Progress Report #90 - Still fighting with memory (Patreon)

Hey lads!

It's been quite a while again, sorry about that, but didn't have anything interesting to report as I was fighting with memory issues (and still am). Ok, so here's good & bad news.

Good news is that I will be able to fix the memory, because the stuff I tested seem to work fine. So game will eat less RAM & VRAM, but also weigh less (most likely under 2 GB). This is especially important for Android, because right now you need 8 GB of RAM to play without problems, and there aren't many smartphones with such an amount. Older GPUs with only 2 GB of VRAM also would stutter a lot. So yeah, I'm gonna do my best to fix that once and for all.

Bad news is that after 5 years of game development my code is such a huge pile of spaghetti shit that I keep failing over and over on incorporating new memory system onto existing project, so I have to do how textures are loaded, clothes & body parts are changed etc. from scratch. It causes 2 main problems. First, all existing saves will probably have face & bought clothes reset to default, because most likely I'll have to change how their data is stored, so letting you know beforehand. Second, it will take me around 1-2 weeks probably, because it's re-making one of the core aspects of the game, while working with the new feature that I still don't fully understand, so it definitely won't go smoothly. I've set a hard deadline for the Valentine's Day, because, not gonna lie, after so many hours of trying to fix memory issues, trying different stuff and failing miserably, I'm quite fed up and tired, so I already want to move on to adding actual game content before I go insane, but I'm also stubborn as hell, especially when I found a way of how to resolve it after so much time wasted, so finally I know it's possible and that I can do it. Sorry about all delays and problems, I'll try to put some extra time & effort into it. All in all, I hope it will be worth the wait and game will work smoother and better once I'm done, especially on Android.

My artists are already working on the future content, like the X-Ray art update, since we are using still the old one from UotW, so I'll also have to make new animations for it (will appear in v31), or balcony in the Jane's kitchen to have some outdoor fun, but watch out to not wake up neighbours or flatmates (idea heavily inspired by NTRaholic, coming in v32) or hospital where you can seek good gynecologist's "help", but also pregnancy feature (coming around v33 or v34). I will give you sneakpeaks and more info once I'm actively working on it, since right now I'm fully focused on fixing the game and not touching any new features personally. All upcoming in the near future bug fixes will be the part of v30, then new NTR content will start appearing with v31.

Out of curiosity, I tried AI and wanted it to help me out a bit with the project and... Oh boy, it's a disaster xD Whether it's about generating art, programming or writing, it's still years away from being useful for anything, so I'm gonna stick to working with actual humans beings. Although I can agree that it will impact future of us all quite a big time, and I doubt it will be for the better...

P.S. Attaching a rough draft of an upcoming pregnancy feature. It's still in an early development and a subject to change.

Cheers!