Happy New Year 2023

For many of us, 2022 was quite a challenging year. 

2022's Retrospective:

At a personal level, this year forced me to take a step back from my daywork and invest more time into ManorStories and family life.

This was not done easily and certainly not in one day, but it produced healthy and positive outcomes, which I want to share with you.

This month's advent calendar is the most recent and visible outcome. It allowed me to complete a dear project Thief and confirm another Last Resort.

Sylvia got new scenes drawn and colored with many variations. Here are links to previews of the artistic work done for Sylvia in 2022 (patrons' posts) :

- New Chapter 5's Léa path scene sketches
- Léa & Sylvia team up in chapter 5
- Chapter 5 - Valérie 2nd scene combinations samples
- Sylvia behind the scenes: secondary characters creation and updates
- Sylvia in Femme Fatale Lingerie
- Léa's Lingerie sprite HD Version (Sylvia 5th Chapter)
- Valérie colored sprite for the upcoming 5th Chapter of Sylvia
- Sylvia and Léa Shower Scene Sprites
- Video: Updated Shower Scene Start
- Video: Updated Transitions + Auto Mode
- 2023-03 Sylvia Game Build
- Valérie does it ... depending on how you play ;) - WIP -
- Video: WIP animation for Valérie (chapter 5)
- Sylvia Chapter 5: Valérie's striptease WIP Images + Video
- Video: Extra animation WIP for Sylvia (Updated Boobjob in Chapter 4)
- New outfit for Sylvia in Sylvia's chapter 5
- New outfit for Léa in Sylvia's chapter 5
- Valerie Path - "Forgiveness is hard" (Sylvia 4th chapter's extension WIP) 

Still, there is a lot of work to do for the voice-over and code. The team worked hard this year to expand the previous chapters' visuals and story.

Now let's talk 2023:

Sylvia:
As said previously most of the work on Sylvia is now voice-over and coding.

We will produce a couple of builds for you in 2023 and work on the steam early and official releases.

The French version (and other translations) will be done after the official release as free updates.

Last Resort:
We plan a chapter of Last Resort every month. The story expands, and LaLaBun and I have a lot of joy bringing this universe to life.

We also plan to turn Last Resort into a motion comic and voice-over it. The casting for it will start in January / Early February.

Requests:
We will continue our patron requests monthly. BBCchan is enjoying streaming these, and we can't thank him enough for delivering exquisites artworks to delight you :)

3D Scenes:
You got it right! We are collaborating with two awesome 3D Animators and Directors.

We can't reveal who they are already as well as the Voice Actresses we have chosen to breathe life into these scenes ;)

Final thoughts and thanks:

None of our work and projects would have been possible without your support. Your kind words, encouraging comments and presence is our source of motivation. 

Now I would like to thank personally the following persons

BBCchan & LaLaBun for their incredible work, help, and involvement. Their talents amaze us every month. 

Dave for his fantastic fan-arts, energy, and motivation.

Dorn, Chimera46, Ivan E.Recshun & WinterLook for their talent and kind support.

And of course, our incredible cast of voice actors breathing life into our stories.

"The only move is to move forward!"
Happy new year

We wish you the best for 2023
With love

- Manor