Hello hello!

I guess this will be the first official post-release studio update, huh? Wowee.

First of all, thank you all so much for believing and supporting this fun, but difficult endeavour of mine! I was caught by complete surprise by the absurd amount of things that needed solving this week for the game release, but I think I managed pretty well in not releasing a broken game (okay, there was the day1 patch, but let's ignore that), and setting things up for a smooth sailing (hopefully not jinxing myself here).

So... what's next for Dylan, Hanta, and the gang?

For starters, turns out Hanta can get an interesting reaction to a specific type of milk - but Dylan doesn't know that. While trying to make a nice gesture to cheer up Hanta, Dylan ended getting himself caught on Hanta's newfound hunger under the sheets in the middle of the night.

That's the setup for the next story event, but, I'm afraid to say this, but things don't simply start escalating from there, as your relationship is pretty much on its infancy yet. But I have other ways of introducing spice, don't you worry.

This scene is halfway done, with 90% of the dialogue complete, but the visuals lagging behind as expected.

So that means the next release is coming... soon?

Hmmm... kinda? The next release I want to at least contain 4 more story events, and allow you to unlock the next tier of your relationship, giving you more interactions and stuff to do, so this will take a lot of testing to balance things out (you might have noticed that outfits are way too expensive for your meager salary - I agree. This and other things will be balanced as the game evolves, so I'm not expecting to make it perfect now and delay the next release, but at the very least, I don't want any GOD.DAMN.BUGS.

Also, on the next release, you'll be able to start gifting Hanta new outfits... that's because I'm setting off the Weather system (in beta), which means that, if it's cold, and Hanta doesn't have warm clothing, you (and him) are gonna have a bad time.

And speaking of releases, I'll break the ultimate patreon creator rule, and provide non-paying members with releases WHEN IT'S FOR BUG SQUISHING! Content releases will respect your tier, of course, but I just don't believe it's fair to punish anyone with my mistakes.

So yeah...

That's pretty much it for now. I do plan on having animations both for H scenes, as well as Hanta at home (his idle poses in bed, the couch, licking his paw, etc), but my PC is only equipped with the bare minimum for animations, but I'm looking into a couple of solutions!

I'm also doing a facelift on my site - garlickycreations.com, but I'm not prioritizing it. Also, ignore the Trance Encounters panel. I was just messing around with ideas and the site and forgot to take that out.

I have a side project I'm working on, telling the story of a side character of this game, but I'm torn between Claire and Blanche, just writing ideas, getting frustrated, etc. It will be a very short story, - maybe 1 hour long(?) - featuring the chosen character in a spicy slice of their life. Ayj might be in it because he likes to tag along and he's fun and challenging to write.

He's at work right now, but he said hi.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns, feel free to DM me here, or on Discord, Pigeon post, smoke signals, whatever works.

I'll make another post on Wednesday with some more details on post schedule, devlog, and anything else going on. Let's call it Wednesday Newsday.

Cheers!

Garlic