Branded To Fall Dev Update 22/03/26

Hey hey!

It's dev update time! Progress is going great on the next update, this week I've implemented one of the biggest scenes animation wise that the game has so far. It was incredibly fun to write and I love how it's come out as a whole. I'm really looking forward to seeing peoples thoughts and feelings when the update drops. On top of this I've been tinkering around with some ways to make files smaller and also to make my life easier. The later I've had a pretty nice breakthrough on how I handle animations at the moment which will mean little to you all the player side, but for me means it's going to cut down setting up animations from 50 minutes to 5, which is great! This also might let me find a way to really cut down on the file size of some of those really bulky animated scenes, but that's something I need more time and testing with to make sure there's no quality loss or anything first.

Next up let's talk about the big thing last week, the side content poll!! This was incredibly interesting to see, especially compared to the first poll in which there was only one vote. Speaking quickly on that one, you'll be able to see the futa side content that won that one in the next update. Anyway, back to the latest poll! It was really interesting to see the bar take such a leading roll, with the most combined votes over both platforms being incredibly close between the Playboy and more general bar scenes, with the femboy content for both Cam and El, and scenes with Cam and Red (the waitress in the bar) also being incredibly close in 3rd and 4th. The femboy option making it so high was very interesting to see, as I added that option to see if people would be interested in that content as a side thing, and turns out you very much are, to the point it came so highly in the list!

Back to the bar though, looking at the spread over the characters involved and the setup I already have in the bar, further escalation there for how I want it to work will be A LOT of art. On top of this I already released a huge bar update that was meant to tide the bar over and keep it fresh for a while still with the customer variety. This puts me in a bit of a pickle as to how to approach the next bar content. What I'll likely do is start working on the art little by little to avoid having an entire "BAR UPDATE!" as I really don't want to drop a whole update that is only to do with side content and none of the main routes. In the mean time, I'll likely look to start progressing Tristan's content and add some more fun with the playboy in order to make sure it does get some content in the coming updates. I currently have something pretty big planned that I'm hoping to be able to finish sooner rather then later though, so once I'm done with that, I'll move on to the bar being my background extra. (I'm still not revealing what this is yet, shhhhh.)

For the other content in the polls, it was great to see that combined, everything got quite a few votes, meaning there's nothing there that everyone was thinking "what the fuck is that bacon, no", which is always nice. It was interesting to see in contrast to the bar holding the top spots, one of the bar routes also holds the bottom spot. However I do think that may be more my own fault for not being able to explain the route properly without massive spoilers. I'll get round to all these side routes eventually, but it's nice to have a good idea which I should be focussing on a bit more and a bit sooner. Also clothing store fans don't despair, it received quite a hefty amount of votes and will not be forgotten entirely in favour of the bar job. Neither will the dukes maid job either, however that gets a little more love with it being tied to a main corruption route (I know, special treatment right?).

I did have more I could blab on about, but this dev update is looking chonky enough already with my blabbing about the polls, so I'll leave it here. There will be some more polls soon, with a big one about Jen and Charlotte content in the next updates coming probably this week, and another few polls regarding the main route preferences themselves once the next update is out.

As always, thank you all for the love and support, and have an amazing week!

-BaconSoap