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Afternoon!

Party planning continues as I try to make it entertaining and feelgood with this chapter putting Book 2 to a close. A segment also includes the decision you'll be making on who'll be by your side throughout Books 3 and 4.

That said, someone came to the Discord with a question that I wanted to address here too. Since I really don't hang around anywhere else. I'm either developing or BS with friends, being everywhere is difficult. So it's always appreciated when someone brings their questions directly to me to answer.

I'll start with the easy one. They asked if Artemis is romanceable. She is. Every girl in the DataLeak (other than the "others" tab) is a love interest. We saw a glimpse of how much Artemis' intelligence evolved with her time with the INK girls. This includes interest in human romance. And her romance route plays out differently if you choose her in the coming chapter. I'll share what I can without spoilers, but unlike the other girls where the relationship starts in CH8 after making your choice. For Artemis, not so much. Choosing her will start the path but won't be fully committed until a couple chapters into Book 3. And of course, it's optional.

Their second question was about the drop of quality in animations, specifically the lewd. Most of you know that I've been learning Blender, which has a completely different render engine which is why it looks different. A significant portion of my time is crafting the story and posing/working custom assets. Trying to get everything done nicely, I usually push animations toward the end during Beta. Which means I'm learning the software and animating during the 2-3 weeks we're beta testing.

Chapter 2 for example. June's scene post-dinner was great. At the time, paths were still developing and I had more time to focus on one thing. One animation alone took me a week to animate and 2 weeks to render (fix mouth clipping, fix lighting, etc.) but there wasn't pressure of multiple paths branched and the story was still developing, so less focus on that.

This is why there's only 1-2 poses now whereas June's had like 3 or 4 I believe on her scene alone. With updates taking as long as they do already, I have to try to manage my time better so we're not going into year long releases. Pushing the lewd animations to Beta was the best path to take or I'd be adding a few more months just for animations. The more proficient I become with Blender, the quicker I can animate better scenes. But to point out again, I'm still learning Blender's animation tools and animating and trying to do that in 2-3 weeks is rough. I also plan on shifting to Blender fully by the time I start working on my second AVN when Artemis completes.

So, that said. For this chapter, you're choosing between 10 Lis to be your partner. I decided that only a few of the lewd scenes will be animated this chapter. Prioritizing those who have never had one yet. And others will have a lewd scenes still. But instead of animations, we'll have still renders of the acts. Obviously I'm still wanting to do animations, but this is going to help me spread the work better instead of trying to squeeze lewd animations across 10 LIs in this update.

I'm curious what your thoughts are on this approach for Chapter 8.

Anywho, somethin' made momma bear angry...

Have yourselves a great week!

♥ digi