A short development update on a short chapter.

As you can tell from the progress infographic on the pinned post (and added here), chapter 9 is rapidly closing in on completion. Usually, around this time, I'd pull up the number of images created for this chapter, compare that to the number of images in the previous chapter, and do the same for hours spent on the previous and current chapters, and muse a bit about what that means for the size and the amount of content it adds.

But in this case, since the next chapter is such a departure from the previous chapters when it comes to scope, I won't. The numbers don't compare well and are especially skewed this time round by the need for chapter 8 to lay a lot of groundwork for graphical assets and coding, and chapter 9 having to do almost none of that.

So instead I'll just tell you what you can expect.

As I mentioned before, chapter 9 is the first of a couple of smaller chapters that each focus on delivering on a promise the game made earlier, while bringing the story to a moment of closure. Since there isn't much big story stuff left, it doesn't make sense to have a huge chapter with a large arch to cover in one sitting.

So instead of the usual recipe of having that big chapter with a bunch of big lewd scenes with a little bit of everything for everyone, these chapters will just focus on one thing and (hopefully) do it right, while still adding some of the usual small scale shenanigans going on on the side and nudging the story to completion.

If we're talking size, I'd say it's about a 3rd the size of a normal chapter? Something along those lines. But it features a lot more images created for the occasion, instead of building on an existing situation and expanding that.

Since it really focusses on one promised moment, the player will have the option to opt into that particular activity at the start of the chapter in case they sidestepped the subject, so the chapter isn't just talking faces and an unexpectedly quick ending for them.

So what is next? Well, first I'm going to finish the remaining content, and probably add one more short scene as a post credits scene. Then I'll do a first pass of testing it myself and do all the countless little things that need doing to get it ready for release. After that you can expect a short beta as I'm not expecting any big problems, and a general release soon to follow.

So it shouldn't be too long now before it's in your hands.