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Corporate Development Memo March 17, 2025
Hello everyone!
I'm guessing for most people it's already Monday during the day instead of midnight but I'm posting a public update as I like to do this once in a while during development.
First, for Patrons:
1) I will be (after I write this update) putting in the PINNED POST for the overall page a few new documents.
A - An update walkthrough documents with bookmarks/links to try and jump from scene to scene within the document itself. The overall walkthrough is I think 63 pages which is of course spaced out and not a dense 63 pages, but it's still pretty long! If all goes well on people checking it for errors, I'll release it generally too (maybe editing this post or more likely posting it on public downloads on the Discord channel).
B - Faction Sheet - also released prior but will be put in the same area of the pinned post.
C - Random Dev Notes - Just a few random notes by me in spur of the moment thinking, this is not a critical document and I will likely be evolving/changing it over time as well. It's not super long (I think 5-6 pages of normal paragraph type notes) but it's more for just curious people that want to see a few thoughts of mine as I wrote the WT edits, etc.
D - Anais/The Quantum Academy notes - When she is ready with this, I will also post it here, she seems about 75 percent done. She just got a boyfriend within the three weeks, so I am being very understanding about pushing her too hard on her side work, hehe
...So all four of these documents should eventually be first on that pinned Patreon post and then later (well I won't speak for the fourth document it's her call) on the public downloads channel on the Discord. But expect those first three up on the pinned post within an hour of me finishing this post. I am likely to make more changes as people point out stuff, but hopefully it's still useful as is!
2) Overall update - I have just completed Week 6 and am now at about 651 renders and 12 animations. It's hard as always finding "public" images that are not adult oriented but providing some above as samples
I am kind of doing pretty well in my opinion considering I tend to start slowly on most updates. I'm probably doing a little better than anticipated when I started.It's always strange for me to imagine Update 1 was like 457 renders. It took me like 2+ full months to do that one, and I'm cranking out 650 in much less time now! But a bad feeling I always have now is that I feel like the story is barely beginning at this point. This is because of some branching and admittedly at times wordy dialogue/exposition to move the story along.
The biggest reason I have always feared much shorter updates now (I consider very short like 500-750) is with the design of this game, one basic path might feel very, very, short. It's just the nature of how the game is structured. But I've always wanted to have a game with choices that tried to mean something meaningful later (especially the endings) for a nice payoff, etc.
3) I may as well say it now but I am likely to turn off billing in December this year and take a month off for getting married and doing the whole honeymoon thing
I've never taken a real break for 3-4 weeks since I started but I think this might be the time! I'm already butting heads with my own mother about planning (I am actually super low key and wanting to avoid big spending for this much prefer to save money for building a house) things as she wants it to be a much bigger event than we do! Both of our sets of parents wanted to put in about 60k each and we were horrified at the thought of spending that much on it! My fiance is describing my mother and I as two dragons fighting an epic battle in the sky perhaps he's right...heh. I am doubtful I will get super stressed about this but we'll see...I only care that he and I are together, everything else is basically just mostly for other people. No offense to any family/friends of mine as I want them there too...but I just need him there and I'm good.4) Steam - On Discord, I've listed some things I am trying to change. The biggest thing I would note is that with my highest tier person, I've done extra scenes (part of the deal) for the game and it may be included for sure in the Chinese version of a Steam KG. The scenes are NOT critical to the overall story but are more background, especially in the past with a teenaged aged Olivia and Ying Yue. (she briefly has appeared in a scene with toddler Olivia in the past) I am unlikely to include the other scenes I've done with this person privately given what they are...
But the main things are adding some walkthrough stuff (I especially want an ability to click or hover over a walkthrough option and it helps define what it means, etc.), some level of bios for characters (dom/sub Kane and good/evil Olivia splits too) and a gallery function...a few other things. Mainly languages right now are my focus too. I am likely to have a separate Chinese version if those scenes come in and the other desired languages as of right now are generally in order -- Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, French. I plan later to do some other languages but those are the main ones initially.
5) As stated a few times prior, my goal is still about a 2000 render update to help manage my time and sanity at the editing process. (5k was just a bit too much for me, I handled 3-4k a lot better) By this metric, I'm already approaching about 33 percent of the update, which is shocking to me because I feel like I just started!
Ok, I feel like I'm rambling at 1am so I'll stop now. But I'm grinding away working hard, thank you all!
Love,
Tess
Oh btw Patrons, I am literally SHOCKED at the dom poll results right now. It's the first time I have ever been legitimately surprised at the results. Not that the Pod 4 ladies are doing well, but the gigantic margin.
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