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1.11 Week 6 report

Happy Valentine’s Day chooms! This week our lovely artist Victoria started work on the wardrobe for the next release.


Her reaction when she saw the storyboard

I was hoping to complete the entire university section by Feb 28, but Victoria gave me a reality check this week: there’s no way we’ll have the entire storyboard written, coded and illustrated in the next two weeks. There’s just too much content.

MFAGA has taught me that it’s better to reduce scope instead of push back deadlines* – so the next release will now cover part of university, not the whole experience. 

This is disappointing to me, because I just want to keep pushing ahead fast…but we can’t go faster than possible.  😔  I know that lots of you guys will be disappointed to hear that uni is being broken into two releases, so I wanted to tell you right away.


University progress
V made a great start on the artwork, which is shaping up nicely.

In terms of story, we’re introducing two new optional sexual partners for your heroine in the next release. These are different from the 1.6 partners, because you’re able to have sex with them more than once (i.e. if you keep the relationship going they’ll pop up later in your university career). The aim is to give the heroine a backstory that feels like it has some real relationships in it, not just a series of sex scenes.

Overall I’m excited with the way university is turning out. It feels like it develops naturally from the gap year, giving the heroine the chance to become more mature and independent before she begins her intelligence career.


Other progress
We’ve also been working on some other improvements:

Okay, that’s all for this week! I feel like there are a lot of different things in the air at the moment, and we’ll pull them together over the next fortnight. Take care guys, see you with an update next week!

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* But we couldn’t do this in January, since it’s not possible to release only some of the facial expressions. That was an all-or-nothing kind of deal.  We'll roll them into the next release

1.11 Week 6 report

Comments

I love everything about this game except that its not complete already! One thing that might improve the feel of the game is to give the character a way to influence the dice rolls. Fate points to spend on altering dice rolls could give players more agency.

Andy Bright

Release early; release often. This is the way-hey! Get that feedback and praise/validation for your team's work. All sounding greta. Ship it like a 60ft racing yacht!

0.5joker

I think this might be my favourite update lol, because it means you're at least slightly ahead story-wise. I hope this means that as you progress you're getting a more solidified idea of where you want to guide the story... More power to ya :3 I await the next release xD

althea124

Girl red is fire on 😍😍😍 also happy Valentine’s Day ❤️❤️❤️

😍😍😍

As much as i prefer big content drops, i think this is the best way to go about it as you will be showing consistant progress.

Can't wait till next update

Michel

Nice😍


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