on the game all day like I used to (instead of 6 days for 9-10 hours every week before, now I work 6 days for 8 hours).
But... Since I'm really hoping to release v1.0.0 by the end of July, I've decided to resume billing. But I don't know yet how I'm going to set up my work after July (read more below), so I'll let you know about billing in August and the following months later.
2) Version 1.0.0 - is it ready to be called "UoP: Chapter 1" or something like that?
At the moment, the Basic version of the game has a size of about 4 GB. And that's quite a lot even considering that I use compression for images and music (otherwise the game would be about 8-10 GB or even more). That's why I'm thinking about splitting the game into several parts.
Besides that, uniting all the content that will be in v1.0.0 into a separate part would be a great solution to create a kind of milestone for UoP and start publishing it on Steam.
But for now, these are just my thoughts. This is quite a complicated and serious issue because it will take an enormous amount of work. Mostly because I want to redo the initial part of the game...
3) About the remake of the beginning part of UoP
No news so far. In the past two months, I've redone only a tiny part of content to write about it.
I still think I should redo the beginning of UoP with current updates' quality so that new players are interested in UoP and not horrified by those a little bit ugly renders and immediately delete it (I mean renders and animations before v0.2.5).
I'll also need to make new animations, rewrite some dialogues, redo the MC's diary a bit and much more... In short, there will be a lot of changes.
That's why I'm not sure yet about the structure of my work after July. Maybe I'll take 1-2 months to completely finish my work on all content up to v1.0.0 and only after that start working on the next updates of UoP. Or maybe I won't stop and keep going develop new updates in the same mode...
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That's all the news for now.
Stay well and safe, guys.
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Best wishes,
Dream Now
