[News] Dev's blog #48

Hey there!

If you are new here or just not up to date with the latest news, I highly recommend reading these previous Dev's blogs: PART #1 -> PART #2 -> PART #3 -> PART #4 

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Sorry it took me so long to share development news with you guys.

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About the v0.9.5

I'm almost done developing the Basic version of the next update. I'll publish a "Sneak peek" and "Lewd sneak peeks" posts for v0.9.5 in the next few days.

Ashley and Rachel won the poll about additional events, so they both got one additional event in v0.9.5.

1) The following events are written:

• 2 events with Rachel
• event with Sara
• 2 party events with Nikki
• 1 party event with Ashley (bad girl path) + 1 more event with her (good girl path)
• 2 party events with Ivy
• small party event with Eric
• small party event with Vlad
• some dialogues and scenes with cameo characters

Unfortunately I had to postpone the event with Carol I wrote about in a previous news post for future updates. The reason is that there were two winners in the voting for additional events - Ashley and Rachel. This added a bit of work for me, so version 0.9.5 will be without Carol.

Other than that, I've done everything I planned in v0.9.5.

Although in my opinion, the main event of v0.9.5 (the sorority party) could have been made even more intense and varied. But the development of the current update already took too much time.

2) Renders and animations:

About ~660 renders and 5 animations are ready

At this point, I have about 70-100 more renders to do. Hopefully I can get this done in the next 3-4 days.

After that, I'll spend some more time testing the new version before sending it in for proofreading. I don't know how long time all this work will take, but I'll do my best to publish v0.9.5 Basic by the end of May. 

The Extended version will be publish a little later. But even if I can't do it before June 1 you have nothing to worry about because the billing pause will be expanded for June (see more about it below).

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Other news

1) I'm going to pause billing for June (one more time)

There are two reasons for this: 

• In a previous news post, I warned you that development is going at a much slower pace than usual at the moment. I also mentioned that because of this the 0.9.5 and 1.0.0 versions will take about 1.5 - 2 months to develop of each of them. So most likely v1.0.0 will be released only in the mid/late July. Due to that, I don't see the point of resuming payments in June.
• As I wrote earlier, I would like to give all patrons who have stayed with me all this time a small gift in the form of a free update.
  Since I'm not sure that the Extended version and General release will be published in May, it made sense to expand the pause in payments for the next month so that everyone would have time to download v0.9.5 before the next payment cycle.

For now, I don't know how things will be in the future, how my work mode and productivity will change, and if I'll ever be able to go back to my previous game development pace.
So I don't make any empty promises now. Just will keep you informed as I go along.

About availability of Patreon content in June:

• The dev's blogs and news will be available to all visitors, not just to patrons;
• All March / April / May / June custom renders and wallpapers will be available to all patrons in maximum resolution (4k). Also, all patrons will be able to vote in polls about girls for custom renders (usually such polls available for patrons with a $20+ tier)
• All patrons will have access to vote in the poll about the additional events for v1.0.0 (usually such polls available to patrons with a $5+ tier)

BUT!

• Sneak peeks for v0.9.5 - v1.0.0 will be available only to patrons with a $5+ tiers
• Early access and the official walkthrough for v0.9.5 - v1.0.0 will be available only to patrons with a $10+ tiers
• The v0.9.5 - v1.0.0 Extended will be available only to patrons with a $20+ tiers
• Voting for characters for extra events and extra sneak peeks for v0.9.5 - v1.0.0 will be available only to patrons with a $50+ tiers

2) About the remake

Over the past month, I have completely stopped working on the remake of the beginning of the game and focused on development the 0.9.5 update.

Maybe I'll spend some time on the remake in June.

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Thanks to everyone who stayed with UoP all that time!

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Best wishes,
Dream Now