Corporate Development Memo 4/20/25
Hi everyone!
Another weekly update, and I really appreciated a few people sending me birthday wishes! I did have a great two days off island and honestly vegged a bit Wednesday when I got back! So I really got a nice little mental break but I still did a lot for the game too!
As I said last week, I was kind of doing a lot of testing and trying to organize everything at what I think is sort of the halfway point of the next update. So I did in fact completely play the sub path (I even added some music to about 4-5 scenes which is not my usual thing but I kind of felt like it) and almost done with the dom path (doing a bit more tonight and tomorrow).
1) The game update/progress: I managed to still do about 81 renders this week for the game so the new total is 1,144 renders. I also did about 18 renders for the sub poll so far (13 for first area, 5 for second area) so I almost managed 100 renders overall even with everything else I was doing! (Sometimes, I am even faster/more productive after a nice break so I think this is the case here)
An overview of where the game is right now:
Main Path (all people see these scenes): 120 renders
Dom Path --> 598 renders
Sub Path --> 426 renders
Total --> 1,144 renders
Roughly 4,200 lines of code, 19 animations so far (for reference the huge 8.2 update was roughly 5,000 renders and 20,800 lines of code or so)
I am still doing a bit of outlining for the second half and will continue on that this week. The images above are roughly 2 dom scene shots, the rest the sub path and the "dungeon" stuff from the start of the sub poll, location one.
Working on the rest of the sub poll will impact a small amount the render count for this week (there are only so many hours in each day) but I'm still pretty happy with this past week and overall progress. I feel like I've not had a really bad week yet in terms of productivity.
I will be mostly on the sub side for the next 2-3 weeks as I have kind of (as planned originally) done a bit more on the dom side first. It will all balance out by the time the update comes out.
2) Sub Poll: (The three separate scenes are 1) the pickup room 2) hunting outside and 3) Olivia pegging Kane in a private theatre. I should be getting that done this week. I've got about 13+5 done so far. I kind of enjoyed dressing Amy up in something different! My very first test shot of her and I think she looks so cute!
3) Dom Poll: This should end by this Friday and I'm pretty interested in what wins because it's very close right now!
4) I'll be working on both the sub poll and sub path this week so it's a focused week on that side!
5) My Spanish translator fell through for Steam (just MIA on Discord not sure why) so if anyone knows any Spanish speakers that might be interested...looking. But I might have some leads :) (other languages are progressing)
I finally have hashed out our entire wedding plans with our families so feeling VERY relieved about this all too I am so so so not a Bridezilla hard core wedding type person (I just want him there anything else is just not as important) and we've had to push back hard to make it more intimate/less elaborate, etc. But we've got super unique planned for our honeymoon :) The few people that know me super well at high tiers know I'm way more a girl that loves unique places like Namibia, Egypt, Bhutan, Australia versus "traditional" places most travelers love. We're both way more free spirits/adventurer types...and we've both had a dream destination our entire lives and will visit it for the first time together for our honeymoon.
This will impact the game as it is very likely I pause billing in December 2025 or January 2026 to just have this full time off, etc. An update and likely Steam version will be out before this date.
Anyway, I hope everyone that celebrated Easter had a nice time with family and friends! It's not as big of a holiday here as it is in most of the United States, but I still did a nice Easter Brunch and had some fun with younger relatives and their egg hunting and other fun!
Just working more and grinding, talk more soon, thank you!
Love,
Tess