Dev Update #31 (Patreon)

The long hard slog to the next release is in motion. It's during these times where I ask, "What am I even doing?" So many hours of work remain, and still not quite anything to show off yet. I do have a fancy spreadsheet that now has my scene counts and lewd scene counts for each chapter and lady. I can safely say now that I know exactly how many scenes a player will encounter, if they are doing a single path. It's good to have this manageable and behind me. Each new chapter will be balanced, events will happen in their proper order, and we have some fun threesomes in future installments of To Be A King. I'm so tempted to put up a spoilers page to show off some of the interesting things, but I'll behave.

My mind has been a bit fatigued from work lately, so I've been taking some extra time to try and clear it. I don't want to have to backtrack and redo a lot of writing because I wrote something when I wasn't even close to my best. Hence the spreadsheet, which, believe it or not, is pretty light work once I get the structure done.

One thing new with this dev update is a "director's commentary" audio available here. I wanted to expand a bit on my surprise at some of the poll results. If you're interested, you can grab that at the link. Let's move on to poll results.

We had three polls close since my last dev update. One patron-exclusive poll is because we reached over $1,000/month pledged. With that goal met, I promised two 4K renders to patrons, and a livestream for patrons to watch me set those up and chat with me a bit during that. The winners in that poll were Eliana and Aelinia as Triss and Ciri for some Witcher 3 cosplay (Render #1), and Kaylan and Cassia as sports stars (Render #2). That livestream will be Saturday, October 9 at 1PM US Eastern time. Looking forward to seeing as many patrons there as can make it. The link to the stream will be posted here on Patreon and on my website in the next week or so, and you'll get a reminder the day of. It is going to be a patron exclusive stream.

In the two other polls, everyone could vote for their favorite new character from Chapter 6 and favorite lady in To Be A King overall. The favorite lady was overwhelmingly Princess Aelinia. It wasn't even close. Kaylan stood out as a solid #2, and Princess Cassia was #3, though that was much closer. You can check out that poll result here with everyone. Poor Princess Valentina.

For the favorite new character poll, you all surprised me by overwhelmingly voting for Isabella. Hopefully she doesn't get too close to any lions during her time in the palace. Dinah and Diana finished second and third, with everyone else closely bunched, but much farther behind. More new love interests will be revealed with Chapter 7, and my thanks to everyone who voted! 

The progress graphic should be back very soon. Even though I've made a lot of progress for TBaK's story, it doesn't apply directly to Chapter 7, hence nothing to update for that specific graphic. Much progress is being made, but it is making the game better overall and ensuring I have less to think through or correct when I develop future releases.

One other quick note. After I posted about a public release, several people messaged me to let me know that Patreon was cracking down on those since it was adult content posted publicly. Since that time I've seen several devs announce they are pulling public releases due to this. I am going to continue to do some research here, but it's possible I have to nix the public version for this next release. Stay tuned. Thank you for your interest and support!

WAIT! One more thing. I'll be having a very informal live chat/Q&A tomorrow at 2PM US Eastern time. Come and say hi, ask some questions, or just listen to me chat with others. Nothing much new to show off, except some new Daz assets.