State of the Union

Hi all,

This will be longer than even my normally chatty dev logs. I’m going to address some questions that have been thrown my way recently. I’m going to make this post public so that everyone knows what’s going on. I’ll eventually lock it to the top of the page so that everyone who visits sees it.

Puggy and I are still working on the game. I thought I was being transparent about this, but it’s obvious not everyone reads the dev logs. So here’s what’s up.

When I started making this game, even before Puggy was on full-time, I used actual band posters in the bar, in Noah’s house, in Lane’s house and in the tattoo parlor. There may be more that I’m just not remembering right now. But those are the main environments. In order for us to take the next steps of getting the game on Steam, we have to re-render all of the scenes with posters in them. There is no leeway here. Steam will see those posters and deny us instantly with no second attempt. We also have to re-render the tutorial at the beginning of the game as Steam doesn’t fuck around with school girl outfits apparently.

This isn’t us redoing anything we don’t need to do. Even though I feel like we’ve gotten better at what we do, I feel like the original chapter was still pretty damn good. I didn’t want to be the cliche of being known for going back and redoing our first chapter just to bump the cosmetics some. Once we’ve got the rework out you’ll see that even though we are redoing the scenes with the posters, we will not be redoing any scenes that do not have posters. In the scene with Simone, you’ll notice I only redid the images that show the posters. I left all the other renders in. I’m doing my best to match the original lighting so that we don’t have to redo anything that doesn’t stand out dramatically. Again,none of the scenes that do not have posters in them will be getting a re-render, for now. I may eventually go back to fix those in a post-release patch but I’m not going to halt forward progress more than necessary right now.

The silver lining to this is because the majority of the rework of this is on me, Puggy will have the time to go back and redo some of the original animations to bring them up to our current standards and with some missing much requested features added in to form a more cohesive finality to each scene. Depending on how quickly those go, we may be looking into other places to add more animations that aren’t just lewd scenes, like the dream sequence in the second chapter. Puggy stays pretty busy with all the other games he works on, so that’ll be a time permitting sort of thing.

So, we’re in a weird spot where we are working on the game but to you all things are seemingly slowing to a crawl. So, I want to be clear: We don’t make a living from Patreon. I think most people understand that this is for ultra fans who want to support the creators, since someone will eventually leak whatever we do anyways.

If you are uncomfortable with the time it’s taking, then please halt your subscription and stay on as a free member. We will make a public announcement as we always do before our release. We’d hate to lose you but we’ll welcome you back with open arms.

For everyone who sticks with us, I’m going to start getting back full blast on the special tiered renders. I need a creative outlet to help me with the burn out I’m starting to have from the rework. The burn out has metastasized into disinterest with talking about progress, as I’d literally just be telling you that I opened this many scenes, copied this many characters from one environment to the updated environment and placed them in the queue. It’s on me to get myself out of that rut. Doing some fun renders and getting back into the basics of why I originally liked doing this stuff seems like a great way to show that I’m still alive and still here, even if I’m not doing as many biweekly updates. Once we get closer to release and there are more interesting things to talk about I’ll get back into the cadence of the bi-weekly updates. Until then, I’ll try and do one near the end of each month to let you know where we are at. By the end of this month (April 2025), I’ll work out the exact number of renders we need to do, how many I’ve got to do and how many are done already. Whenever I get the chance to swap over to the new chapter I’ll share a render with a note. But I really just need to go whole hog on doing the update and put that shit in my rearview mirror before I go insane.

For the folks on the Custom Tiers, if you want your monthly render, I’ll need you to be proactive about contacting me when you want them. I appreciate you all sticking with us up there, but I kind of got tired of hunting folks down every month to get your requests from you. We’ll need to start from scratch as it’s been I don’t even know how long it's been since I’ve even heard from you guys, but I’m just gonna assume things are cool if you aren’t yelling at me.

If there is anything I haven’t addressed here, please comment below so that your question is public as others may be wondering the same thing you are. I’m happy to address any concerns, but note that I’m making this post to hopefully save myself from answering the same questions over and over in separate DMs.

TLDR: We thank all of you all for supporting us. It lets us know we are appreciated. But we appreciate you all as well and don’t want you to support us while we are working our way through boring shit we’ve got to do, if you feel in some way this is us taking advantage of you. We will make a public announcement when the release is nearing and will hopefully be getting quicker with releases after that. If that sounds better, we’ll be here with open arms if you want to come back. For those that stay, we promise to get back to the tiered premiums moving forward.

Thank you all!

Wilson