Dev Log 29/08/2022 - Crimson High v0.16

Buon giorno!

How's everyone doing? Good? That's great!
I hope all of y'all did enjoy the last update and are looking forward to the next one. It's going to be very exciting!

The next update will bring some new stuff on top of very exciting content:
One thing you may be happy to hear about is the addition of an (optional) hint system to find those pesky little rodents from space. When enabled it'll show a notification in the top left corner of the screen whenever a hamster is currently visible on screen. No more scanning every single render, yay!

I'm also currently in the process of refactoring the code to make it cleaner and provide for a better (and more efficient) workflow going forward. This means less time spent on unnecessarily tedious clerical work and more time spent on creating actual content! Sounds great, doesn't it?
Yeah.. it does come with a small caveat, though. You'll very likely have to restart the game.
I do, however, intend to look into a way to make it possible to skip to the current point in the story, while also giving you a chance to customize your new save game with all the decisions you made.

Part of this revamped (lel) code is a split between main- and side girls in the profile screen of the in-game phone. This is both for neatness and to make it more clear which of the girls belongs to which category.
There are currently 13 main girls and 12 side girls in the game.
Surprised? Yeah, me too.
With this you should be able to better gauge how much content to expect for which of the girls. Obviously there will be a bigger focus on the 13 main girls than on everyone else. Side girls will get their fair share of your (and my) time too, though, so don't worry.

Aside from that most other things are more of the behind-the-scenes variety and will help me out in creating more content more easily like mentioned before. Some of them will also appease my OCD and minimize potential distractions through irritation.

Those changes will take me probably another 1-2 workdays to finalize, after which I then will start the writing for v0.16.
Right now it's hard to tell when I'll be able to release the next update, but I assume it'll take about 2-3 weeks from here on out. No major delay or anything, don't you worry.

That's pretty much all I have to say for now. I'll start posting regular progress reports over on Discord as usual, once there is something to report about, and make another Dev Log on here in a week or two, once I know more about a possible release date.

So long, my dear friends. Stay cool and maybe think about not licking metal posts anymore once winter comes around. If you do, that is. Which would be perfectly fine. No judgement here.

Thanks for being awesome and the best supporters one can wish for!

Love y'all, guys and gals!

Cheers!

Edit: Updated side girl number to account for custom Progenitor tier characters