I've gathered you all here...

Hi everyone, welcome to the Friday update.

Today we'll be talking mini-update again. With the public release happening next week, I'll soon be able to start making changes to the game file itself, but as you can see, I've been busy with plenty of other things while we wait for that. The school hall map I revealed last week is being put to good use for a new scene Full School Assembly.

The promo image up top there is from it, and features our first tantalising glimpse of Miss Whorle. Only from the back though. Yeah, I know, I'm a tease. I'm still in two minds about whether to show her to you at all before release, as I feel like slowrolling her as much as I have has built up her mystique and we can keep that going a little longer. Either way, there she is stood before the entire school, all obediently and silently sat cross-legged. Take a moment to marvel at what a technical achievement that image is too. There's over 100 women in it, all fully 3D rendered. It tested render beast to its absolute limits, but it did it! I did try to render it in 4k, but I guess I was pushing my luck at that point. It didn't crash, but it wouldn't do it either.

Full School Assembly will fire the starting gun proper on Act Two as well as introduce our erstwhile headmistress who will outline the teacher's response to the misbehaviour of Act One. It's the central scene from the mini-update, though there will be a couple of others to go with it, and will mark the moment that everything changes.

Miss Whorle isn't the only new character model to join our illustrious school in this update, the final member of Missy's class, and the only girl that hasn't had one up until now is Amy. Cute, isn't she? This gorgeous redhead won't be getting any particular content in this update, I just needed to round off all of the remaining character models for the first year class, but expect her to be popping up here and there now that she's with us.

Have a great weekend!

Trinian