Hazelnut Latte v0.15 Progress Report 12/16/25

Howdy everyone, and welcome to another Progress Report!

The options menu is nearly done, sorta. We are just getting the options themselves working so that they exist and are functional. Later, once all the UI art is done, we will go back and make the menus look better. But this bar is solely tracking their actual functionality. The last thing we are figuring out is how the Backer Code will work.

Animation only ticked up 2%, but there is a reason, so I'll explain the process of animating the lewd scenes. We calculate this % by maintaining a list of tasks; each task we check off increases the % value. But not all tasks are created equal. The first step in every animation is rigging the characters so they can move. This initial step takes some time and only adds up a percent or two. But once out of the way, the steps come a lot faster. We also have a placeholder list for all lewd scenes, but we won't know how many steps it will take until we start the rigging process. We added a few animations, which reduced our percentage from 27% to 24%. But that means more hot guys and gals being animated! All this to say, next week this number should jump a bit.

Most of the final lewd scene has been drawn, and the final shot is next on our list. The number of illustrations needed also increased by two. The reason is that the background for that scene is not finalized yet, so it is currently in a void. So these two extra steps are the backgrounds, which we'll do once we figure out what the place looks like.

UI art is still underway and looking really good! We have finalized the look of the Main Menu, Settings, History, and Save/Load screens. This is why the bar has decreased: we have added new items to the UI Art bar. This is what Pamika is focusing on, so backgrounds are still on the back burner. Additional UI art is likely needed, but we don't yet know what that will be.

Wrap Up

That is it for this week! The menu art is shaping up nicely and looks fucking stunning, even as sketches. We are coding and completing extensive setup that will support us for years to come. That's the rough part about the first build of a new engine, all the groundwork you need to set. But I still think that, all things considered, it's incredible progress.

Hopefully we'll have some stuff to show you soon ;)

Thank you all so much for your incredible support, and Stay Rad!