Public Update 5/25/2026

Hello everyone!

It's actually after midnight for me so it's technically a Monday post for me!

Before I talk about the game, I want to say a special thank you for each and every person that deserves the honor and respect of Memorial Day! So many brave military personnel have died while serving in our Armed Forces. It's pretty known in some detail for those that know me more personally at the higher tiers that I have a lot of connections to very specific federal agencies and the military and it's very important to me to honor veterans and those that paid the ultimate price in their duties! So just thank you from the bottom of my heart! I also have family that have served in World War II, the Vietnam War, and Desert Storm and a few other things not known as well.

Where I live, there are some amazing events and private ceremonies as well for tomorrow (omg it's today now lol), and I'll be with some specific family as we do those things. So I honestly won't work much on the game tomorrow but be back at things Tuesday.

Again, I will always personally celebrate, honor, and especially remember these brave men and women that have paid the ultimate price in defending the freedom of people like me. THANK YOU.

So here is a road map after I have done about 17 to 18 weeks. I have tried to maintain a 100 render average per week but I have not typically worried as much about the pure number of renders versus the story just flowing well and making sense to me for players in different branches. One thing I am already dreading in a way but excited in another is the ending paths for various branches. I know it will be a difficult lift but I am determined to do my best.

Overall Stats: 2,037 renders, 108 animations (I predict I will use about 90 of these or so)

Main renders (all players generally see): 253 renders

Sub Path: 777 renders

Dom Path: 1,007 renders

I made a few tweaks during this week of review and work. One, I am adding a few more sub scenes to my outline after discovering a slight inbalance but I kind of figured this was the case after I did a scene admittedly too long on the dom path. But I was enjoying the scene too much personally and just went a bit overboard. I never worry about balance this early as I always kind of adjust as I go to make it work out by the end.

I also made a difficult choice to take out one sub scene of about 40 renders (why my overall render count went down a tad bit from the last update on the private Patreon post) This is never an easy call for me but I've done it a few other times. I now have about 9 scenes like this and maybe someday I'll splice them all together somehow for players but it won't be until after the game is close to done or finished entirely.

I still have to correct about 50 renders but just listing it for now and I might get to it later as I feel like writing this week after not doing much on that last week. I don't enjoy this process as much as creative work so I feel like I did a lot last week even though it's probably about the same amount of effort!

I'm posting a lot of pics this post since I won't do another public one for a while -- I have tried to make sure they are safe for a public post but someone please tell me if I screwed up and I'll fix it. I know some are repeats but for public posts I don't know who has seen what so I just try and post a nice chunk since I don't post this way all the time. A future public post will avoid using images before this 2000 render mark. It's always tricky to find non-adult pictures especially with Kane on the sub side as he's rarely in clothes!

Some relevant flags already:

Junko romance (romance with her on Dom path)

Good Olivia (dom and sub both)

Fake revolution and K9 (you want both if possible)

Revolutionunlock

I will have more branching later but so far I already have these in there. My least favorite thing about my last update was I felt I sacrificed two scenes with "Good Olivia" to finish the update by a reasonable time/date with my wedding happening, etc. I especially hated sacrificing an alternate "judge" scene I had in mind with Good Olivia and Jake. So I worked on a bit of Good Olivia content early this time.

Also keep in mind for the very first time in this update (Patrons know this but will say in public in case I forgot) there will be what I consider final flags for endings. What I mean by that is that up to now, I have big choice flags that influence later things, but I have never yet put down a flag that is an endgame state flag that will matter all the way until the end. This happes in this update for the first time so if I give a warning it's a big choice...it is. These flags are not pass/fail/on/off flags but rather points starting at zero so it will build over multiple episodes and matter A LOT to outcomes for specific characters no matter the path/branch.

I'll also be taking 2-3 short trips with my father again over I think the next two months or so but this won't likely impact the game. If it does, I will say so and react accordingly.

I feel like this past week was great for organizing and I'm tweaking my outline this week a bit more and will get back to some writing/renders. I'll probably do this again at 3,000 renders but already doing as much as I did this past week REALLY helped me for next time.

Please have a wonderful week!

Love,

Tess