95% Done, Just a Little More to Go (Patreon)

Good evening,

So, here I am writing this report after all. I really didn’t want to write it before the release of 0.6.2.5, but considering how late it has gotten and the state the game is currently in, I don’t really have much of a choice. To give you a better idea of what is still left to do, I’ll briefly go over what I’ve managed to get done over the last few days.

I started the week “once again” by working on animations. As I mentioned last week, I still wasn’t completely finished with them, so I spent most of this week, up until Wednesday, working on more images. Just when I thought I was finally done, I remembered that some of Nyra’s scenes also contain images/animations of Tia, including the masturbation animations as well as the animations with Dasan and Tia. While the animation with Dasan can probably be left out for now (Tia will just not visit Dasan inside his tent while pregnant, something I will of course add later but for now this is a workaround), there was no way around the other one if Nyra’s scene is triggered infront of the village. So, naturally, I had to make that alternative animation.

After that, it was finally time to create the dialogue images showing Tia with her newborn child. These needed several different variations since, well... the father could potentially be pretty much anyone depending on the player's decisions.

Getting everything set up correctly in the dialogue was a little tricky, and I also had to go back and rework some existing events that I hadn’t formatted yet so that Tia is shown as pregnant in those scenes as well.

I then implemented all the new images/animations to the game. Which means that the right animation and image is shown in the explicit situation, Unfortunately, I made a few minor mistakes along the way and, much to my frustration, had to redo a couple of things because I wasn’t paying enough attention the first time and accidentally assigned the same image numbers twice.

I’ve also already started doing some test runs to make sure all the images are being loaded correctly and that there are no more flickering or image loading issues in the game. Those bugs are always particularly annoying to track down and eliminate. I’ve then started rewriting some of the dialogue so that it takes Tia’s pregnancy into account and actually addresses it, but I’m still far from finished with that part.

And yes, despite that, I was still hoping that if I worked through the night today, I might somehow manage to finish everything by midnight (or shortly after). But the later it gets, the more I notice my concentration dropping, and that simply makes it far too easy to introduce more bugs. As much as I would like to, I simply can’t finish the update tonight. I was tempted to release a version where you could at least see all the pregnancy animations without the giving birth part and where not all dialogues where adjusted... But that would take away from the whole experience... there is after all a reason why I didn't post any images in my past reports to prevent just that kind of spoiler.That said, I would estimate that around 95% of the update is now done, and the remaining dialogue shouldn't take longer than one or two working days. So I will definitely need Monday, and possibly Tuesday as well, but not longer than that. I also plan to work for a few more hours tomorrow to make sure that I can reach the deadline this time...

As you can probably imagine, all of this is starting to weigh on me quite heavily again, as it always does when I have to delay an update and then write an report like this one.

So once again, I’m asking you for a little more patience...And for now, I hope you all have a nice weekend!