Pre-Release Feedback & The Road Ahead! (Patreon)

Hi Everybody, Strap in this is gonna be a long one, its purely informational and we won't show any new artwork nor discuss anything regarding version 0.2 in this update..."sorry!"Hope everybody had fun playing our first pre-release version of Cheating Witches. And if you did not try it yet, please go grab it right now on the front page of the patreon page, its free!Reading spoilers ahead if you did not play!Feedback- The game have been out precisely 10 days, and we have gathered a ton of feedback from you guys. Both the good stuff and the bad! And even thought we love to hear the good parts, we are perhaps even more interested in the the bad/constructive critique so we can improve and get even better.- We might be a little different from most other teams. Our goal is to deliver an amazing game that's fun, lewd, interesting, and, most importantly - something fans will want to keep coming back to with every new update we push out! - This means we're not afraid to revisit previously released versions if something feels missing, underdeveloped, or simply doesn't meet our own standards.- And that’s precisely what have already been planned for this current version, and was already talked about in earlier post, to do a polished version that meets these standards, and will be improved from all the feedback you guys delivered! Lets sum sum of the things that most people was least happy with- Relationship with Harry and Ginny / Ron and Hermione ~ "They don't feel like a couple", "Ginny and Harry don't even kiss, but kiss Snape", ect. ect. ect.This feedback is perhaps the most commented and also perhaps the most accurate, and we hear you, the focus is right now to change up some dialogues and events early to actually show the MC's are together with their supposed girlfriends!- Next... AI ... ... ... less AI, check we hear you! Main artist Yamkha is already working or the Entrance BG(its currently our only BG that is full AI) to the castle, and will go straight to other improvements right after he is done with that!- I know we had a lot of other comments with very specific preferences, and some might be hard to deliver on. But we still do listen to those also, and there was a lot.. a very lot! So I won't mention them here, but we still listen even thought we can't fix every little request.We consider every piece of feedback, so keep it coming, even personal preferences might inspire something that fits the game!Bugs- Yes a quick and clever patreon found a bug that actually hard locked the game, it was fixed as soon as it was reported and we pushed a new distribution out instantly! THANK YOU my dear sir, madam, whatever, KISS!Scenes, artwork and AIIn general around 90% of our game is hand-drawn artwork build from scratch over the last 2 years with our main artist Yamkha who can both create backgrounds, busts, scenes and even animate ~ well he can do basically anything!So please take in mind we use very little AI, and its mostly used as a helping tool for us. But yes, there are some AI elements in our game!- A few scenes are assisted with AI, some is complimentary and some are full AI!Example on a full AI scene is: Pansy scene(s), black haired girl with big boobies! This scene is perhaps the most obvious, and scenes like this we want to fully replace with tailored hand-drawn scenes similar to the Luna X Book scene! Even though some commented that the Luna scene is full AI, its actually far from it.... the scene is build from the ground up and animated by our main artist Yamkha, but there is a complimentary part just before the lewd start where the book grabs Luna, YES that part is AI, but in this specific case we won't remove it. Its complimentary and give an idea of why Luna is suddenly on the ground. Seen from our perspective it matches really well.- Comment below if you feel this is complete RIDICULOUS and OUTRAGEOUS that we might use AI to compliment scenes! Our goal is of course to have as little AI as possible, so the ratio 90% hand drawn with 10% complimentary AI artwork feels pretty spot on. Which also allow us to speed up some work and actually deliver updates faster.Next version(the polished version remember)- First off, I hate to give out dates on releases, not gonna lie... I see so many developers fail this ginormously and keep pushing some expected / promised update weeks and even months, as a player this feels really crappy, so don't expect me to follow this practice.- Instead I give estimates where I often set to long timelines, which means suddenly there is a new update because we finished earlier then expected(This often feels better from a player perspective, that a update have released out of the blue, I like it)- Cheating Witches 0.1 (Polished Version) is officially estimated at 2–4 months of development time. We're hoping to finish sooner, but we'd rather give ourselves the time needed to get everything right than rush it out the door.- Please bear in mind that our game features hand-drawn artwork throughout, and each individual background taking around 2–3 weeks to complete. Quality sadly takes time, but is also worth the wait.- The next release, the version-name will be changed from pre-release 0.1 version to just version 0.1 and will be a much more polished and complete version of the current build.Thanks everybody!Thanks to all the patreons and fans that have played and I do hope everybody enjoyed the first glimpse of our game. Next news update will be our monthly news update which comes end of month/early start of next month which share light on some of the work we have done the current month.Remember, we're only getting started, and things are just beginning to heat up!That's all for now!Zellemate out.