0.8 Dev Cycle

Thanks for reporting bugs -- if you come across any, please drop them in the Discord like you've been doing.

There may be one hotfix release in the next day or so if there are substantial bugs to fix those.

Then we'll be releasing the Public version (which is truncated before Act I, and in future Public releases will not include HD art).

And following that? We'll start work on 0.8.

Are there changes? What does that mean for you?

First, you may see some edits to tier descriptions as we align them with the 'new' perks. So don't be alarmed.

New Perks?

Well, kinda. Going forward we'll be giving all our Origin and up tiers access to every release. It used to be that Origin tier would need to wait until the final release to see the new content and Handler+ tiers would receive every release -- getting a kind of drip-feed of content.

Now Handler+ tiers will receive releases on the date of release (example, 0.8.0). Then, a week later, we'll be opening the release up for our Sudden Agents. Two weeks after original release? Dossier tiers will receive the release, and then, after three weeks, Origin will receive the release.

Probably, somewhere in the above sequence, a second release (0.8.1) will be dropped for Handler+ and it will follow the same process.

Why are we doing this?

A few reasons:

• to give flexibility to us in our release schedule and what content/features we implement.

• to ensure that our supporters are receiving benefits no matter how long it takes us to drop a full dev cycle.

• But mostly: to ensure that supporters feel no pressure to support at higher tiers than is financially responsible and sustainable. We sincerely appreciate your continued support of Blue Swallow development and we want to make it easier, kinder, gentler and more rewarding for you all.

What will remain the same?

We'll continue the polling to ask you what you'd like to see in the next cycle (0.9). The options that won't be on the table will be those focuses of the current dev cycle (0.8).

Speaking of the current dev cycle, what's on the docket?

Here's a list of everything that's on our to-do. Will we do all of it? I sincerely doubt it, some are holdover notes and desires that might get some things to get pushed to 0.9, but it shows you what's on our roadmap.

Roadmap

Gymnast HSV

Cheerleader HSV (College and HS)

Backpacking GY

High School dating

Act I Whore

Act I Dancer

New HS arc: the Loser

Modeling in College Arc

Unique Tat/Piercing during Gap Year

Add in additional kink text where appropriate

(Possibly) Make HS First Sex Unique

Sig Other dating post-HS?

Expand bodies array to account for duration of relationship (ONS, STR, LTR, FB, Cheated, Cheated on)

Relationship alt text through HS

Bro/Sis content

Mom / Dad content. (Grades reaction, postcard from Mom, mom around and interested in her life more than she knew, differing color based on type of dad)

Dating choice in Uni

Make HS First Sex affect later passages

Improve/deepen references to best friends in HS

Clothes mix and matching

HD Art

A rear-view for certain situations/scenes

Improved performance of the dossier

Additional hairstyles

Piercings rendering on the doll

New animations

New outfits

Disheveled versions of clothes

New breast size (adding in a step because 'small' looks more like 'tiny' and we need a true B/C in there as well as an A/AA)

GIFs for Popups

Yeah, so. That's a lot. I hope you're excited. I know we are.

Thank you again and here's to our next dev cycle!