DevLog: Weekend Edition

Yo,

Soooo, said I would check-in at the end of the weekend to keep people posted on what's going on. I also think it's fair to give an update on the eve of another Patreon billing cycle so you guys know where things are and can adjust your financial support accordingly with your own reactions to things.  So here we go...

CGs

So for whatever reason, I completely forgot to give the number of CGs for this update in the last DevLog, which was a complete oversight. My bad! So it's official, we've broken the record on everything this time. v0.14 was the biggest release before with 220 images it looks like. Right now, in rough draft form, v0.15 is at 231. Not a huge record but expect everything to be bigger this time around. Also going to confirm two text animations in this update similar to what you saw on the teasers. So visually, some new stuff and some more growth from the dev team. (PS: love you guys!!)

Status

So, you'll notice that the CGs are mostly done. I didn't update this to 100% because I haven't been through things yet and may have to do a couple random shots--but hopefully not--i'm tired of sitting in front of that computer. Writing is done, Blayke has reviewed things and done comments and stuff. I'm still going through those. I'm still bug testing at this point then I'll start going through the actual reading of the update to try and polish things. Length of the update crushes the previous ones and will hopefully feel like a double update and worth the extra time it's taken. Also, there's more choices in this update--something that Blayke has been pushing on his end. You'll see this closer to the end of the update, though. Honestly, it may actually provide some replay value for some of you.

Reminder on Pledge Tiers and Notifications

So, another gentle reminder on billing tiers. I posted a teaser pic to the $10 folks earlier today because they don't usually get a lot for chipping in extra and we definitely appreciate their sacrifice around here. For those of you who quickly edited your pledge to see that tier and then quickly bumped it back down again before being billed, just reminding you that I get notifications on those things. I'm not going to mention names but my phone and email both buzz twice every time you do that so it's not sneaky at all. This game will remain donation-based for as long as it allows--hopefully forever! I'm going to humbly ask that you don't cheat the system, this is the hardest we've worked on an update yet and it's sorta disheartening when I have to stop working on the game to acknowledge people taking money out the offering plate. 

The last time this happened, I politely asked people to stop and they actually did. Because they stopped, this increased my budget and I was able to expand the dev team. So just a request because it does impact what we can do over here. 

Release Date

So probably what most of you are wondering is the ETA:  When does v0.15 finally release? At this point, I'm going to commit to a release date of sometime this week. With the CGs done, we still have some polishing and stuff left but I can probably squeeze all that in within a week. I will be sorely disappointed if I don't have it out by April 7, hopefully much sooner but we'll see. The editing is usually what requires the most thought and I can't be over-worked/stressed when doing that step. 

Welp, that's all for now. If you got questions and/or comments, chime in below and let us know what you're thinking. 

Thanks again for all you guys do, your support, the likes, comments, the private messages, and just fucking being amazing people to me and the dev team. Y'all don't know the impact that a like, message, comment, or even a few bucks make to us. 

So thank you from all of us. I can't ever say it enough. 

-Aaryn