Progress Report

Okay! Been a bit overly long since I did a progress report! Thankfully, it's mostly good news. The wallpapers, of course, were already released. But that leaves everything else to cover...

Left Hand Magic

As you can see from the attached images, I've moved on to Trix's content. In fact, I've finished with her Day 1 and Day 2 content, and I'm working on Day 3. Sort of. I actually did them out of order, so it's not quite that simply. But effectively I'm at 2/3 days for her. I am going to limit it to just those three days. Originally, I'd hope for four, but I've been taking it easier this month for reasons I went over last time. More to the point, even with just the first three days of Trix, it will be six total scenes...with 9 new animations. Two of those scenes being nice, long, Weekend scenes. Meaning we aren't far off of typical size for a build. Slightly on the smaller size, but still within bounds of a typical Left Hand Magic release.

There's also another reason I'm halting renders a bit early. Specifically, that I'm intent on making another attempt at a cheat system for the game. I've tired twice previously and failed. But both were under rushed conditions. By giving myself a few extra days for coding/writing, I'm hoping I can get it working this time. As we're now significantly deeper into the game, the cheats would be nice to have now, so I'm intent on at least making a solid effort to get them up and running. The plan I'm working on would see people with the right code able to enable a version of the Relationship Menu that allows for the adding/subtracting of points for each girl, as well as sub and dom points.

The initial version probably won't include enabling all route variables. But I'm hoping to add that functionality eventually as well, so that the cheat enabled version will allow you to choose any route at any time. Not something I'd recommend for new players, but something which returning players might really appreciate, so they can see new content easier. 

Short Stories

This is the one place where I've really fallen behind this month -_-. I'd really hoped to have the first short already out by now. Instead, I only have about 3,000 words of it done. Though I'm really hoping to finish it up tonight and edit it tomorrow. Even then, I'll have to immediately pivot to the content for my fanfiction patreon's last story of the month. As such, I'm a little worried I may not get Andrea of the Silver Key's release out by end of month. I still need to reread that whole story first, since it's been over a year since I even touched it. I've always maintained that the Short Stories are the least important thing and might overrun, even if they will get done eventually...but I admit the idea of it overrunning into October, with the last Haven's Port build on the horizon, is stressing me the hell out.  

A Bet Maid

This has been going well. Renders should be done for it tomorrow! I don't see any issue with it being done by the 24th, which has been when I've targeted the Mixed Media Short for release each month, if possible. Something I've mostly managed to keep to, though last month's was a tad later.