0.6 Development Update 53

Hey, folks!

First, I think the artbook situation is fully resolved by now. I heard back from the Patreon, and they offered me a somewhat workable solution. I already compiled a list of recipients by other means by that time, and I think there might be some people who received the book even if they shouldn't have. Oh well, if you're ond of the lucky few, enjoy it. If you should have got the artbook and still didn't, then please get in touch.

v0.6.15 is now fully released and in Early Access. And it's, uh, up to r3 now. Too many little bugs in there, sorry about that. The tech part of the update seems to have landed smoothly, and I'm very happy about it. On the story side, we couldn't get the fourth of Cait's events done in time, so it will be landing in the next build. But we remastered Naomi's cowgirl animations, and Lyriel finally lets you bed her after she's done with the dishes (but don't even think about doing it out in the open!). All in all, a solid update, methinks.

For the next update, we'll be finishing the fourth of Cait's events, adding the new Lost and Found four-part event, showing Yona some love, and adding new hang out activities for Lyriel and Blair. The Alpha is planned for July 31st, but it might move a day or two forward. In any case, it's going to be fun when it comes out!

The update after that is going to push the main story forward and after that we'll do more personal stories. And do expect those stories to become more and more meshed with the main story. We're going to do our best to keep the original promise of "can just ignore any number of personal stories", but there might be some continuity conflicts if you decide to ignore everyone's story until the very end of the main story. But however you want to go about it, there is some exciting stuff ahead.

Behind the stage we're still improving our workflow and cautiously expanding our team. There's a lot of stuff, big and small, coming in the months ahead. I prefer not to talk about it too much because of the constantly shifting timeframes, and I really don't want to become one of the hype men who constantly overpromise. But hey, if you want me to, let me know, and I'll start promising you fully realised Unreal Engine 5-powered realtime life sims with AI-backed independent actresses who will behave just like real fantasy waifus.

Ahem, anyway, I'll probably be able to finally share some previews and details about one of our skunkworks' projects in the next dev update. It's long overdue.

As a little bonus for those of you who actually read the dev update,you can get all the vids from Rae Twitter Strip game here - https://rift.ink/3rMH8v5

And if you care to follow Lyriel's first audition, do check out the series here - https://rift.ink/470L7V3 She already took off her top and shorts, and the next part of the interview is coming later today. 👀

See you soon!