Dev Log 12

Hey guys!

How was 0.4? I hope you enjoyed it! Welcome to all of the new faces that have joined since its release, I really appreciate all of your support.

So, on to the devlog:

0.4.1

I mentioned in the release post for 0.4 that I would do another version with sound added to the entire game in a week or two, and obviously it's now two weeks later and that didn't happen. Why not? Mission creep. I've decided to do a few more things in 0.4.1 that I hope to have ready for the public release of 0.4, since they're mostly going to be useful for new players :-

Character bios
Some of the guys on discord mentioned struggling to keep track of all the different characters between updates, which honestly hadn't occurred to me because I think about the game 24/7, but I thought it was a good point. They suggested adding a character info page, so that's what I've been doing:

So a few things to say about this:

• Ignore all of the Lucy clones, they're just place holders.
• Obviously I'm not going to fill this screen with spoilers, so the information for each character will unlock as you discover it in the game.
• The notes section at the bottom will only ever contain major plot points, doing more than that would take an unjustifiable amount of time with every new update, time that would be better spent on new content.
• The menu will be accessible from the in-game menu while you're playing, not just the main menu.

You can't really tell from the pictures, but I've actually finished most of the behind-the-scenes code for this screen, and all of the main girls are done, so it shouldn't take much longer to finish.

Sound
Of course, I'm still going through and adding sound to the rest of the game in 0.4.1, though at the moment I'm only about half way done due to my time being devoted to the other things in this devlog.

Day 1 Rework
I've mentioned this before, though I'm not sure if I said it in a dev log. A lot of people don't like the small sandbox section that is left over at the start of the game, android users in particular seem to struggle with it, so I'm going to remove it completely and turn day one into straight visual novel like the rest of the game.

That about does it for 0.4.1, so if you've already played 0.4 there's probably not enough there to worry about playing it again, which brings me on to:

0.5

Of course, I haven't been neglecting 0.5. In fact it's been taking up most of my time, and I'm a fair bit further on than I normally am by the first dev log of an update - normally at this point I have the story planned out in detail, and the writing about half done. But for 0.5, the writing is complete! It comes in at roughly 17,000 words, making it 70% longer than 0.4, and the longest update yet. It will cover days 16 and 17, and content wise it will focus mainly on advancing the founding families storyline, although there are still a lot of entertaining scenes with the girls, as well as two animated scenes, one with a girl that hasn't had one yet.

Overall it's been a crazy busy couple of weeks, with my attention split between more different projects than I'm used to - normally I just focus all in on one task until it's complete and I can move on to the next, but I'm very happy with the progress!

It's much too early to give you a release date yet, but I'm eager not to let it go too long between updates, despite the increased amount of content - which is why I've been working so hard in the last couple of weeks!

I'll speak to you all again in the next dev log on July 9th, but until then feel free to contact me here or on discord if you have any feedback on this post, or the game in general.

As always, thanks for all your support!

- Cosy Creator