Hi! I hope everyone has been enjoying the holidays.
This past week I've been focused exclusively on Casual Desires, but I think it will need a couple more weeks before it's ready. There's a few reasons for this, including but not limited to:
- Extra scenes were added, such as a new ending scene, a variation at Violet's house for players who chose not to ask her out, and a short stripping section at the porn interview. The chapter was otherwise feeling quite disjointed without these transitional scenes.
- I'd like to finish rendering the Luna date scene on my new computer, after it arrives (hopefully) on Jan 2nd. GPU limitations meant that I wasn't able to render background characters in this scene, and that the scene itself was quite short. My new machine with a RTX 4090 will significantly expand the scope of what I'm able to render.
- The dialogue in Casual Desires has been challenging for me to write, due to it being a slice-of-life. This isn't the case with RD since the dialogue - while more complex - comes very naturally as a result of its story focus.
- There's been an increase in negativity these past few days. While I don't take these sorts of comments personally, it does drain my energy and cause me to be less productive than I'd like.
I know that players were expecting to play the new chapter before the end of the year, and that was my hope as well. Apologies for any disappointment this news might have caused.
Casual Desires will be returning to a regular schedule in 2025, since it is launching on Steam.
Thank you so much for the patience and understanding. I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year.