Dev Diary #5 - "The First Course" Arc - 0.7.0

Hey everyone,

Week went by in a flash. Overdue on this one but it's been a productive week.

Status:

Production on 0.7.0 is underway. New workflow of scene by scene rather than building everything in parallel means I'm still getting used to it but it's clicking. Already a lot to be said on this one but I'll leave out the technical boring details from dev diaries.

Made good progress this past couple of weeks but I know everyone wants dates and specifics.

Not quite there yet, but in the next diary I'm aiming to give you more visibility into scene progress.

The Poll:

A lot of votes! +400 votes!

Ayumi with other guys at 66% as top choice. This is an NTS game at its foundation, no surprise there. (Most vanilla is Yuri NTS which still counts as NTS)

Swinging at 24% as a first choice caught my attention though. For a game that started 100% in NTS territory, a quarter of you picking mutual exploration as your top priority tells me something I've felt too.

The game is about exploration and relationship boundaries as a whole, not just one-sided. That's been the vision since the remake and it's good to see the appetite for it.

Yuri at 1% as a sole first pick doesn't surprise me... but it's such an under-served market! Some of that content is still key to the story and to specific characters' development so it's staying, and I hope it receives some love nonetheless.

MC with other girls at 3%... huh.

For those who downloaded 0.6.1:

Some of you already found the little surprise in the files. For those who haven't... might be worth poking around.

Hint: Check the images for day4.

Back next Sunday with scene progress and a Platinum preview.

Cheers,
Tori