August News update (Public)

Hey there and welcome to the news update for the month of August.

With the Private Eyes double release done, let's talk about the upcoming Diplomacy update. This one will feature the evening and night sections of day 6. Planned content, right now, includes:

• Date event with Alycia (might lead to a significant scene)

• New House of Joy content (includes a new fighting pit scene and more content for Joy's sub-plot)

• New Outer Town content (includes a new scene with the pick pockets and, if time allows it, a new Mercy task)

• A new scene with Asiya (will vary, depending on which approach you took with her)

• An Aleta ero scene

• And more...

As for the release date: Right now, I can only give a broader timeframe, which would be between the 15th and 25th of September. I will give a more concrete date later.

In other news: After the latest release of Private Eyes, I went to a friend with a testing rig, to hopefully get to the root of my recent PC issues. Long story short, it turned out, that the CPU was the culprit and pretty much on its last legs. The good news is, that getting a replacement for a 8+ year old CPU was a lot cheaper than having to get a new GPU or getting a new motherboard, which would've probably meant getting a new CPU anyway. So, the issues I had, while working on the last update, are gone now.

With that being said, a new PC is something to seriously consider for me. The workflow on the current rig isn't exactly great, to say the least. It's not only rendering times, simply setting up scenes can be quite a slog. That's why doing real animations, something that gets requested a lot, is simply not in the cards right now. I'm not good at this whole marketing thing, but here's my pitch anyway: If you like my project(s), maybe consider subbing, even at just the 2-3 buck level. If enough people sub, I would be able to upgrade my hardware and potentially even do this full time, meaning faster updates, or, alternatively, updates at the same pace, but with more content. Plus, I could up the quality of the content, including f.e. animations. All for the price of a coffee a month. Well, that's my pitch. Like I said, not much of a marketer, but I'd really appreciate your support.

Anyway, that's it for now. Till next time.