Saturday Update!

Hello folks! It's time for updates!

I'm currently out on a long weekend vacation, but I've written this on Wednesday night and scheduled it for Saturday- so 'hi from the past' I guess!

I can say that I got a fair amount done for 3 days! I really hustled my hardest to make up for my time off LMAO

Here's the current placeholder progress:

Only one floating ending left!! 🎉

Let's show a few sneak peeks as usual- then I'll talk a bit about my plans for the next steps after the placeholders are done.

Almost there... I should finish the last ending's placeholders next week.

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I've made some fairly specific plans for what to do next!

• get art on DMG [ devote latter half of Fridays to this until it's done ] [ refamiliarize with photoshop's automate to extract fulls and thumbs, remove stupid lightbox, just put in raw with links ] also add in content warnings at top of art page
• build Google doc and fix permissions for Alpha testing bug reports/suggestions
• build warnings page
• build endings gallery
• build death token/hint system [ built in with endings gallery ]
• adjust floating ending balance [ need more optional health drops, need more optional sanity drops, need more optional strade love increases that do not adjust lover stat or lower it ]
• find Alpha test volunteers

That work should probably take me to somewhere around mid-April I think. Most of those tasks are only like a half day to 2 days of work each.

I won't ask for Alpha testers yet [ because I'm not ready yet ] but if you're interested, please be aware that it's a lot of work and kind of ruins the fun of the game [ sad but true ]. Alpha testing really isn't the fun one- you wanna wait for Beta testing if you just want to play the game early. 

I'll be looking for people with writing/editing experience, game testing experience, and people willing to sign an NDA/show me their ID [ I will only need 5-10 people ]

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Oh! I also snuck in a tiny bit of time before work when I woke up early to do some music program lessons! A few people suggested a program called 'Ableton', so I downloaded a 30 day free trial of Albeton Live and started doing the built-in lessons for beginners. 

I'm really excited to say I'm having a great time! I love it! Obviously, I barely understand anything, but the lessons got me to the point of making my first little midi loop ^o^

[ I've added it as a download to this Patreon post in case anyone wants to hear it, but it's VERY VERY beginner and just a tiny little loop LMAO ]

So far I'm incredibly impressed with this program. It has so many 'training wheel' type features for novices like me to be able to make something cool- despite having basically no experience. I'm excited to play with it more when I get some free time!

[ I know the full version is rather expensive... but I've got a month to keep learning it for free. That can be future  Gato's problem ]

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Last thing- I got an email from my merch supplier! They're finished making my order! They said they'll send it 'this week' and I think my shipping should be around 15 days hopefully... so I think we're still on course to get the next merch drop with the fox dakimakuras near the end of March 👍

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Take it easy and stay safe this weekend! Thank you guys so much for your support! I'll see you next week- hopefully with finished placeholders???