Development News 59 - Lunch Date (Willing Temptations v0.4.x)

LC (Ongoing)

Lasting Connections v0.2.2.1

Lasting Connections v0.2.3 | Progress: 35% > Release Date: TBD

WT (Ongoing)

Willing Temptations v0.3.8

Willing Temptations v0.4.1 | Progress: 85% > Release Date: January 11, 2026

My attention at the moment is solely on WT. The last piece of renders needed are currently being rendered, and possibly be done by tomorrow.

But I do feel like I haven't accomplished much for the amount of renders that were there. Even though, it was many. Totaling about 170+ renders in total, and the majority of those are for the Classic Date with MC and Lexi messing around most of the time.

I have this idea about drawing a parallel with how the "date" goes when you choose Classic vs how the date goes when you choose Crazy Date.

Unfortunately! 4 weeks are not enough to make that true.

With 5 days left remaining before release, I can only work on the script and playtest to make it all work, so I will be putting those beautiful idea for the next version of the game.

But okay, things are getting confusing now. Classic Date, Crazy Date. What's going on?

Let me make it simple.

Everything boils down to this date, right? Take Classic Date as the original date, as an example. MC goes with his wife to visit some places on a valentine day, here we have some lunch, maybe later they watch movies, have some dinner, and maybe just go home afterwards or perhaps going in a hotel? And that will end the date.

That is the whole thing.

Now, take that date but you instead chose to go on Crazy Date. Polio got introduced and you will be given a choice, coming with your wife's date with Polio or go home.

If you go home, Polio and Lexi will have the same date that you would be experiencing in Classic Date, but you skipped all that, and got the aftermath. Well, it's a different aftermath if you decided to come with.

And if you had come with- you, Polio, and Lexi would go and have that exact same date as in the Classic Date with all three of you together.

Well, I've pretty much laid out all the v0.4.x plan for you right there. And I would consider the game's premise of valentine to be finished when everything is done, pretty much completing the game before v0.5.x. Obviously, I have more plans with Lexi and our MC, but right now, I'm advertising the game to be replayable short-burst project, so I want to deliver on that.

I have all the assets required to do what I need for the game right now thanks to your support, and I will be saving up your funding for the 4th phase of WT when we get there.

For v0.4.1, you only get up to lunch with Lexi, and it's for Classic Date only. There's gonna be new content with Polio as well, dialogue choices during the cafe scene and what comes after you decided to come with them, will all be unlocked. And all of that, are 60 more renders than the current v0.3.8 and less than 80 or so renders than the big v0.3.5 update we had before.

So, I would say, it's a small-to-medium sized update. But it's just a gateway to get into v0.4.x series of updates where more lewd content will be added then.

Can't wait for you to see it. I'm also going to be adding that dialogue box opacity slider, a few of you have mentioned before, in the update as well.

Until then, thank you for tuning into the 59th development news. I hope you all are doing fine despite the holiday being over. Thank you for coming by. Have a great day, everyone.

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