Spook’s Progress Posting #45 – Things to Do in Philadelphia When You’re Broke. (Patreon)

Hey there wild one-and-alls! We’re back! Well, strictly speaking we didn’t go anywhere, but now we’re back on track for another go ‘round to making a new version of deliciousness to put Noemi and her hot pals through, which is awesome! We’re back at the start line, nice and fresh, so this week was mostly a week of getting all the ducks in a row, but there’s still plenty to look at and talk all about, so let’s give it ago!

This week was week #0, or Pre-Production week, were stuff like new props, clothing, locations and special effects are sources and readied to make into scenes, or in the case where they can’t be, the texts are reworked instead. I’m happy to say I managed to find all I’ll need in some sense or another, so things are greenlight to go ahead. Even better, there was time left to get a jump start on the gameplays once again, so we’re a little more than half a dozen CGs down to start us off and we’re only just coming to the first proper art week ahead. Hooray!

So let’s look at the bars, for the first time in a while.

They’re mostly filled with potential, but once again it’s great to see things ready to roll ahead once again.

From here it’s hard to say for sure when we’ll get to the end of cycle, some things are still up in the air AFK which will at some point cause a little disruption, but for the most part we’ll likely hit a similar pace to things we’ve seen before. For now, I’d estimate a release window of Early August, with the expectations that will narrow and many even move closer to us as progress turns from on paper to reality.

[From This Point On, Beware of Potential SPOILERS]

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Until we’ve gone ‘round another couple of weeks and got those bars stretching nicely, we’ll just have to enjoy the steps of progress we’ve already banked along the way. Speaking of banking, Noe’s got to put all the cash she can away so the loan officers get off her back, which means she’s got to find ways to spend her days without reaching for her purse. Oh no!

Yes, for this version we’re taking a pivot on the gameplay side and instead of stuffing more sexy into the restaurant, we’ll be crossing all over Noe’s neighbourhood with new things to experience on her days’ off. Every option she has will be getting a new chain added, bringing them all up to 5 links, with options like Poker and Car Washing adding extra earnings as you get deeper. So, since we’re talking things to do in Philly when you’re broke, here’s a sample of just a few (since it’s been a while since we had a nice preview post I’m hitting you with 3 this week!):

There’s things you can do to earn a few bucks for your classy cocktails that night… which you’ll need to forget what you did to earn the money! Using your ass as a sponge for your annoying beau’s BF will do that to you!

Of course if you’ve got a special friend with far East talents, you can get that same ass massaged to make it all better. If you’re a particularly special friend, you might even get some stacked peaches from the experience!

Then again, you might have to pay forward the favour and let your other friends practice their craft on you and your beautiful skin. Gulp! At least raising Kriem’s passion for her own talent will help teach her a respect for your own, so she’ll work harder in the kitchen when it matters. Right? A girl can hope!

That’s just 3 things to do when you’re out of cash in the city of brotherly love. There’ll be 14 more to find across all 9 activities and 3 modes, plus we might even see a few more as I’m eying up a redo for 1 of them which could add an addition 4 to experience, only time will tell!

The Week Ahead

And that time is next week! The plans for the week ahead are to finish out the gameplays and start cracking into the first of the new Beck scenes. We’ll talk more about the overall content in a couple of weeks once the Public Teaser is reached, but for the week ahead there’s 10-14 gameplays left to make art for and some final texts to shape up which will be the goal for the start of the week. I would hope to have all that done by the end of Wednesday, with Friday aside for some text and code work to get them all ready to play. Any other progress will come on Thursday, so I dare say an overall goal of 20-22 for the week is a fair one to take on for this kick-off week. We’ll start aiming for more from there.

So that was the week that was #45! There’s plenty to do around Philly even when your short on dough, and we didn’t even get to the best of them, rolling in the... Echem… You know. But we’ll get there soon enough! Until then, enjoy all the ways to spend your days in Noe’s shoes…

Be busy even on your days off and beWilder!