Announcement about Dec 24 - Jan 25
Hi everyone, just letting you know that we're changing up the usual reward structure for Dec & Jan. For a tl;dr skip to the bottom.
Rather than the standard rewards for both months, we will be taking the time to finish up and deliver a single large project that we have been working on for quite some time. The project? A full conversion of The Pill from Unity into Ren'Py.
This is an important step for us in terms of game stability (particularly on Android) and furthering the game's development. It also won't just be a straight port, but will have significant improvements over the current version including:
All existing chapters will be now fully voiced (adding over 1800 lines of VO)
A new tangential chapter will be added (featuring a new transforming gal)
Vastly improved load times
New UI tools such as skipping
New and remade achievements
Reworked and upressed animations for certain chapters
While functionally similar, the game will be running on completely different code and has been remade from scratch. Lady Grove has been working hand in hand on this mammoth undertaking with an unparalleled developer and because of all their hard work so far I am of the opinion this will be the best iteration of The Pill to date.
To be clear: any patron who is billed during either December or January at the Sweater Stretcher or Colossal Contributor tier will be given the game as a reward, however along the way we'll be doing sneak peeks at the new animations and voices, updates on our progress and other behind the scenes items as we finish this game conversion. We may even sneak in a cheeky x-mas vid if we can find the time馃槈
If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments.
tl;dr: We're using December and January to finish porting The Pill over to Ren'Py and are adding in a new chapter and a bunch of quality improvements.
Comments (20)
Just curious about this New and remade achievements does this mean we will need to reacquire the old achievements .
Unfortunately you will need to re-acquire them. Although we're listing this as version 0.7, it is a complete remake that shares no common code with the older versions, including save files.
just to be clear, after the release, will you be returning to the original rewards? or are you going to think about making other changes.
Current plan is to return to the original rewards in Feb but this is a test for potential bigger projects.
This sounds like a huge amount of work but it also sounds like you guys have got it figured out. Best of luck and I'm sure this investment will be worth it in the long run!
Thanks man, its a huge amount of work but we do think it will be worth it!
Are yinz working on another update for bountiful harvest? That is my favorite game! Excited for the update to the pill as well!
We're planning to make one to be released at some point next year, glad you like the game!
I just came back this month and I get hit with this oh my God I'm so excited
All the content has been more than worth the sub! Please take all the time you need and send Lady Grove our thanks for all her hard work!
Thank you! I am so excited for everyone to see it.
I'm so glad The Pill is gonna be updated! It's such a fun concept, with so much great content. Can't wait!
I have enjoyed the pill, but I keep this subscription active regardless. It's the only patreon I won't cancel during this financial stretch of mine
Thank you for all your support, it means a lot to us. Lots of fun to come with The Pill
So excited, I initially joined because of The Pill, but never actually played it because the android port didn't play nice with screen resolutions or something.
So glad to hear it! I hope that it'll work out perfectly and you'll finally be able to enjoy it.
i'm curious since we saw luca get through 脿 portal in the animation and that the chapter has a New transforming girl does it mean that the storyline with finding luca and maybe have her interract with trish and belle is finished ? plus will you add a hint system because certain ach猫vement like upsetting the machine is hard to get and i have still not got it
I can confirm that while the girl is new, the story will still link into those events! And we do have a thorough walkthrough already in development, another one of LG's projects.
Will the animated endings start getting included as well?
I was just coming here to ask the same question. Would be sweet to have the endings you've animated so far for belle included!