Monday Night Update (11/8/21) (Patreon)

I punted on the update last night because I was hoping to have good news for you tonight, i.e. a download link for Delicate Taboo 0.10.  Unfortunately, that won't be the case.

TLDR: Post-processing work on the images took far longer than I expected, but is finally complete.  I have to create a couple of images for the new main menu and then it will be ready for release.  So when will it come out?  Very Soon™!

That's the essentials of this update.  Continue reading if you're interested in more detail about the current delay and our future plans for shortening development cycles.

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Post-processing is something new that we introduced in the last release of Pater Familias to improve lighting, color balance, and the overall "Wow" factor of the images in the game.  We were really pleased with the results, so I planned to do the same in this update of DT.  I grossly underestimated the amount of time it would take to do the post-processing work on the images.  For whatever reason, the DT images required more individual attention than the PF images which means the whole process takes longer.  More images require individual tweaks in DT and we have 4x images in this update of DT compared to the last update of PF.

The other confounding factor was the image software I'm using to do the post work started hanging and crashing on me over the weekend.  I ended up sinking several hours into troubleshooting the software on Saturday afternoon and evening.  Fortunately, I was able to get it stable enough to finish the work.

I mention this because Rando and I have been discussing how to shorten our development cycles.  Some of the things we are doing to improve the quality of the games, such as custom animations or image post-processing, end up lengthening our development cycles.  So we have to look for other areas to cut down development time.  Most likely, it will be in the size of the updates, especially for DT.  Our updates for DT are big and we're usually exhausted by the end of it.  Our hope is smaller updates will be easier to manage and allow us to get DT out more than 2-3 times a year.

Thanks for your patience and patronage.  Rando and I are both really happy with how this update has turned out and we hope you will agree it was worth the wait!

KD