Isha's Route Nearing Completion (Patreon)

Good afternoon,

It’s Friday afternoon again, and I hesitated for a moment about whether I should even write this report. Part of me wanted to just keep working until I had something finished to show and only write afterwards. Because as mentioned a few times before, I hate writing these "it takes longer" reports. But since finishing everything tonight, including the test runs, seems unlikely and tomorrow is much more realistic, I decided to post this quick progress update after all.

This bonus scene has grown far bigger than I originally planned. At this point it has reached 2216 new images in total, which translates to more than 45 animations that I was still working on until the middle of this week. The frustrating part is that even yesterday and today, while writing the dialogue, it still keeps crossing my mind that a small transition animation here or there would really improve things. I can’t even say for sure that I won’t still add some of them, although that would obviously delay things again, so I’m trying to resist the temptation.

Late Wednesday night I held a vote on Discord to decide which route I should finish first, Isha’s or Athia’s. The result was close, but in the end Isha’s route got the priority. Just like last Saturday, I’ll also be working tomorrow (Saturday) to try and finish the update at least for Isha’s route. A small portion of Athia’s route is already done as well, but quite a bit is still missing there (all the new scenes that include the animations), which I will then add in the second part of the update. I figured the shorter the wait for you all, the better. Which is why I'm now splitting it up.

In terms of scope, this has basically turned into a small story progression update for Athia, bringing her progress roughly in line with Isha’s so that both characters will be at a similar point once Isha’s story continues.

Story-wise, Isha’s route for this update is already completely implemented. It is the much shorter route for Athia in terms of progression, since she will get "stuck" on that one. Of course I will make all animations available for that route as well, as I mentioned before (with exception of 1 that is specificly for Athia's route). What’s still missing now is the bathroom scene and the one in Athia’s room, the scene inside the MC's room is already done. So now no more animations, just dialogue and events, so it should be doable within a day.For now, I wish you all a nice weekend and you will hear from me tomorrow.