[News] Dev's blog #46

Hey there!

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Just a reminder that I have paused billing for another month, so you will not be charged at the beginning of April (only if you will be an active patron at the start of the next billing cycle).
If you cancel your subscription in March and come back in April, you will be charged for April! Be careful!

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 and PART #2 

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Now about the development process and more

1) About events

The development of v0.9.5 is going quite slowly (compared to the usual pace). For now, I'm not able to fully focus and kind of not in the right mood to design new events and write new dialogues. So the list of already written events is quite small at the moment:

• event with Sara (about half of it written)
• event with Rachel
• party event with Nikki
• small party event with Ashley (if she's become a bad girl)

This is about a third of the events I have planned for v0.9.5.

2) About renders

There are no renders and animations yet. It took me about two days of work just to create the big party scene at the sorority house (light set-up, main and side characters, a bunch of new cameo characters, junk around the house, and so on). And that's only for the first floor. It remains to do the same for the second floor.

3) About current game development

Due to reasons from the paragraph #1 and because of a couple of more things I had some difficulties writing the dialogues for v0.9.5 (especially the event with Sara, which was never finished) and working on something new in general. So I decided to switch to a slightly different type of work in the past few days so as not to waste time and just keep working on the game somehow.

I started to remake the beginning part of the game because the quality of it is quite low (compared to the last updates). That applies to some content that was released before update 0.3.0. Pretty bad render quality, weird-looking characters and their facial expressions in places, lack of animations, terrible English, some stupid dialogues in places and a lot of other things I would like to change. This doesn't apply to all of the content from the beginning part of UOP. For example, I'd like to redo the first scenes with Roxy (gym, men's locker room, shower), the first night with Carol, the Roxy party event, and so on.

In the last 3 days that I've spent redoing UOP I've managed to rewrite about 35-40% of the dialogues from what I had planned. Of course, this is only a small part of all the work to be done...

I know that some of you (or maybe all of you) don't share my point of view and don't understand why I spend time redoing the beginning part of UOP. There are two reasons for this:

• Now I don't really like some of the content from this part myself, and I'm even a little ashamed and embarrassed that new players have to play it 
• In the future I plan to release the game on Steam so I want to raise the overall quality of the game to the desired level by that time

4) About Steam

I'm still taking my time with Steam because I think it's wrong to put an unfinished and unpolished product out there. But here are a few thoughts about it:

• Before releasing UOP on Steam or any other platform, I have to rework the beginning part of the game
• Most likely the game will be released in parts. These could be chapters, episodes or something like that. This way I can better control the quality of the game
• As I wrote earlier, the Basic version of the game will be free (at least as long as I continue to create most of the game alone).
  The Extended version will be released as a paid add-on (I don't know if it's possible, but I'd like to make it so that all patrons who have ever been "Advanced dreamer" can get the Extended version on Steam for free if they want. Just to avoid overpay)
• For players from Germany (and other countries where Steam blocks games for adults) UoP will be still available on Patreon. I mean, I'm not going to leave Patreon for Steam or anything like that. 

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That's all the news for today. I'll save a couple of them for next time.

I apologize for the lack of updates in the near future one more time. I hope you won't lose interest in UOP because of that.

Stay well and safe, guys.

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Best wishes,
Dream Now