An early patch

First and foremost, big news: the next patch arrives on the 24th of this month. Yes, it's coming way sooner than usual — because I want to get it into your hands so you can... talk :P

The trade-off is that it will be a bit smaller. Think of it as the equivalent of a 4-week patch instead of the usual content from our normal 6-7 weeks of development. Expect around 18k words, plus new reveals and stuff. But that — is Viv's job to reveal soon ;)

The QnA

I'm going to start picking up questions you asked in the QnAs and answering the ones that call for a deeper response, so I can turn them into devlog material. Let's start with one that people ask me both inside and outside the QnA: NSFW.

NSFW in TC

This is a really important topic for me. Of the games I've had the pleasure of playing, I always felt they did too little in this regard. Not in terms of the sexual part itself, no. That, I'm sure they do an excellent job at. I'm talking about the humanization of it. Sex doesn't have to be just sex.

How sex evolves in couples

Sex is supposed to get better throughout a couple's life. If things are going well, a couple's sexual pleasure is supposed to improve over time, not fade away — which is what most people assume happens. It's not the first time you have sex that's the best — it's supposed to be the most recent times with them.

You learn what your partner likes, they learn what you like. And sometimes, you both start liking the same things. The couple adapts — it's not static. And I think that is a great opportunity for TC.

In TC

I don't want sex to be just that. Sex, static, and nothing but an end goal. Yes, I want it to take effort to get there (with most of the characters), but I want it to be a point of evolution as a romance, as a story contributor. Not something static. The characters keep being themselves. With their own preferences, inside and outside the sexual zone. That means there may be things you'll want to do with certain characters that they don't enjoy, or that are still new to them. Something you both might improve over time. As well as deeper things I don't want to touch on just yet. With time and discovery on your part, the way sex can contribute to story and character arcs will become clearer.

Technicalities

We want sex to be first person perspective, like the majority of our game. This is a challenge, but a fun one. I actually tested some of it, and using different programs I was able to create some pretty... erotic images in first person view with some of the characters (I'll keep those for myself for now :P).

So yeah, the challenge is to keep making different poses, etc. And to study — yes, study — a bit of how we react. How our body reacts, to be more precise, to pleasure and stimulation. Details that, in the end, I'm sure will add a lot to a scene ;)

On Season 1

For now... Our plan is to have sexual content with at least one of the Season 1 characters. And I don't want to reveal more about who it might be. Just that when it happens, some of the things mentioned above will make more sense.

On another note — music

Until now, I've been asking artists, studios, etc. for permission to use their music. But that led to an unexpected discovery and problem... Streaming and YouTube... Yeah... While a good part of the artists allow it without any issues... others don't. Even some whose music I'm paying for won't let me take out a new license that would allow you to stream TC if you wanted to. That means TC would be locked out of having people play and showcase its content. We can't have that.

A lot of the current music will be replaced (unfortunately, that includes one of the groups whose tracks I use the most — and pay monthly to use). I'll do my best to make sure that, above all, the feeling of the music I find — or commission — stays the same, so the scenes' overall tone doesn't change.

That's it

That's it for today, folks. Do keep in mind that even though all of this is planned, like anything we're developing, things can change. A lot of it, I'm excited to share with you later.

See you soon, Zak

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