Preview: So... my life is a bit hectic right now. (Patreon)

Asbestos removal and renovations

I've recently had the unpleasant discovery that the walls where I live are full of asbestos and basically it needs to be removed. Hopefully it hasn't caused me any harm, but it has to go, nonetheless.

I have had to be organising a whole bunch of stuff like asbestos removal, carpenters to redo the walls, electricians, painters, etc. It's a lot of work, and I'll have to do some moving as well, which is going to take time. I have to be staying somewhere else for a while because of this, so I've lined it up with a holiday overseas for a couple of weeks.

Anyway, what all this means is I've got much less time than I usually do. I think the biggest casualty here will be writing; any particularly long or complex scenes (from a writing perspective) might have to wait for a few months while I sort out this chaos in my life, but don't worry - I'll still make releases. I'm also still making progress on scenes for the future.

What's upcoming?

In light of all of that, I'm putting together plans at the moment and I expect the next couple of releases at least will be kind of snippets of things - phone messages, etc. I have a phone message/Shizu's video combo that I've previewed above that will probably be in next month's release.

Fortunately I've done a lot of big interactive scenes lately, so I don't feel too bad about this and there's room in the game for more of this smaller stuff. Also fortunately, since I've got such a powerful GPU (bought before the death of affordable computing) that I can actually render in higher quality than I used to, so it's way easier to produce high quality images and animations. That combined with my improved skills and refinements to the character models means that a lot of the new stuff will look good. And that kind of thing is pretty easy to work on now.

Discord trouble

One more thing, to address the Discord situation that a lot of people are talking about - I don't yet have any plans related to that. If Discord actually does kind of collapse as a user-base when the ID requirements come in then I'll see where everyone else is going and try to set up something suitable, but I'll have to figure that out when it happens.

Having already been through the ID stuff myself (my country went early) it only affects me now if everyone else decides to leave. But I'll notify you here and on social media if and when we do move to a new place. I'm kind of hoping this all blows over to save me the trouble, though.

What do you think about all this? If you've read this far, I could use some feedback on whether this sounds like the right approach.