0.5 Development Update 12

There’s a poll down below, please take a look at it.

Hey, folks!

I think I haven’t mentioned this here before, but we started a little tradition called Nipple Wednesday over on our Discord server ( discord.gg/8D3FgkR in case you’re not there yet). I don’t want to spam you with single-image posts, so I’ll be including the images in the dev posts, I guess. I also post them over on my Twitter - https://twitter.com/zanith_one if you prefer it that way.

Anyway, here’s the fist Nipple(s):

And here’s the second one (two):

And back to our main feature. The update was released earlier this week, and boy was it sizable. More than 400 new renders added, five animation loops, and two of those are fivesomes, about 30 seconds each. Those of you with the alpha access, you know what I’m talking about. If you aren't, it's this:

Right now the second artist is back to working on the Rae’s Questions event remaster (including the updated handjob animations), and I’m fixing some minor issues with the animations and renders (clipping etc) and adding back some bits and pieces that were cut at the last moment. Just a couple of rendres, really, but some of those are kinda cute:

The Beta should be out sometime Monday/Tuesday, probably Tuesday, with all the fixes, restored cut bits and the aforementioned remaster.

And then we’ll move on to working on 0.5.4. It’s going to add more events to Lyriel’s story, more etherwalks to her homeworld, and… Yes, the first actual, penetrative, in-house sex scene with her.

So you can look forward to that, I guess.

Now. I wanted to talk about the update schedule with y’all. As you can plainly see, I can’t really do good biweekly updates.  I am more or less happy with the size of the last update, but it took three weeks to do, and I still had to crunch for a few days, 16 hours of work, the usual. That I’m not so happy about.

Good news is, the next team expansion is just a question of a few weeks to a few months, and we should be able to do more work in less time relatively soon, but in the meantime, I’ve been thinking about various ways to fix the update schedule.

The simplest way would be to keep things as they are. The updates are going to be released every three-ish weeks, and if something is not ready, I’ll be pushing the releases back a few days. But I’m definitely done with the crunch time, my health isn’t going to take much more of that.

Another possible solution I’m thinking about is switching to monthly updates. The new version of the game is going to be released, let’s say, every fifth day of the month. This will probably result in larger updates. Not dramatically larger, mind you, but a bit larger than the last one.

I could also do the monthly schedule with a second, minor update each month. But when I say minor, it’s really going to be super small. One or at most two side events, maybe a couple of hidden items with the CGs, some backend work.

And there’s another option. I can commit to two “full” updates each month, but then I’ll stop planning them out completely, and will just include whatever’s ready. As I said earlier, really small ones. No more full story arc updates. Well, maybe there will be, but later, when there are more of us and we are fully up to speed.

I’m going to include a multi-choice poll. There are three poll entries for each option. I ask you to answer truthfully, this is going to be a fully anonymous poll, and I won’t hold a grudge against any of you, or anything like that.

And just in case, this is not going to be a binding poll, and I'm not saying that I'm going to switch to monthly updates even if everyone is okay with that. I'm considering the options, and I want to have some input from all of you.

See you soon!