Branded To Fall Dev Update 10/05/26

Hey hey!

It's that sweet update time! 0.7 is coming along great so far, with a lot of the events I want to do planned out ahead ready for the art I'll need and plenty of event writing done too. I'm incredibly excited for some of the scenes that are going to be in this one as we're getting to some of the much spicier content for both of these routes! I won't say too much as I don't want to give things away, or worse, get up hopes for something that may not make it in, but fan's should be eating very good with this one.

Art wise I've been sorting a tonne of outlines for new CG's and animations. Which means I've had to subject my artist to lots of my terrible terrible stick man drawings I make in paint to show off the idea I have for the scene. I might make a post at some point showing a bunch of those off as they really are comedy gold and a testament to my lack of drawing capabilities. I've also got to outlining sprites for two characters which I'm very excited for. One I think I'm jumping the gun with the outline so likely won't see the light of day too quickly, but the other I'm wanting to include in the next release if I can, which brings me to my next topic.

What do I want to include in the next update outside of Jen and Charlotte content? Well, I've had a lot of thoughts on this. As I've been itching the do the next Leandros scene since I finished his last one as I know it's going to be spicy! Vanessa and Seren I'm also super excited for what I have planned next (and I have A LOT for Vanessa planned already). Then there's also the dating system, which it would be good to get a start on as I feel the game is sorely lacking in the Cam and El interactions with just the two of them. So what did I decide? Probably none of these, as I honestly want to flesh out the maid job at the dukes to at least get it to a state to be repeatable and show off a bit more with the Duke and his family. Now this isn't set in stone, but it is what I'm thinking would be nice extra stuff to include in this Charlotte and Jen main focussed update.

Not to yap on too much, but I did want to expand a little more on my thoughts for the "dating" system with Cam and El. So my plans for this are that when playing as one you can find the other active in the world (possibly dependent on what routes you've advanced with them) and ask them to spend time together. This could be simple stuff like going to the spa or the park, or it could be going the forest on a job together. During these I want to flesh out Cam and Elora more as a couple and allow for romantic and sexual interactions, but I also want the dates to be interruptible by people whose routes you have advanced enough. For example at the spa maybe Leandros is using the sauna and see's an opportunity to get some special fun with El, or maybe Charlotte tries to drag Cam away with a massage offer. These interruptions will be refusable and avoidable, but I think they add to the fun potential of this system. This does lead to it being quite a chonky piece of work to get it how I want it to be, hence why I don't really want to get started on it straight away. So I think I'll put up a poll to see if people would like me to focus on this for an update in the future (probably 2 or 3 down the line), alongside the new bar content as the bar will be a date location, or if people would prefer I just chip away at it in the background over the course of many updates with main update focus for foreseeable future updates remaining on corruption routes. I'll likely throw this poll out to followers this week, along with the one asking which main routes people are most excited to see continue or get more content in the future now everyone ahs a bit of something to show off their route.

I feel I've rattled on a bunch, so I'll end it here before it feels like you're reading war and peace. As always, thank you all so much for the love and support, and have an amazing week!

-BaconSoap