Weekly progress report #130

Summer is all about wearing as little as possible, right? By the way, do you know how to make Blake fall in love with you? Give him flowers. No one ever gives Blake flowers. A dozen of red roses, and you'll find the shortest way under his skirt!

Hello! Time for the new progress report. I hope, you've been enjoying the new demo so far. I, on the other hand, have been trying to enjoy some rest, but there's still a lot to do. I will start working on the public version tomorrow, and this will take some time, so I probably won't be able to finish anything playable this month. But I do hope to pack v0.17 in just two demos this time, so we'll be back on our normal schedule. Hopefully. As for the release itself, I did promise you some numbers, so here they are: the entire third demo is 87k words, and 321 full renders, which means that full v0.16 is  281k words long, and has 1063 images. Pretty good right? I can only imagine how many typos are in there.

As for the nearest future, you will get three new polls next week, and possibly a new picture set, though this one might have to wait until next Monday. It's a bit hard for me to plan the polls right now because I don't know how many of you have played through the demo (or demos), and this saw the new characters, and know who's in Deliverance already, so here's a little spoiler which will tell you who's where.

So. At the start of v0.17 no matter what route you're playing Blake, Melinda, Suya, Rebecca, Liam, Samuel, Vanessa, Iris, Quinn, Lucia, Dominique, and Nariko are in Deliverance already, and are available for their new scenes. Pepper is also there, but Blake can skip her event without ever learning that she's already in the city. There are also new characters: WIll, Uma, Tyler (all three from the same family), Earl, and Monica, and the latter two are optional (for now), which means that Blake might not know them. Felix, Gillian, Josiah, Jasmine and Bree will arrive later, with Felix being the first, and Bree being the last. There will also be a bunch of new character at Blake's future jobs, but they're not important for now (though, I do mention some of them in v0.16, such as office's boss Conrad or his assistant Hannah). This is our pool of characters for now. As for Trish, she'll be available for phone calls, same for her husband, but the rest are gone from the game… which a small chance of coming back at the end. No matter what, they will be included in the endings, though, so you'll get to know what happened to Kira after the story is finished.

So, that's about it. Thank you for your time, thank you for playing, and have a nice day!