Weekly progress report #40

A parallel reality Blake, where she is a lot like Kushari: pumps iron and bitches.

Hello! Time for the last progress report before the release of second demo. You know the drill: it's going up on 1st or 2nd of October, depending on how fast am I going to create the builds. It takes time, especially since from now on I'll be making two types of builds. You see, the game is big already. After the second demo it's going to be well above 5 Gb. Soon you won't be able to download it from Mega in one piece (I  think it has a 6 Gb limit per day, if I'm not mistaken). So, starting with this demo, you'll be getting a non-archived version of the game. What's the difference? Well, I can't patch the archives. RenPy's structure does not allow that. But I can just stop encrypting the files, and release patches that you could put in the game folder and start playing without the need to re-download everything again. These patches are going to be big as well, so… You know. But still. It's just more convenient. But, of course, if you don't have any versions of the game saved on your system, you'll be able to get its entirety.

Now that this is out of the way, let's talk about the demo. It's close to completion, of course. But not as close as I planned. Iris's makeup scene is pushed forward… again. Sorry! I just can't find the place in current four days I planned to make, since they're very tightly packaged. But at least you're getting her sex scene, and another casual one. That's something, I think.

As for the size… It's about 80000 words long (should be), and 140 renders strong. Maybe I'll add 3–5 more, that depends. It turned out not that bigger than the previous ones, but I didn't expect Kushari/Troy and Taeng/Reese scenes to give me so. much. shit. Seriously. I wasted three days on each, it's unacceptable. But it's all in the past. But I have to apologise again, I wanted to make this demo as sex-heavy as possible, but this damn huge party scene ruined everything. It's not exactly enormous, more like it has 5–6 options for each of its parts, and it takes a lot of time to make sure it works as intended. Still, you're not getting less content with this one, trust me.

I'm also slowly remaking the old scenes and sprites (from v0.1), but these have to wait until the full release. I'm not gonna change half of the renders and leave the rest waiting, and right now I'm too busy with the actual content, and not the old one. But it's coming! Our earliest chapter is going to look good… ish. Better.

Well, that's about it. New polls are coming next week (and, of course, the demo), so — stay tuned, and thank you very much for your time, and support. Have a nice day!