[News] Dev's blog #53

Hey there!

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About the v1.1.0

So far, I don't have much news about the next update since I started working on it just a couple of days ago. But here are some highlights:

• it starts with a morning event with Rachel
• ends with a date with Sara
• there will be an important plot fork in Kim's storyline (she's a side character, but anyway)
• Sasha will finally start fulfilling her promise
• there will be some progress on Nikki's painting (maybe for a number of reasons I'll postpone it to v1.1.5, but that's very unlikely)

1) Events:

• 1 event with Rachel
• 1 event with Kim

Also planned: 1 big event with Sara, 1 event with Sasha, 1 event with Nikki

So far, this is the entire list of events, but most likely it will be increased with a 2-3 more events + two additional events based on the results of a poll.

Voting for additional events will be published in the coming days.

2) Renders and animations:

A couple of renders and 2 animations are ready

About the remake
(only the beginning part of UoP)

Everything is going well, maybe a little slower than I would like, but that's fine. 

In the last days of September, I managed to make ~150 renders, rewrote about 800 lines of dialogs, and made many small edits.

Below you can see a comparison of some scenes before and after:

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With regard to rewriting dialogs, I make changes for three reasons:

1) I have changed my style of writing dialogues over the last two years of game development. So now I'm trying to bring the whole text to a unified style

2) There are a lot of strange statements, harsh expressions, nonsense, and other unwanted things in the current version of dialogs. 

3) Some dialogs at the beginning part can't convey the right nature and personality of some characters. This is especially true for Carol, Yuki, and Ashley.
For example, starting from updates 4-6, I gradually began to correctly convey Ashley's stubborn, rebellious, and slightly childish nature. But in the first updates, Ashley seems more serious than she should be.

For those who care about progress in numbers:

                               Scope of work               Done

Scripts:                      5600 lines                850 lines
Renders:                  roughly 1200                 150
Animations:                      -                             4

This is the minimum I planned to do. Ideally, it would be great to remake a little more than that, but we'll see how things go.

About Patreon page

In the last days of September, Patreon suggested to switch to a subscription billing plan. I don't know why they introduced this feature only now, but nevertheless, from September 29-30 you won't have to pay for a subscription in the first days of each month. Now you will be charged monthly on the same day you joined* 

Example: you joined on the 25th and on the 1st of the following month you were charged again (after only 5-6 days of subscription). Now, if you join on the 25th, you will be charged only on the 25th of the next month*

*Relevant only for new and returning patrons. If you have been with me since August, then you will continue to be charged at the beginning of the month, as usual.

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Best wishes,
Dream Now