Progress Report #24: June, 2022

"Good things come to those who bait"

Hi folks,

We finally made it to the end of the month and honestly, it was one hell of a wild ride. Daily posts combined with relentless quality control testing brought us to the edge of our wits, but ultimately we're glad the Henosis patch patron release went favorably well.

That being said, it's time for one last push and bring forth the final report of the month. Originally meant to go out days ago, this one became a victim of priority but, better late than never, so lets dive into it!

Doppel made significant headway creating some explicitly juicy content and that too just in time before the patch went out. Basically, after landing on Henosis, Caly needed a job but in her quest to find one, she somehow ended up giving jobs instead...? Specifically, blowjobs and titjobs! Make sure to play the patch thoroughly to find out how that happened!

Our writers went full "literary mode" fleshing out a few updates to existing quests and adding new ones, all on short notice. Apparently, they were concerned about the light foot traffic in certain zones and had to give the city more life. 

Finally, the tech squad went all in optimizing the patch. The ultimate goal was to make the loading times close to minimal and this required the game engine to cache resources. However since this parameter is heavily influenced by the hardware, it was imperative that the cache value is tuned just right. Too little and it would have no impact. Too much and it would evidently crash the game a lot. 

Overall, the work is done and the patch released into the wild. Now we await the response from our patrons. If everything remains uneventful in the next few days, we'll follow the original plan and make a public release within weeks. However, the next patches following this one are all planned in a monthly (bi-monthly at the latest) release pattern. These new updates of course won’t be quite as large as this one, but we also won’t hopefully have to redo everything in one swift go again for quite a while either.

More on that after we return from a mini vacation of sorts. Drained batteries must be recharged, so we'll bid you farewell for a short time and will see you again around 8th of July.

Kind Regards, o/

Cursed-Atelier Team