Development Update - 1st of August
Hey everyone,
With our announcement of A College of Thirst & Claws a few days ago, today we'll give you an overview of what to expect over the next few months.
Realm 4 Main Story
We polled supporters in July to ask whether they wanted two separate Realm 4 updates (one in August and one in September), or just one larger update (planned for release in September). The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of one bigger update. So we won't have a Realm 4 release this month, but should have a bigger one around the middle of September.
TSR Side Paths
We wrote this in our last supporter post, so there will be some repetition here for those of you who read that one. We're making changes around how we release the Character Side Paths. Our intention with them is to help flesh out some of the characters, allowing you to spend more time with them when they don't always appear in the main story, and to expand the lore of our universe through them.
As we saw with how long it took us to develop the ones in Realm 3, we now plan to release Realm 4 (complete on Steam, etc) with no further side paths added. We're aiming to have this out before the end of the year.
We're planning the Realm 4 to Realm 5 transition to work similarly to Realm 2 to Realm 3, with a save export/import, and Realms 6 and 7 as DLCs for Realm 5. So when all is complete, The Seven Realms will effectively have three "volumes". All that to say, our plans for the side paths are to launch them during the development of Realms 5 & 6, before finalising the game and ensuring all paths work towards the main story finale in Realm 7.
Moving the side paths out of Realm 4 will allow us to complete it and launch it on Steam faster. It will also give us more flexibility to add them in Realms 5 & 6, as we won't have to consider any extra save exporting, etc. We also hope this will allow us the time to find a better way to implement them, rather than just a character selection menu. We did this out of necessity in Realm 3, but we'd like to find a more exciting way to implement them in future, if we can.
And to avoid any uncertainty, our moving of the side paths will not reduce the number we have in the game overall. They will just appear slightly later, but all planned side paths will still be developed.
A College of Thirst & Claws
If you missed the announcement, ACTC will launch at the end of this month. We will confirm a specific date as soon as we're confident we can launch then. This will launch on both Steam and Patreon. We're yet to determine exactly how ACTC releases will work with our Patreon tiers.
We'll share some more info around this in the coming weeks. Right now, we're still finalising things for the launch, but we're so excited to share this new game with you.
If you haven't already, please consider wishlisting on Steam and sharing the page around. (I'll probably be ending most posts with this over the next few weeks lol). It will help out a lot, and we really appreciate your support!
Our dev post came out a little later today, but it's still Saturday, so we hope you all enjoy your week! :)
Comments (11)
Ok i wishlisted College on Steam. However, I've been wondering about something for a while now. Why do the saves only go up to page 120?
Thank you! When coding the UI, our programmer set the limit here. As there are six saves per page, not including the quicksaves page, this is 720 save slots, which we felt would be more than enough 😅
Yes, wishlisted ACTC a while ago, and I am glad you guys are not asking us to sub another (2nd) of your Patreon to get ACTC, but will be included with the SR tiers. Because I was thinking of Inceton: How they have two different Patreon to sub, one for their flagship games and one for their NTR stuff. Jonathan told me and I was kinda surprised. Looking forward to updates on both games.
💯👍 - Good point Wei, havent really thought about that - hmmm i see me playing a second College AVN after BaD… Thanks brother, you dont post often, but you always have to say something meaningful ! In a world where everybody talks to much and thinks his opinion is a gift to the world this is rare. Very well appreciated ! 🫡💯👍
GOOD SATURDAY AFTERNOON 🌥, JAY & TAE, OUR SEPT TEAM, AND EVERYONE!!!! YES!!!! ACTC 😛🙌🏻!!!! Can't wait for it! New Journey ✌🏻😜!!! Alright… one release 😋. Can't wait for those TSR SPs, and WHO'S ON THEM 🥰💕! Or will it be the same characters again 🤔? I wishlisted and followed it! GL with it on Steam, Sept Team 🫡! As always, thanks for the Update, Jay!!! Keep on keeping on, Our Sept Team 😉!!! ALWAYS EXCITED AND EAGERLY WAITING FOR YOUR GAME AND READING YOUR POSTS 🙌🏻🔥!!! Love and appreciate everything! All of you ❤️, your ladies 😍, your posts 🥰, your previews/renders/monthlies 😘, and your game ❤️! Always make my days better 🌈! Thank you, Jay & Tay, Sept Team, and you Realmers (still thinking of a fan name), for being in my life and being a part of my routine 😉! Stay safe, stay blessed, and stay in PERFECT health, beautiful people! And don't forget to stay hydrated! And you're never alone ❤️🫶🏻🫰🏻!!! OUR AVNS AND OUR DEVS CONNECTS US ALL 🤗!!! Have an amazing and beautiful week! I'll catch you all—ON THE NEXT ONE ✌🏻😁!!!
Thanks, mate! Continuations for some of the characters, and there will be new ones as well, such as the harem members from Realm 3 & 4, and at least one other character who isn't a romantic interest :)
Thanks for the update. I had ACTC wishlisted on steam as soon it was available. Really looking forward to both ACTC and realm 4. have a great coming week and rest of the weekend.
Ok i wishlisted College on Steam because till now you delivered all at 100%, so i support you there... As for the Sidepaths, i give a damn when we get them, only that we get them, they are gorgeous, good work, thanks guys ! 🫡💯👍
When is Realm 4 coming to Steam?
I mentioned in the post that we're aiming to have this out before the end of the year :) We don't have a specific release window yet, but December at the latest, hopefully sooner!
🤩 excited