Branded To Fall Dev Update 24/05/26

Hey hey!

Dev update time! Oh boy do we have some fun things to talk about today! Lets start it off with the elephant in the room, the lack of devlog last week. Well I posted the character popularity poll the day before and I didn't want it to lose traction by being completely overwritten by the devlog. On top of this I also kind of wanted to build up to have a more substantial update then just "yeah its going well, did more Jen and Charlotte stuff".

So lets get straight into the fun question, "how did the poll turn out?". Well some parts were expected, but there were more then a few shake ups and then some! Top two spots are still held by the power sisters, Jen and Charlotte. However third place, in an absolute sprint from his middle position before is Leandros! I wasn't expecting it, but I'm very happy to see it as the next Leandros scene I am itching to work on and have had planned for a long time now! Following this up, in another surprise mad climb is the duke/more maid job content! Very closely behind followed by the bar, and then Vanessa and Seren. To say I was shocked by this change up is an understatement, but I am so happy to see the variety showing in peoples top picks and to see some of the male characters rising those ranks too! I will say the duke was probably the most surprising, given him now having probably the least content of the routes listed, but I share peoples excitement for his and the maid jobs content is going. I'm also very happy to say I was already planning to progress the maid job with this update, and will be doing so as some of the content not Charlotte and Jen related!

Speaking of not Charlotte and Jen related stuff, to string you all along a bit further, you've seen the banner for todays post and can we will have two new character sprites coming in this update as well! I'm very intrigued to hear peoples thoughts and ideas from this very limited teaser of them, but I'd love to know who people think they could be or what anyone's thoughts are from the silhouettes! I will give a hint, that they are new characters, and one of them is linked to the maid job (for El at least ;) ).

Looping back round to the poll chat like a terribly structured English essay, I was happy to see that there were absolutely no characters or routes with 0 votes. In fact there were no characters or routes with less then at least 5 votes! For a tier locked poll, where I asked for limited picks, this makes me so damn happy to see! I'm so glad that all of the content has people out there putting it in their favourite routes, or routes they most want to see continue and it fills me with so much happiness knowing that it's all being enjoyed!

Finally, the progress on the omegaupdate ("about bloody time bacon!"), well it's going incredibly well. I've received an animated scene from my artist this week that might have the most images of any scene so far, and I've been working on heavily outlining the writing the scenes for the rest of what I want in this update. Honestly, it's going to come down mostly to how much my artist can get done in a reasonable time frame, but stuff is firing off the presses for the moment. I've got some great bits of character interactions sorted this week on top of the writing for a few very spicy scenes that I ran away with the writing for much more then expected. I'm starting to realise my preference for having scenes that arent just three lines of dialogue then done does lead me to write essays for my spicy scenes, but I so much prefer it that way with more of a look into the characters mindsets and interactions instead of grunts.wav.

Anyway, I'm starting to worry I've saved up too much to talk about so I'll stop yapping your ears off and leave it there for this week. As always, thank you all so much for the love and support, and have an amazing week!

-BaconSoap

p.s. public release of 0.6 is this Tuesday, forgot to say