v0.17 Progress Update (12/2/23) (Patreon)

Seasons greetings to all you wonderful supporters!

I wanted to give a progress update for v0.17, along with an estimated release date for the update. That's right, I'm have a potential release date for v0.17 Early Access! I have a pretty good idea at this point of how much I have left and I've made you all wait long enough.

Before that though, I want to give a general state of the update's development. The first image is my ascii progress tracker that I update in the Bayshore Academy discord, and it details all the different pieces of dialogue and their level of completion. The second image is a screenshot of the github page, showing how many lines of code have changed or been added as a result of my work (which at this point is well over 5000 lines of code). 

As I've mentioned before, this update is rather complicated with all the possible permutations of how the two experiments can play out, so accounting for this when writing the dialogue is a challenge. That said, I've finished the dialogue for the afternoon scenes of Elena, Mia, and Sophia, and I'm currently working through Jessica's afternoon scenes. Sophia and Jessica pose a particular challenge because they have two sets of scenes, one for them at size 0 and their first dose, and one for them at size 1. The size 0 afternoons for Jessica and Sophia are completely new to account for a number of small story quirks, which while fun to write do take a little more time than the size 1 afternoons. I should have all the afternoon scenes done in a few days, which only leaves the growth scenes, short ending scenes, the second class scene, and small scene alterations to account for the second day's different event flow. This might seem like a lot, but in actuality the rest is a lot easier once the main afternoon scenes are done.

Now, the important part. My goal is to have the public release of v0.17 on December 24th, as a Christmas gift to everyone for waiting so patiently. For those of you good at math, one week prior puts the v0.17 Early Access release on December 17th at the earliest. With how large this update is, I need to make sure I have enough time to collect feedback and bug reports from all you lovely supporters so I can make fixes before the 12/24 public release. This gives me two weeks to finish everything up, which I'm pretty confident I can do, especially now that I've actually given myself a deadline to work towards.

However! These dates are not set in stone. A delay is always possible, especially if something comes up and real life decides to kick me in the shins. The holiday season is always unpredictable, but I will do my best to meet this deadline I've set. I will keep you all updated as I continue filling out the update.

I have a few more preview images for you that I will include in a separate Patreon post soon.

One final thing I want to mention is I am considering updating the Patreon tiers and pricing. I'll be making a much larger post with the details, but the summary of it is this : the $5 tier will remain unchanged, there will be a new $2 tier, and the $15 tier will be replaced with a $12.50 tier with additional benefits.

Thank you all for your continued support. I feel like a broken record sometimes with how long it's taking for me to finish this update, but I really do appreciate you sticking with the game and continuing to support it. I can only hope that when I do finally release the update, it is worth the wait I've put you all through.

 - K. Bro