DA 0.8 Important notes, Info and Insider Access.

Hello guys! Here's some information I would like to share with you guys about the updates. 

As you guys have read in my previous posts we've been encountering some issues with 0.8. Been planning on making a private post to update you guys more as I can't post these images/vids on public so here it is. 

• Personal info

Anyway, I've been going super hard the past weeks to try to get it out of beta and give you guys the full update but it's truly a futile attempt. I pushed as much as I could till today but I have to travel out of the city in a few hours, back to the village for a bit! I'll be there for 3 days due to the super duper awesome Mid-Autumn Moon Cake Space Hamster festival. My mother will be mad at me if I don't go home so we have no choice. In fact, I feel exactly like the MC in DA right now. (If you play the update in the "Moon" quest, you will understand my lame pun. Visiting Moon in the Autumn house XDXD)

So no desktop computer but it's a good chance to start chatting with you guys on discord again. I've been muting discord for some time now.

• About the update

Okay, I feel like blowing my own head off right now like Tracy over here because it's been an utter futile attempt to get the bar event sorted. This event will probably end up at 200 animations. We already have more than 100 animations for bar event alone and I don't think we're done. I also need to do introduction scenes for each animation. (Eg, you can't just play the animation, it becomes lame. You need to do mini story scenes for each action button if you get what I mean. So that it's actually good to play rather than just a scene player.)

I've been trying so hard to get it out of beta but no can do. I've uploaded some of the animations on vimeo above so you guys can take a look at what some of animation looks like. By the way, just you guys have an idea of what the scale involves, I only managed 4 animations yesterday. Even the most minor animations will take an hour of focus work. Adding complexity can take many multiple hours each excluding stuff like setting up the scene itself + coding. You can easily burn 10-12 hour days for a few animations.

• 0.8.5 Part 1

Since we are already at the last tier, I have no choice but to put it out of beta and list it as part 1. I will try to finish up when I from the village and put out a part 2. Expect it soon. It's truly so near yet so far. I'm really wanting this update to be full and fun. So much work was put into this update and I think if we were able to release it well, it would have been a fantastic update. Sadly that is not the case.

If you're patient, I suggest waiting for part two and playing. But you can also check out part 1 if you're impatient. The content in part 1 will take you about 1.5 hours.

• Issues (Spoilers ahead)

I've mentioned the problems we faced already int he previous post but I think you guys as patrons should have more detail as to going on behind the scenes, I think it's best I just tell you guys what's up and give some more info. Now that it's private post, I can post some pics too so it's nice.

****But BE WARNED SPOILERS AHEAD. To explain I need to spoil some stuff so you can stop reading if you want. Btw, this is written from a dev perspective not a player. *** Also, it's best if you guys play 0.8.5 part 1 if you haven't so you understand what I'm talking about.

Why are the updates so haphazard and announced early?

Let me communicate with you guys more so you can have an idea.

The planned content for this update is Mia, Moon, Sophia. You guys already know the problems we face in releasing episodic updates and blending storylines. 

Here's another core issue (Which is in my opinion actually the main issue), players been waiting for main girls update for some time.

Here's the kicker, you don't get to lewd the main girls until later!

Do you see the corruption stage? Mia is at bar 1. You need to lewd them slowly as the game goes on. That's how corruption works.

Imagine it from my perspective. I've already planned my idea for this awesome game etc. Now as it's my first game, within the first 2 months I realized the problem. Even as early as 0.2 - 0.3, people are already complaining when Mia lewd? This is different to creating a full game and then selling it. We rely on patron incentive to release updates every month. So the best planned games are games that structure in a way where every episode needs to have sufficient lewds and tease for the next episode and you scale it up. I didn't think of that before starting the game!

I also have private chats with many long term patron buddies and most of them mention same things as well.

This create significant problems for me. Firstly, because the storyline in DA is intertwined, I cannot push one character to the point where she is at level 3 and lewd her first. That way, you can slowly lewd one character at a time each episode.

In fact, per my original plan, none of them main girls get lewded until Sage and Moon moves into the house, which is after Sage explodes.

Do you see now the problem with releasing an update of Mia/Moon/Sophia? You have ZERO lewds. Which is why, I need to pump in the bar girls event into Sophia's quest. For example Sophia event, I am 100% sure the spanking event isn't enough for you guys. Although its fun and develop her more.

(By the way if you're complaining about DA, I shall let you know about a game (I won't mention the name). It's another sandbox game about spanking and it got away with 3 years of ZERO LEWDS. Like literally ZERO. You guys complain about main girls but at least we have so many lewds with many girls. By the way, the game hovered below 1k patrons for a long time and now it finally blew up to almost 4k patrons in the top 50 ranking. So you see? Patience and building a game for the long term is important instead of rushing lewds.)

I've been really trying to balance since the beginning by getting out other characters and Catherine lewds to tide the wave. At least until we get to the good stuff.

Before we bring Sophia to Maeve, we need to go through the Bar event where we invite Moe to the bar in order to get the Zorya album off him. Why?

1. Because I need to do the bar system anyways to finish season1

2. Because I needed to put in lewds.

At least we can keep fans satisfied if they get the bar lewd scenes (which is pretty awesome by the way.) It will continue to tempt players to wait for main girls if those scenes are good. 

So from that point, I was still pretty confident I could complete the bar event but as we get closer and closer to the announced date, I'm starting to be under heavy pressure because it isn't as easy as I thought. Like I mentioned, we are already at 100+ animations and still ongoing. I'm also kinda picky in the sense that I keep wanting to add more stuff to make it better. The content is too huge for me to cover in one update.

It's a similar case with Mia's pregnancy. I actually discussed this scene long time ago with patrons and came up with the plan to inject Mia with a special genome so that she goes cumcrazy early on. So at least players can get pregnant lewd. This can accomplish two task. It can work as a tutorial on the pregnant mechanic and show the player how to inject the genome as well. (Later you can run around town and inject any girl you want for fun with a variety of different genome that can have different effect like ridiculous boob size or extreme lactation etc etc. You can even turn them into animalistic behavior and keep them in farm at late stage depravity.)

However, it ruins the pacing of the game. So what to do? We actually had the plan to give player a choice and if he choose to inject Mia, it will cause a gameover bad ending and the player can collect another one of many gameover deaths (Yes, you can actually collect all the scenes. The system will be in place shortly and you can see if you've unlocked all death scenes.)

I actually still have the animation I did months ago. But this path feels like very much a cop out. Although it might buy time for Mia to get corrupted.

Yeah, that's just in a nutshell what the issue is. Anyway, thanks for the support and being fans of the game. Good stuff incoming, I'm sure you guys will enjoy what's to come. 

• Closing

At this moment, I need some extra time to release the bar event and fill out what we need to fill out as a part 2. I will try as best as I can. But I want something good as well. So hang tight peepo! It's pretty hard to describe my thoughts and challenges I face on a patreon post but I tried. Hopefully you guys understand what I mean. 

In any case, in season 2, I have planned a much better structure so I'm really looking forward to that. I'm sure our releases will be much better. I have structured the planned events much more in line with what I've learnt so far so it will be good I hope. 

Alrighty, I have to travel back to the village now. 

You can chat with me on discord. Just DM me if you have any questions.

Please avoid using patreon inbox, it's too much for me to reply. 

See you all peepos! Speed is my energy!

Happy Mid-Autumn Moon Cake Space Humster Festival! 

Much love, Moolah.