Ch5 devblog 12/22/2024

Another Sunday and we're so close to Christmas!

This week has been huge. I am nearly done with all of Manami's scenes and I didn't pull any punches.

Manami gets 4 additional outfits in total: Bikini, Dress, Halloween outfit, and the drama club 'warrior princess' outfit.

 For Manami's dates there is a large focus on the player encouraging her to talk to strangers to help her overcome her shyness. Manami, being on the serum of course steps up to the challenge. There will be many cameos for Manami and I had a ton of fun writing her dates. It's wild how these are 'missable' scenes considering how long some of them are.

I hope you go through the effort of trying every date with every girl!

Other news: The Music Room!

One requested feature was to have a way to listen to the soundtrack. Gobbo got busy coding and helped deliver a music room! I had fun creating the custom track icons. Each girl has their own track cover.

It is accessible form the main menu, just select ' Jukebox' and you will be able to listen to any track you have heard so far.

I posted a video demo here:

https://youtu.be/iKyqW6Yhy_o

With Manami almost done, I'll be moving on to Naomi. In terms of completion and release, there is still polishing, playtesting and making sure it all works well. I also need to work a bit more on the virgin route (The episode 1 alternate route that gives an alternate way to reach every girl in the game without having to first date Saya, Manami or Yuka).

I'm close but not quite ready yet! Thank you for your patience.

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Finally, I'd like share an anonymous survey regarding FMG visual novels: https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/KEMEcZDq

It's not specifically for the StrongGirls visual novel, the survey was created by Gobbo who is working on his own FMG visual novel. But the survey results may be useful for me or other FMG visual novel creators.