So... The Cat Is Out of the Bag (Patreon)

Good evening,

It’s finally done. Update 0.6.3.0 is finished... at least for the most part. It’s a huge relief to finally have this thing finished today, even though I really wish I had managed to get it done a little earlier.

Let’s start with Monday. At that point I was still relatively optimistic that I could have everything finished by Tuesday evening at the latest. In my optimism, I even expanded the confrontation with Dasan a little further, adding some more animations and new sprites for several of the characters...

Then, at some point, I think it was Tuesday afternoon, it suddenly dawned on me... all those “what if?” questions started coming up.

What if Arianna only arrives in Rumah after losing the confrontation against Dasan? What if she was already there and had become the MC’s wanita? What if the MC had never been in a relationship with Katherin, but she is now pregnant by Dasan/Zorad? And even if she is pregnant with the MC’s child, he hasn’t actually claimed her as his wanita yet, which is now required...

There were quite a few more situations like that. I’ve only mentioned the ones that particularly stuck in my mind, and I’m willing to bet I still forgot one or two things that I should have accounted for.

The whole thing completely spiraled out of control. On top of that, I decided to add a small questline to make Nyra’s progression more understandable. This is currently only available on the Dasan route and only triggers during Katherin’s quest. I'll most likely add a similar quest to the Chieftain path at some point just to make Nyra's progression more understandable.

At some point my head was practically ready to explode, and I couldn’t think about anything other than getting this update finished this week. I also had two smaller animations for Tia prepared that I originally wanted to add, but in the end it was simply too much. I had to focus on the essentials to finally get the update completed. I’ll try to get those unfinished animations into the 0.6.3.0 version next week.

Of course, the walkthrough update is still missing as well, so there is still some work left before I can really consider 0.6.3.0 completely finished.But still, it’s an enormous relief to finally have the main update done and, most importantly, to not make you wait even longer yet again!

So, now with the update "mostly" done let’s take a little look into the future and what comes after 0.6.3.0:

First of all, it’s time for another bonus scene. This time it will be about Frisha & Kate.

Kate is jealous of Ophilia’s outfit and now wants a new one for the tavern as well. So she goes to Frisha... and yes, this will eventually lead to a scene involving both of them and the MC.

If I decide to actually use the new outfit in the tavern as well, that would of course mean creating a whole bunch of new images for the tavern. I’m still a little undecided whether I want to go that far or whether that would be better suited for Kate’s next main update... we’ll see.

And then finally! Julia’s update...

I’m really looking forward to this one. Some people have already assumed that this would be a relatively easy and smaller update, but I’m planning to finally implement the bulletin board in front of the tavern.

There will be smaller quests connected to it, and I’ll be asking for suggestions for those on Discord in the near future.

On top of that the idea behind this is to finally introduce actual threats to Arenfield. Things like bandit attacks on the town that you have to prepare for and defend against. - So for example: A task that tells you Bandit XYZ is near Arenfield in a hideout and you can accept that quest to kill him. if you don't do it, then he might attack Arenfield and that could then lead to one of the women being kidnapped.As part of this, I also want to rework the reputation system in Arenfield and remove the corruption system affecting the MC.

I should probably explain this a little further so there is no confusion:

Originally, my idea for the system representing the MC’s increasing corruption was to use it as a way of unlocking increasingly darker thoughts and choices for him. In the end, however, it simply became too much and I neglected the system more and more.To the point where it basically only serves to block options such as Kate’s anal scene or the content involving Natasha unless you have reached level 65. This essentially forces you to grind a whole mountain of potions to sell to Lucius... and then that’s it. The entire mechanic is basically reduced to that. So clearly, the system has drifted away from what I originally intended, and I would rather handle it in a way where your decisions themselves unlock certain options instead of forcing you to grind endlessly. In other words, I don’t want to throw away the basic idea completely, but I want to replace the MC’s corruption level with something more along the lines of: “You’ve already made a bad decision here, so you’re now willing to take things one step further.”

That’s still a very rough explanation, but I hope it will make sense once the system is actually implemented.

And I can already reassure you about one thing: this will not require a new save game. I’ll simply adapt the existing system so that decisions you have already made can act as indicators for future choices.And of course, there are the actual contents of Julia’s update as well: her marriage to the MC and moving into his house, Yasmine potentially becoming a maid if you didn’t rescue her in time, Julia’s pregnancy and the corresponding content...

So that’s it for the plans for the near future.

For today, I think that’s more than enough. I’m exhausted after this week and definitely need a little break.

With that said, I wish you all a nice and relaxing weekend!