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January 2020 NewsLetter

Dear Patrons and patronettes!

The first month of 2020 is almost over and time flies as the team is devoted to delivering great content for your viewing pleasure.

As Marjaana mentioned last month: life has a weird sense of "humour", throwing curveballs when you least expect it. However, anytime I look at our progress and how supportive our audience is, I am filled with positive energy.

Thank you very much for your support.

Sylvia

Mentioning the new prologue is a nice way to start our report on Sylvia's development progress.
An opening is a very delicate scene. It's purpose is to engage the audience with the story.
Visuals and acting are key to creating a connection with the players. BBCchan and Marjaana are doing their very best to achieve this.

DornVA has done a fantastic job in Last Resort as narrator, and it was a no-brainer for us to ask her to voice this prologue as well.
She impressed the team by the quality of her performance, departing from the mystic "voice of the truth" in Last Resort to a more contemporary narrator for Sylvia.

Even if most of the scene is currently still on the drawing boards, I hope you will enjoy this preview.

 Vidéo preview of the prologue 


We added this pose to the first sex scene in Sylvia's path in the 4th chapter. I don't want to spoil more, so please check the event section to learn about the story behind this pose.

We refined the structure of the 4th chapter, and put a lot of effort to ensure goals, choices, and dialogues match the direction we want to follow for this chapter.
Marjaana is an expert is creating the super helpful flowcharts allowing us to maintain a cohesive structure for the chapter.

Earning the heart of your favorite is the result of decisions made from meaningful choices.

We know very well that you are all expecting something else than a dummy screen showing three icons "With which girl do you want to date". ;-)

In order to support this objective, we are introducing the "Talk Battle" system.
You have already experienced it in some form in the teasing scene with Sylvia in chapter 1.
In short a "Talk Battle" is a “discussion puzzle”; you must select the right line at the right time to maximize your score.

We reserve this pretty immersive type of sequence to pivotal moments in the chapter.

Video of talk battle tech-demo

We can't wait to present you the results of all this intense work and hear our cast bring life to the dialogues.

 

Events

Patron requests are always a nice moment in the month. It's great fun to read your requests, and this month something very peculiar happened. Please have a look:

If you read this newsletter the intended order, you might have recognized one of the pictures...
One of you requested Sylvia in a pose we found so good and fitting, giving us no choice but to include it in the game!

It's an incredible feeling for us to make this happen!

 

Audio Stories

We are proud to present the first of a two part audiostory called "My online friend".
Follow the a gorgeous busty woman teasing her "online" friend in a very 'subtle' manner.

We are glad to team up with TemptyVA . She made her character come alive and her performance was great from the very first take.

Viriden is back illustrating the cover art. His painting has such warm colors and lovely details on the character’s hair and wet shirt.

The second part is scheduled for March, and to continue with this tease-themed story: all we can tell you is to prepare yourself for some utlra-sexy action!
Please have a listen to this 2minutes sample 


I could not end this newsletter without congratulating Pixie Willow for reaching 20,000 followers on twitter. Congratulations Pixie!

Thank you very much for your support,

Warm regards,

Manor

January 2020 NewsLetter

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