This week's progress report!

First and foremost, I hope this post finds you all well and healthy!

A lot of you have asked me to see the results from the latest poll, here you have them: https://imgur.com/a/M7m4fXq

To be fair, most of this information we were already expecting. What I wasn't expecting however was the Halloween patch to have such few fans. The plan was to show what happened to other party in patch 2 while the first party from the patch 1 was collecting the rubies. Patch 2 would focus more on our future characters (Melissa, Luna, Evelyn, Jazz) and in the third part we'd put them all together and make a closure, but now we're considering trying to wrap it all up in one patch and shorten it to two patches instead of three altogether. We'll see how this goes.

Regarding the progress, most of the mechanic part of this patch is now complete, we just need to code the family route in and then we can start writing up the dialogues, bug hunt, all that "good stuff."

We are also introducing the new map system as well as a few other features we've been meaning to introduce for a while but haven't had the resources for. For now let's focus on the new map system!

The idea was to create a top down map like "Google Earth" from Heaven City and you could pick the place you'd want to go, however, a map is not something that a lot of people can do and those who can't don't make it cheap. So our second idea was to do something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/XlR0pNn.png

It's just a mock-up but you get the idea.

You'd see a little preview of the map you wanted to be transported to and that would be our new system. We created a script for it and everything, it was kinda neat.... until we found a professional team of urban developers who we hired to actually do a professional looking map so YAY! We will finally have our awesome, fully functional map system!

The script is already done so we just need to quickly make a UI system, implement everything, make sure you can only access a few areas depending how far you are in a game (like we've been doing for the last 2~3 patches) and yeah, that should fix most issues.

The goal when you pick an area is to have the map name, a preview image of the place and a small description of the area and the points of interest close to it (so you can easily navigate).

Hentai Scene wise, we've been dropping them like it's hot on Discord so make sure if you want to have a sneak peek of what to expect in 0.99, to go check it out!

The sprite team is almost done with their part as there will be a bunch of new ones this patch, soundtrack team will be done next week and our new website team is making great progress in heavenstudios.org so, very very soon you'll be able to use it as a HUB to find everything Heaven Studios related. Our social medias, our updated walkthroughs, our free DLC's, everything you need will be available there!

We still don't have a release date for the patch. We're trying to do it as fast as humanly possible but since there's so much to wrap up this one might be the biggest patch we'll ever release.

Oof... I think that it's all for new. It's been a very big week. We'll see you guys very soon with more news. 

Thank you guys for your continued support! Stay safe. Much Love!

~ Heaven Studios Team