Dev Update! 8/5/24
Hey, friends! Hope your week's off to a great start!
The big news this week is that I recently put out a new demo build for $15+ supporters. This one contains upwards of 300 images, and has a short (but spicy!) ero scene with Mason. I also posted a new short story, which I haven't done in quite some time. This one stars Madison, and it's available to all $2+ supporters, just like all the Wanton Weekends posts.
I'd backed off of writing these supplementary short stories for a while, because I came to feel like that information would really benefit from being in the game itself. But then, someone wisely pointed out, "Uh, hey -- why not just put those in a Word/PDF file, and zip them into the game folder?"
.. stupid, stupid Neon!
So, in the future we'll see a bit more of those short stories, which take place on the periphery of the universe. I still don't want to include anything super vital to the main narrative. But, these are definitely a time-effective way of building on the world, adding context to certain story points, and giving you fine folks some substantial story content. And if I have time to eventually render some of these stories out in full and add them into the game as mini-chapters? Even better! But for now, this'll do.
And if you folks enjoy my prose writing, I may even do an original story at some point, disconnected from Guy and the gang. Would you be interested in that, assuming it didn't impact game development speed?
Speaking of game development speed: last week I asked if I should consider delaying the release of Chapter 10 to September, assuming doing so would let me add more content than I'd be able to squeeze out in August. The overwhelming consensus was that I should take my time and focus on quality/content over an arbitrary release date. I'm honestly still weighing what I want to do, but everyone's perspective and input is definitely appreciated. At this point, I think the two options are:
do a part one/part two release, with the bulk of the chapter dropping this month, and then next month release part two, which would basically just be Gabby's scenes.
wait and release it all in September.
I'm presently working on Viola's scenes, which means I'm a little behind where I'd have liked to be, but not by much. I need to take a day and fully iron out some script/code things, but for now I'm trying to render all the script I currently have written, and then shift my focus back to the script.
All in all? Things are going well, and progress is being made. As always, there are hiccups and unexpected delays, but I'm doing my best to mitigate them. Once I get through these next two scenes, I'll have a better idea of how I want to proceed with the release. I'd anticipated this chapter being around 600 renders, and I think it's likely to land closer to 850+ depending on how much variation/choice I add to Mason's main spicy scene.
I'll leave you with that for today, but as always -- take care of yourselves, and thank you for your support!