Next Milestones For Tia's Update (Patreon)

Good afternoon,

Another busy week is coming to an end, and although I had planned to take things a little easier than last week, that only worked to a certain extent.

The 0.6.2.3 update kept me quite busy over the past few days. For Bolgan's claim route, I had to quickly create several new animations and implement a daily schedule for Tia in case she is staying with the orc tribe. Fortunately, I had already finished her movement sprites some time ago. While working on this, I also discovered several issues in the existing events, which made it feel like I had to go through and rework almost every event around Calan's rest.

Work on the other two routes, Dasan and Chieftain, went much more smoothly. Even there, however, I ran into a few problems in the event code that needed to be corrected.

Over the last few days I have also been busy fixing reported issues. With 0.6.2.2, I implemented a new plugin to handle companion movement, something I previously had to achieve through various workarounds. It now works much more cleanly and will give me far more flexibility for future cutscenes. Unfortunately, the plugin caused significant lag on larger maps, such as the forest outside Rumah (Which some of you ofc noticed and informed me about), whenever you clicked on an inaccessible area with the mouse. I modified the plugin code, and that performance issue has now been resolved.

I also finally managed to fix the remaining issues caused by merging the sex scenes in the hut in Rumah with today's hotfix (finally!).

Now that the biggest problems are finally out of the way, I can focus on creating new content again. I had originally hoped to start working on Tia's pregnancy animations much earlier this week, but thanks to all the fixes I only managed to begin today. So far, I have created the first dialogue portraits showing Tia while pregnant. There will be several variations of these, so I still have quite a few more to make.

The next step will then be creating pregnant versions of existing animations. I probably won't remake every single one of Tia's scenes in Rumah, as that would simply be too much work, but there will be updated animations for several of them, including scenes inside the hut, by the fire, with Dasan, and with Bolgan. For 0.6.2.5, my goal is to complete everything necessary for Tia's pregnancy, including showing her pregnant and eventually giving birth so the child can be raised in Rumah. Then for 0.6.3.0 there are some other goals aside from the resolution of the conflict with Dasan, I also want to rework and improve some older animations, including the scenes where Hiba surprises the player in the hut in the morning.Another task on my list is adjusting Tia's affection gain events and reworking some of the dialogue. The idea is to cap both Affection and Corruption at 20, making that the new maximum value. Dialogue and character reactions will then take this new limit into account. My goal is to make choices involving Bolgan and Dasan or other women feel more meaningful and have a stronger impact. Whether everything works out the way I currently envision remains to be seen, but that's the plan for now. Hopefully that will allow me to bring Tia's character progression to a satisfying conclusion.

That's all for now.I wish you all a nice weekend!