Development Update - 7th of February

Hey everybody,

If you've already played, we hope you enjoyed the new side path update; if not, we hope you enjoy it when you do!

It felt great to finally release it, add the new languages we've been working on for a while, and get something out on Steam.

Now, onto Realm 4!

As we mentioned previously, we've had to work around our art director's absence since early December. One of our team members, who has been working on other parts of the 3D process in Blender for some time, has stepped in to handle the lighting/camera work/scene finalisation over the last few weeks, and we're really happy with his work on this. He finished off the side paths for us last month and is now working on Realm 4.

We have another team member working with them, and they are currently coordinating their lighting styles, with the idea that they can both oversee this task going forward.

It's been a while since we spoke about Realm 4, so I'll give a brief summary of what to expect and where we are with it.

Over the past year, we weren't sitting idly with Realm 4. Every scene in Realm 4's main story has the characters' bodies posed. Many of them also have posed facial expressions, but some scenes still need work.

Over half of the animations have been animated. There are currently around 50 NSFW animations planned, and 40 SFW ones. With our art director not here, we will need to decide how best to finalise these animations, including the lighting and camera angles, which we will work out over the coming months.

So at the moment, we've made a lot of progress on Realm 4, but there's still a lot of work to do before it's in its final state.

The release schedule for Realm 4 will also be different from that of previous Realms. In the past, we've done small, regular updates. For Realm 4, we plan to do larger updates (each around three or four times the size of our previous updates). There will likely be a bigger gap between releases, but hopefully each release will feel substantial and really worth playing. Realm 4's main story will consist of four updates.

At the moment, we are trying to effectively schedule and set targets to ensure we stay on track to release Realm 4 as soon as possible. We also need to figure out how to allocate time back to ACTC, as we've really shifted our focus back to TSR. Originally, the teams were separate, but due to the difficulties we faced when transitioning to Blender, they are now all merged.

We want to make 2026 the best year yet, so we're going to work our arses off to get out as much as we can while ensuring quality remains high.

We'll keep you updated on our progress over the coming weeks. As a team, we're really excited to be fully focused on Realm 4 and not split between different tasks.

Thank you all very much for your continued support. Without it, what we're doing wouldn't be possible, and I know I say it often, but it really does mean a lot to us!

Have a great weekend :)