Corporate Development Memo 2/17/2025

Hi everyone!

As I said last week, I changed my update to more of this time (very late Sunday night for me/Monday for most people) slot to allow myself to have a carefree Saturday/part of Sunday with my fiance. (both of us taking this time off consistently now since we are both so busy)

A. First, I am attaching something called a Faction Summary Sheet. A few notes about it:

1) It is SPOILERY to an extent, so please don't read it if you want to be blind in playing the game. I may tweak this more as Episode 9 approaches as this is WAY more relevant to Ep 9 than where I am in the game right now.

2) It does NOT go into romances/endings too specifically -- it only is a general overview of my current thinking of rough World States/factions. World States are basically how the game may end up on a macro level -- the general state of the world itself and what happens. Factions are the "teams" involved in trying to achieve certain goals. Kane can be involved with none, one, or more than one faction. One thing I will add is that you are NOT locked out of adult content not being in the same faction as a female, BUT if you want a ROMANCE path with that female -- you probably want to be aligned with her faction. (this makes sense if you think about it)

3) Note the word "current" I just said above -- while I am way more set and locked on romances/endings I am a bit less sure on factions (the mechanics of them) because I haven't truly sat down and made it picture perfect. So this is my thinking right now, but it could tweak/change a bit so think of this as a rough framework but not locked down.

4) Please forgive how disorganized it is -- I am TERRIBLE at this kind of writing. It's very technical/non-creative versus what I am much better at so I'm open to format ideas/suggestions to make it better.

B. Walkthrough for 8.2

I started this a bit, but now can focus on it a lot more since I have finished the Faction Sheet and had time to mull that over quite a bit. (just thinking about it was a good process for me to be honest -- I took some time to really ponder the possibilities)

So I'll be working on this without the Faction Sheet on my mind at all now. This is also a very long update, so bear with me as I will need a little time to do it right. (5000 renders this update, the biggest ever. I will try and organize it similar to prior ones but we'll see if any new ideas come to my mind in how I do it.

C. Episode 8, Part 3 Update

I've attached a few more preview shots for Part 3. After two weeks of work, I'm now at:

217 renders - added 113 renders this week

I'm pretty happy with the first two weeks as typically I am a bit slow to start a new update as I get my "writing muscles" back after finishing an update. But so far, so good!

D. Poll

I wanted to think a bit more on how to do this, but I think I have an idea what to ask now. It will be about fantasy renders set. My own perspective on this is that I enjoy doing them because it allows "freedom" from set character narratives/arc in the game (non-canon and just pure fantasy so we can see new things) but I also understand anything I do on this kind of thing slows down game development time as well. So I probably want another temperature check from all of you about how to manage this in the best possible way. I don't always follow votes exactly, but I absolutely take this seriously and it will likely be dispositive w/ my decision if it's overwhelming with votes, etc.

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Last, I really want to thank people for the feedback/comments. It's been the best update in that sense. I've had the most/best feedback from this update more than any other I've done, so I really appreciate the messages! While I have never denied I first and foremost do the game for myself (the enjoyment of the creative process and how it makes me better in life overall) I absolutely hope/want players to enjoy the game! So thank you!

Next update in a week but maybe a poll mid week...talk more soon!

Love,

Tess