Progress Report #86 - And yet another year has passed (Patreon)

Hey lads!

Sorry for lack of info and no Christmas content, but I'm sick and have high fever since Thursday (probably covid, since I lost my smell). I never plan or prepare my posts & releases beforehand, so when I'm sick (like right now), I usually suddenly vanish, but those who follow me for some time probably noticed it already. Since I'm writing this post I'm feeling better already, but headache is killing me, so I'm still not able to work on the project, sorry. Right now I'm mostly sleeping and praying that my waifu stays healthy in her last days of pregnancy, since she most likely infected me, but yet she has no symptoms. Basically, all my friends, family, literally everyone I'm talking to, has someone sick around them, so it's another disease wave. Such a bad timing...

I know I failed big time and it's too late already, since project's anniversary was on December 10th, and I didn't make it in time for Christmas either, but, well, Merry Christmas, everyone! It's been probably my first time when I've spent whole Christmas in bed sleeping, but I hope that you could get some fun and rest during this time! Also, I didn't prepare any original meme for this day, so I'll go with a lazy approach an re-use the one from the previous year :v Anyway, looking at the past 12 months, it was really busy, but weird & hellish year. First half of the year started with war and me catching covid for the first time, and there were a lot of other issues here and there along the whole year. I know there's no point in describing all major changes of UotW, but I released versions from v0.23 to v0.27 during this time and added meaningful stuff like Kevin's Diner remake, Event Sheet, Character's Art remake (ye, there were quite a few of them in the past years), buff system, Slums, skin coloring, lockpicking, being homeless, Unity engine update, map, fast travel, unique items, luck, cooking, Metro and much more. Then the last half year we've spent on UiTC and some of you could already see what we achieved - *coughs* CP2077 on it's release *coughs*. But jokes aside and despite all problems and bugs, I'm happy with what we managed to achieve. I repeated for ages that we can't improve art, because it's impossible, it will break everything, and I was half-right. Of course, majority of animations broke, some were quick fixes, but many had to be re-made from scratch. Though the biggest price we had to pay was huge increase on game size and RAM & VRAM usage, so now it can really rival with AAA titles in terms of requirements, lol. Majority of modern PCs should be fine, but Android got hit badly and older devices with lower amounts of RAM are a total no. Naturally, I will still try to optimize it over time. If I could start from scratch, game would run smoothly even on old devices, but there's no way I'm ever gonna do that, I would rather make totally new game if anything, thus you have to deal with ridiculously unoptimized game, sorry.

Regarding game, I plan to fix all gamebreaking bugs and I will focus on them over adding new content, but my priority right now are animations. And I know I promised public release still this month, but I believe it's not ready yet and I want to fix it more, so please wait a bit longer.

Also, thanks a lot for not voting evenly on all options in the poll and making my life easier :P Winner, with the majority of votes, is NTR (you guys are evil :P), thus the roadmap for the upcoming will be like that - Once the most annoying bugs are fixed, I focus on NTR and meanwhile, with my artists, we will slowly work on pregnancy until NTR is finished, then we fully focus on Pregnancy and once it's done, we will add lesbian content. But as you know, I'm not a person who can easily stay focused on one thing, thus I will add some events & features along the way, so fear not, you will see more than that in the upcoming months. Implementing all these features shouldn't take me more than 6 months. It all depends on how many problems I will encounter, how bad my health will be, and how big and advanced the mentioned features will be. And here's some info of what you can (more or less) expect:

NTR - Mainly Ben content, but also Boyfriend mechanics, where you can choose one partner (Ben, Rick, Kevin or Albert, for now) to be your boyfriend and it will alter some of the dialogues etc. Also, will try to add some BF & NTR scenes for these characters in the upcoming months.

Lesbian - Support for female to female action (aka lesbians), 3rd flatmate (Rachel) and content for her, but also some stuff for existing unique girls and lesbian events in overall.

Pregnancy - This feature adds dangers of getting pregnant, so Jane will have to use contraception. like condoms or pills. Getting pregnant will cause some debuffs and alter dialogues. After some time passes, belly will be visible (one stage only) and then after even more time, there will be "birth" event, but you won't see actual thing, only dialogues, and then daycare will take the child.

Stay healthy!