Corporate Development Memo (2/24/2025)
For me, it's not quite midnight, but I'm putting 2/24 for everyone else!
Just reminding everyone that I'm still switched on to this late Sunday/Monday update each week as it really helps me have a free weekend day/night with my fiance and friends/family, etc.
1) I am now working on the walkthrough for 8.2. I may have a "slave" help me format and clean up the end product (this is REALLY helpful to me because I really am terrible at this kind of writing/formatting) and I expect to be working a lot on this for the next week. So I may have a slightly less productive amount of renders done this week, but we'll see.
2) After a LOT of thought, I'd like to try and do a switch of sub/dom polls with about sets of roughly 25-30 renders at most. It really is something I love doing, and I did waffle on this back and forth a lot, but I'd like to try and do it and see how it goes, etc. If people are really objecting and/or it seems to be impacting the game update speed, I'll reconsider it of course. Generally, if I do a good set, it delays me on other stuff maybe 3ish days. (While it's only 30ish renders, the biggest time sink is setting up the room for the first time and I usually try to do a really good job with it, etc. It's generally much faster to do a long scene at 90 renders versus three scenes at 30 renders each if you think about having to set up every single room/asset/person for the first time with some exceptions for really complicated scenes and/or lots of people and action.)
So I think I will do a sub poll first since I am working on the dom side in game a bit more at first right now to balance it out. The poll can only have 25 choices and yes...I realize I have more than 25 females in game. So I will try and just pick the 25 most relevant/important characters for a fantasy scenario with say 2-3 females (top voters) being chosen to have fun with Kane. After that poll, of course I will take scene suggestions/ideas that you can send directly and I will try and think of some as well...it's meant to be fun and non-canon so it's a chance to see certain characters in a different light if you want! More on this soon.
3) I did another 113 renders this week and the overall total is now 330 renders. I've done a few animations but not many yet. A pretty solid start for 3 weeks as I typically start off a bit slower for new updates. I am aiming for a much shorter update than 5000 renders this time around, so something may be coming sooner than people expect, but no promises yet, haha!
I will be hard on the walkthrough this week and also outlining some stuff on a Steam Version. My biggest challenge with this right is translations -- I would really like some good languages for this version. The other ideas (gallery/in game walkthrough) are easier to me. I also am not sure yet how this works, but I'd like some way for Patrons to get this game version too. But I don't know the rules/possibilities for all that quite yet. I just opened a Steam account two weeks ago and am literally learning the site from scratch.
I hope everyone has a great week, and I'm just plugging along :)
Love,
Tess