Development News 79
LC (Ongoing)
Lasting Connections v0.2.6 | Progress: 25%
WT (Ongoing)
Willing Temptations v0.4.3 Anniversary
Willing Temptations v0.4.5 | Progress: 100% > Released
Beta Branch
Lasting Connections v0.2.x-Beta_R1A | Release: June 8, 2026
Willing Temptations v0.4.x-Beta_R1A | Release: ???
About a week ago, I've announced that I'll be doing Beta updates again, so I'll stick true to my words with the first Beta Branch for my project coming in about a week. If you're interested only in the full experience of what each update offer, you can ignore the Beta updates and wait for the real update to come in.
Beta updates are just for those who wants to follow the game development closer, it doesn't cost extra. R-series is for "Regular" updates and M-series is for "Major" updates. Check this post for more details.
Lasting Connections
v0.2.5 is now available to all Supporters, so go check it out if you haven't yet. It's a small update to kick off the start of navigations in Chapter 2.
As for the development on the next update. It's actually doing pretty great. I'm wrapping up the interactions for the Cafe with Cily and Siola, and will be moving on to another location you can visit in the morning, the Boutique. There's gonna be a little lewd scene there as well.
Since the last update, I'm changing the way I use Sprites. Like, here is an example of before:
Velvet Sprite popping up in a middle of a scene to engage in a conversation. I will not be doing that anymore. Not long after that Sprite scene, it transition back to a real scene.
I like doing real scenes more than Sprites, they have more details, and the lighting is just better cause of the environmental light from the scene itself. They do cost a LOT more in render times though. While Sprites usually cost 2-8 minutes, real scenes goes up from 30 minutes all the way to 4+ hours. So, we're talking about 30x cost here in render times cause I render everything at 4K.
This is shown in v0.2.5 when you interact with Vilvie, what could've been a Sprite, I instead rendered them in the scene itself. Not only that it looks great, but it also allows for environmental awareness when posing the character while not going too deep in something like an event scene.
Combine that with the new ways of me doing things which I cannot say, it'll less likely that I will be reusing the same pictures over and over again. I still do, you'll notice that when you talk to Feily, but I only do that when the scene fits.
I will still be using sprites when it can benefit the game. Like when you're on calls with someone as an example, it's better than looking at nothing.
Here's a preview of Siola in the next update.
She won't be romanceable until the next major update.
Anyway, v0.2.6 will focus on all the morning interactions. v0.2.x-Beta_R1A content will wrap up this interaction in the cafe and hopefully, comes with a finished interaction for the Boutique.
Willing Temptations
New update has dropped a few days ago. v0.4.5 coming at you with new lewd scenes for Lexi. It's a Soft NTR leading to the first major ending route for the game. Go check it out, link above. It will be available to all Supporters on June 5th, and it will go public on June 20th.
Now I'm already working on the next update, and it is my most complicated one because "Ten", that waiter guy you meet in Classic Date, is up next on the list.
But here's the thing, his route is Hardcore NTR, and you know me, I like me some old school NTR, so we're talking about real loss here. And a lot of you are not into that, which is understandable, like why would you, right? ;3
Fortunately, Classic Date offers a lot of flavors you can choose from. You don't necessarily have to go down a route where there's nothing at the end of the tunnel. But it will depend on the choices you've made prior to this point. Let me show you what I'm talking about.
Minor Spoilers from here on out!
You will be leaving Lexi with Ten, and there's no option to tag along with them here like with Ondo. I know that's a bit of a spoiler, but there's a good reason for that.
The hardcore NTR route will not involve any other person.
But other routes?
You have options for MC to move forward with someone else himself.
If you had look for opportunity for Lexi to mess around before going to the restaurant, you will find Roy comin' up to Lexi, and his continuance will be available. This will make it possible for you to interact with Roy and his boss, Nash, at the resort. (I know it's weird that Nash calls him "boss" even though she's the boss.)
In the context of Ten's route. You won't be able to go for their regular route (Coming in the update after the next one) because Lexi is not there with you, but you can still hang out with them. Might lead to a lewd scene, i don't know :3
Now, in that same time frame where Roy and Lexi talks outside of the restaurant, you might remember someone else approaches you, and engaging with her causes Lexi to be mad and the whole NTR Path is blocked. This will be changed soon.
DiMA's route is gonna hit Lexi pretty bad, especially after the thing that happened in certain route when they first met. DiMA is a lewd person, but she's not what Lexi thought she is. There's no regular route on her, but in Ten's route, there will be.
And that guy who is with DiMA will have nothing to do in this route. Who is he? Not relevant in Willing Temptations. But he does shows up in LC, and will be prominent on that side of the pond.
Roy & Nash + Dima & ???, they will not be worked on just yet.
Instead, I will work on a different route you can take should you want to move away from Ten's main route.
Our MC talks about it sometimes, how nobody wants him and whatnot, and degrading himself with question why would anyone ever considers someone like him. Getting Lexi was quite lucky of him, but if you've played through every route the game has offers, you can kinda notice how certain people look at him, and it's not like what he's thinking at all.
Sonia, you saw her in Classic Date. She doesn't appear in the Resort, but she's closeby because of mutual acquaintance, Lesta, is around, and you see her in the main hall.
This route will be something I'm gonna work on alongside the main Ten's route.
His route is not as big as Ondo as there won't be any choices you can make once you pick a route, but all these alternate routes that the MC can take, is pretty cool if you're not into the type of NTR I'm gonna go for with Ten.
And that's gonna wrap it up for the 79th Development News. I hope you all are doing well in these trying times. Have a great day, everyone.
