JULY PROGRESS UPDATE
Added 2022-07-24 20:11:44 +0000 UTCWhat we are working on: World of Sisters: Dating with Natalie (v0.16)
We are making good progress with ''Dating with Natalie update'' where we will show one deeper story through different phases of falling in love/ / flirting / dating / activities / first sex with over 15-20 pages of talks and some branches.
Our challenges in the past month:
We had to draw over 100 different pictures for this update (emotes / poses / flashbacks / characters / backgrounds / animation images / sexy pictures / add 20 new sounds / write about 60 x A4 pages of talks / texts, add & test them in the game with emotions and character poses / find & add 3 new music tracks with negotiated licences, deal with old and failing computers - in last month we experienced about 60-70 blue screen of deaths... let that number sink for a moment, many of you would throw PC out of the window, and lose motivation to do anything for a week, but we keep on fighting and continue work on this project. We also upgraded our discord with big thanks to The1stAmerican and Popabear for story telling consultations.
When will this 0.16 update be ready?
We have 70-75% content done at the moment and soon we will start animating and beta testing the update during upcoming weekend. We also know for certain we won't be able to release this update in this month, but rather early in the first week of August.
What is part of this update?
+ 5 new ''arguments'' talks happening in the evening at home entrance (At home entrance in the evening everyday)
+ 30 new talks with Natalie as her main story line deeper than any other character we had before.
+ 50 new talks with interactive home assistant (talking fish integrated with Amazon Alexa, buyable in the mall)
+ 20 new talks with new character Djinn in magical fap-lamp.
+ 20 new talks in park -> park fountain location (when you click on the water)
+ 5 spying on VIP and hearing what they are up to (their plans for the future uncovered)
+ New claimable Patreon reward codes (for 0.16)
+ 1 big sex scene with Natalie.
+ 1 smaller sex scene with Alexa.
What will come next?
The latest vote poll character Katy won with 75% of vote power. (2nd was Judy with 8%, 3rd Sophia with 7%, 4th was Jess with 2%) The update 0.17 will be fully dedicated to Sisters / Family relationships with focus to advance Katy's story and her love brother/sister relationship with the Player.
Here is a latest vote poll to choose what type of story would you prefer Katy to have (started on 24.7.2022): https://www.patreon.com/posts/69509249
What else is new? (Extra information)
+Better sounds in animations for Maya / Luna / Sharon
+New emotions and character poses
+Save system upgraded
+Roughly 50 reported bugs fixed (9 were major ones)
+Fixed some stuck issues on slower FPS PC in some mini games (not all yet)
+5 New effects added
+Multiple talks have received grammar corrections and fixes
+Anti cheating encoding added
+Faster code execution due to code compilation method optimization
+NEW FEATURE - Item talks counter - certain items have multiple talks so when you click on them different talk will appear, but till now there was no tracking how many have you read and we made a simple way to display it next to a cursor, so when you are interested in something you will clearly see how many conversations are unread there.
We will rework many existing conversations to display this transparently, first prototype to check this will be park fountain location where you can click on the water to toss a coin and make a wish.
+NEW FEATURE - Extra character quest lines - In short so far our code supported only tracking one main story in the task list, resulting in one traceable main story with many side talks. And now we will make branches to gain access to specific stories to tell. Some could unlock specific sex scenes.
Example: progressing with Jess at home will still remain her main story, but simultaneously you can progress with her in the skate park could result in unlocking extra sex scene that will take place in the skate park.
In task list you would see both branches and it will be up to you which one you wish to progress first (or skip side quest story completely) despite both awarding experience to Jess. Not gonna mention this feature will make much more sense later on and with more such quest lines you could skip parts you consider ''boring'' (respectively focus on parts you enjoy more).
Thank you very much for your support and helping us to push it's game, story and all misc technical and testing stuff further, so we can finally start focusing on the sisters main story line starting in the next update 0.17+ We have many surprises prepared there which you will love to play through.
With kind regards of a good day, John from WOS team.
Comments
Update 2.0: It seems like we will have a few 3-4 more days delay due to a situation in the family. I will keep you updated.
2022-08-17 02:01:50 +0000 UTCI have posted an update on our discord, we are doing alpha tests today. It looks good so far. Still we have a lot of animations to do, it could be in 3-7 days, hard to guess more precisely
2022-08-15 17:25:04 +0000 UTCHello any updates yet?
2022-08-15 13:36:41 +0000 UTCAnother quick update: We are progressing well with first half of the Natalie's story parts, and it looks great. We are reworking game menu screen background with animation of Natalie (something like League of Legends do) Third big thing is enabling the public feedback collection for individual talks within the game, which should help us improve and rework weak points of the game eg. by replacing the boring talks or adding some visualization to places not well received. The graphical content looks promising too, we have 3 animation sequences and 3 new animations in the works. To also mention some challenges, there were some technical issues with task system to comply with side quest-lines plus I am having a flu which makes it inconvenient. Some writing stuff depends on having good mood to make it feel well. I am behind the communication with everyone about what is happening, and we are progressing every day on finishing this main content update asap for patrons first, and only then catch up missing announcement stuff. In the following days we hope to complete first half of the story by putting together individual pieces together and testing them up.
2022-08-08 10:57:56 +0000 UTCThank you for the updated information :)
2022-08-07 14:42:42 +0000 UTCOkay just it may be a little bit from dev perspective, here it is shortly: we have the stuff aside Natalie mostly ready, tested and with all the graphic and sounds (this part is adding about an 1 hour in gameplay to play (good quality) and some talks gonna expand the story further) Regarding natalie mainstory we are still working on all flashbacks to better describe what is happening as from our beta tests it was not evident (despite some parts were not yet made), also you will see her in a new sport dress and we invented new sport event called the fox run (girl participants run with fox tails to reach the finish line quickiest) where Natalie runs and compete with other girls and fails (space to show human struggle, player conforming her and fact she has dream to chase which you can motivate her to) as you cheer up for her in a small mini game event will happen and I will start working on it tomorrow. The talks for her generally are only complete from 60 perc, but we have a structure and storyboards regarding the rest prepared (this is not pre assumption) regarding coding I have spend last 5 days tuning task and navig. System to work with side quest lines, which had multiple major bugs (it turned out to be a performance problem in some situations on slower PC and android devices so we had to design workarounds, which I don't like but are innevitable) what's next is settling up another line of testing in 5 days (hopefully final before the release) and adding individual pieces of talks for Natalie together. 2 sex scenes for Natalie are ready for animation (but they are waiting on me so I am kind of bottleneck now as way too much stuff waits for me to finish putting them to a game) that is the summary today from the past few days and few to come in a nutshell.
2022-08-04 23:42:08 +0000 UTCAppreciate the 2 days update
2022-08-04 16:53:00 +0000 UTCBut I could provide update every 2 days if people would be interested in that.
2022-08-01 23:34:44 +0000 UTCWe would love to provide an estimate but even we honestly don't know exact date, we also don't want to make cuts which would decrease the expected quality. Here is the status of individual parts (updated today, the displayed progress on the picture was made in 4-5 weeks, so best estimation is within 1-2 weeks) https://imgur.com/4g0uREG
2022-08-01 04:05:10 +0000 UTCAny ETA specifically on the release date? Im waiting so much for this update, thanks
2022-08-01 01:29:28 +0000 UTCWe can implement an initial content skip button or some way to jump to your previously left progress, so you won't need to go through the same story. I think you mean this with your question and we are open to talk about it on our discord. We can implement this as a new game feature when you are making new game for returning players for example. But we don't want to see people looking for cracked version of the game with risk of some virus or something. Also by anti-cheat I meant something totally different. (in context of altering game data and then writing us mails, why the saves are not working)
2022-07-25 20:10:55 +0000 UTCOh yay an anti cheat. Just why. I like cheats. I do not.like grind at all. I'd rather wait until someone cracks it then use a patch or cheat. Guess you just lost my support money.
Vance Watson
2022-07-25 19:10:05 +0000 UTC
