Jennifer and Alice discuss lingerie at the bar (0.5.2 preview) and some general information (Patreon)

Hello my friends,

first of all, let me thank you for still being here and supporting the game.

I know it has been a very quiet time from my side all those months. Priorities in my personal life, my main work, motivation, an injury to my right arm (that shouldn't be permanent, but could still take months to heal) and other things have led to it.

What I can promise you is that I will finish the next update and release it within a reasonable timeframe which will not be several months again.

What will happen after that, I will just be frank and tell it like it is - I don't know yet. Finishing the game at the current pace would take years. Just quickly finishing it with a couple of hundred renders is not what I want to do and it wouldn't really work either. There is still so much to discover and unfinished stories to be told.I know that a lot of you won't be happy about this post and if you want to withdraw your support, I fully understand. You will still be able to download and play the game like you did before. The download of the game was always free and will continue to be free in the future.

There are a several possible options:

concentrate only on the main story line from now on and finish it without adding anything else any more - this would mean a lot of Sara, Daniela content and not much else

just leave it an unsolved mystery with an open ending and finish one girl after the other

stop game development entirely after the next update (this would mean an end for the paid patreon tiers)

just do occasional smaller updates with whatever content I feel like doing (this would also mean an end for the paid patreon tiers)

In an ideal world, I would do a combination of the first and second option and give the game the ending it deserves. But from the experience of the last 12 months, I know this won't be possible. Since just abandoning the game entirely would break my heart after working on it for more than 7 years, this is my least prefered option.

The long time the game has been in development is also one of the major problems. Technology has changed dramatically over those years and several of the renders are just not acceptable any more by today's standards. Also complexity, number of girls, scenes, render count and text is so high that even I can't really remember what everyone did or said in other scenes. Also most ideas have been used already.This makes developing and writing new and interesting things a lot harder now than it was in the early days of the game.

If you want to comment, give suggestions, vent or whatever, feel free to do so. I've always tried to do the best I could given the circumstances. I should have made this post a lot sooner and I apologize for not doing so.

Now about the preview. The above renders are from an event with Alice and Jennifer that starts the retro lingerie quest for Alice.

As always, take care everyone and enjoy the previewDarkhound