PROGRESS REPORT #150

Hello everyone, welcome to the 150th progress report!

I don't really have anything special to report in the way of progress. I reached my goal of beginning work on side-scenes, I guess that's something, but last dev cycle can really be summarized in a simple statement: it's all been smooth sailing so far.

I don't really have a specific goal in mind for the 10th of September, other than having made the most amount of renders that I can. I'm not even sure which scene I'll be working on next once I'm done with the current one. The order doesn't really matter once main story scenes are done...

Anyway, there's still an important subject that needs to be talked about today, which concerns spoiler posts.

I think sharing a certain (mostly fixed) amount of spoilers on a schedule has been a bad way of handling spoilers. I think the "on a schedule" part, as in every 10 days like I do, is the clearest issue in the matter. Sometimes I don't really have anything special to share in development, and that's normal. Maybe I'm working on a more boring part of the story, or something that's best kept secret to be revealed only for the release. And so sometimes I'm kinda forced to share something that's kinda meh for the sake of honoring my part for the people who pay to see what I have to share. But that cheapens all the other posts, because by that point the very fact that a spoiler post has been released has already become more of something that "kinda happens", rather than an event. When you see a spoiler post, you think "well, maybe that one's gonna suck", rather than "oh, the dev has produced something exciting, and he wants to share it", kinda thing. The surprise effect is ruined by the fact that it's on a schedule as well.

So anyway, from now on (after today), there won't be any more scheduled spoiler post. Instead, you'll be able to expect a surprise spoiler post every now and then, but probably less often on average. I understand this is a big change in what's being offered for your support, but I truly think that the way I'll be handling spoilers will make them more valuable in the long run, rather than less.

There also has been an idea brewing in my mind about adding an additional counterpart for you guy's support which would concern the Manager and the Investor subs as well, but the last months have been very busy, and working on the update has taken priority. I'll try to expedite that in the coming weeks.

That's all I have for you today. Cheers :)