About Previews, Monthly Report and Current State

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well! ❤️

Thanks to you amazing people, I am now capable of purchasing the premium clothing assets for the game instead of depending on what is "leaked." I have also gone back and purchased the assets used in the first release, so around half of this months income gone to that. 

Clothing is something that I really care for, and I really really don't want to spoil what Ashley is wearing with previews. Trust me, your patience will pay off when the update is released.

Here is what I've done so far this month:

• 98 renders currently

• 6 animations

• I've created a Python script to automatically screenshot the text messages one by one from the HTML file and create a RenPy script from the results. (For the previous version I had to manually screenshot each message, it was time consuming, not anymore!)

• I have improved the text message interface to make it more immersive

• Textbox is now smart and it automatically removes the background if it is blocking something "important" 🤤

• Spent some time with the sounds, I highly suggest having a headphone for the left-right panning

Currently we have 98 new renders and 6 new animations, excluding the text message screenshots. Keep in mind each image you see is taking 40 minutes, just to render, with the animation frames there are around 300 renders... So I waited 200 hours for the renders to complete. This is without considering the renders I discarded and re-done, time I spent for posing the characters, and the time I spent on post works with Photoshop. (Almost 1/4th of renders with Ashley has a poking nipple which I need to remove manually.)

With the writing and tons of other stuff, I had absolutely zero life this month, all the while doing a night shift job. But make no mistake, I love doing this even if it takes time and effort. My enjoyment of creating something probably surpasses your enjoyment of playing it. I want to live my life doing this.

I know this post sounds like a poor play to gain your sympathy, because it is! 🙈 A lot of people are urging me to release the next update through messages as if I have a magic wand. Which is OK, I understand your impatience, but I would really appreciate if you also acknowledged the effort I put in.

Anyway, sorry for the long post,

Have a good one! ❤️