Dev Diary for May

Hi guys,

it's been a hard month, sometimes I get a feeling that the project is falling apart. I'm not a big fan of sharing bad news, but it is what it is. Briefly on may updates:

• I am personally completely drained on the current game dev update. I literally can't handle this update anymore, I need to work on some other stuff. So I'll be uploading dev build today 'as is' - it will contain updated Lana & Jack & Tommy variants of scene and Tuna Threesome 2 scene and related quests. I've started working over the voicing for Lana and Tuna, but to be honest the pressure of 'no updates' is too hard. I just need to release it and work from your feedback next.
• All I want to do now is to work over the new scene with Casey, though I have no idea how to set it up into a chained story because of the issue with the artists :/
• Lana's in-game voicing was done, with around 10 minutes recorded in total. I've started adding it into the game (starting from the intro), but this will take a hell lot of time, assuming I also need to make notes "to record line here and there" in parallel. So I moved this and am voicing Lana & Jack & Tommy for the next update.
• Tommy's part of the story and related scenes are changed to make Tommy clearly a sapient, talking character
• The art team is still under the effect of war (at this stage it's stress, but it results in 'no work done most of the time). Effectively "Lana & Weidguy" scene is in progress right now, the other scene's status is either 'unknown' or 'on hold'. So basically the development of the content for Grocery and Gym is delayed (the plan was to make comics, scenes, and characters for Gym)
• At some point, I even re-started drawing myself, but the quality is pretty low and the amount of time it takes is huge and cannot be combined with doing other types of work too. But hell, if things go that bad, I think I'll do the drawings myself, like old times.
• The girl who was doing Casey's voice has left the project (she's not doing any adult voicing anymore) - which is another hit, especially in front of introducing three new scenes with Casey in the coming future. I'll be looking for a girl with similar voice later on.
• The guy who does his best is our animator - he's stocking assets for future updates, while everyone else is more or less failing their parts..

So the short-term plan is to:

• Finish up voicing for Lana's scene
• Finish up voicing Lana in-game dialogs (and do the patron release for v5)
• Set up and release Casey & Ram gym scene
• Find a new voice for Casey (as close to existing one as possible)