5-28-22 Progress Update

We've got a lot of exciting news to share with you today!  First of all, the next public update is releasing next week, on June 3.  We usually try not to add any new content to these, only bugfixes, but in this one there are a few changes worth mentioning:

• Cinderella handjob/blowjob front view animated
• EPLOT park expansion knocked down to $1M (from $2M)
• Villain attractions rearranged - mainly to allow unlocking the Ink and Paint Club without EPLOT, for faster moneymaking
• New Patron pinup

So as you can see we've made a few updates, just based on things like when the patron pinup was finished.  We also took data from the last survey and the (for some reason very strong after v0.11) public backlash at the amount of "grind" in the game to make a few adjustments there as well.  Of course all of this content will also be included in v0.13 - coming sooner than you might expect, so you can safely skip this public build if you can wait.

Speaking of the survey, we're happy to hear that everyone's still enjoying the art, the writing, and how we're trying to blend humor with romance inside of an h-game.  Responses to the gameplay are still mixed, which was always going to be the hardest part to balance.  People rated the Tavern minigame higher than park building, drawing, and character quests (in that order), but of course some people said they didn't want any of them, only the scenes.  We hope that at least you feel that there's a good balance of scenes and gameplay, not constantly forcing you to play games but not a straight Visual Novel either.

We asked whether the game was too hard, again because of some very loud public feedback on some forums.  Your answer to this was "no", and asking about adding more hints was a bell curve around "neutral".  Adding hints isn't a trivial thing, because it would nearly double the amount of dialog in the game to add reminders or extra hint interactions after every step in an objective.  There's also the fact that many of the hints we do have are overlooked, which means what people really want is an in-game walkthrough.  This is something we will continue to discuss as a team and ask for feedback on, but for now, there's no problem in the game that can't eventually be solved just by visiting everywhere. :)

You responded that we should concentrate on new princesses first, followed by more content for existing princesses...and based on your write-ins, you want that content to involve multiple characters at once.  It's coming, we promise!  We have the story events all planned out, we just need one more particular character to show up first.

Finally, the write-ins are always interesting to read, but there isn't much to say about them here.  We will be re-issuing this survey to non-patrons after the public build goes live, but it was good to look at the results now to see how the non-patron response differs.

V0.13 is going very well.  This update focuses on Mulan and Jessica Rabbit.  All of Jessica's content has been finished and added to the game.  Mulan's art is maybe 25% finished, and her story has been outlined but not yet written.  Everyone's still having a blast making this game, and we hope that you're enjoying playing it just as much.

Thank you for your support!

-SID Gaming