The Final Stretch Begins (Patreon)

Good afternoon,

Another hot and busy week is behind me. I managed to cross several important tasks off my to do list, even though there's still a bit left before this milestone is complete.

The first part of the week was focused entirely on creating new animations for the MC's hut, including transition animations and single images. As always, recording the animations was only half the work. Editing and polishing everything afterwards ended up taking much longer than expected, and it quickly became clear that finishing every planned animation by Tuesday wasn't going to be realistic.

By Wednesday evening I had reached a point where I felt it was better to switch to a different task for a while. I've spent weeks almost exclusively creating and editing images, with only short breaks for bug fixing, so a change of pace was definitely welcome.

Instead, I focused on implementing everything that had already been finished. This included adding Tia's new pregnancy sprites both in Rumah and with the Orc tribe. With the amount of new artwork that's now been created, updating all the event logic so every scene loads the correct images also turned into quite a project of its own.

It's not the most exciting part of development, but it's one of those essential jobs that makes everything come together. The good news is that most of this work is now finished.

Earlier today I also updated Tia's character profile to better reflect how much she changes throughout the story instead of keeping the same description from the moment you first meet her. Like some of the other characters, her profile now also tracks her pregnancy status and the number of children she has. After that I started implementing the event where Tia tells the MC that she's pregnant and will return to Rumah, which finally connects everything and properly begins this new progression.

As you probably guessed by now, I won't be able to finish the update today. There are still a handful of images left to create, along with the dialogue and events surrounding the birth of the children.

The intense heat we've had over the last few days also made it difficult to put in the long evening work sessions that I normally rely on when trying to push toward a deadline.

Even so, I'm happy with the overall progress this week. A lot of important groundwork is now complete, and I'd estimate that roughly 80% of Update 0.6.2.5 is finished. Over the coming week I'll mainly focus on writing the remaining dialogue and events while gradually completing the last missing animations. With most of the heavy asset work now behind me, the finish line finally feels much closer.

I'm still avoiding giving an exact release date because I'd rather not promise something I can't guarantee, but I don't think there's too much left now. To keep you better updated on these last steps before the update I plan to write short progress updates on Discord in the coming week when I get the feeling that the release is coming closer.

Thank you all for your patience and support!I wish you all a nice weekend!