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Haruki or Jun for next update?

Good evening,

I'm going to drop a question really quick just so I can get started on the next update. As it stands, Jun is the normal choice for the next update since he has gone the longest without being updated. 

However, Haruki's route is still playing catch up as it is so new it has little content/is very far behind others even with it being supposed to be a shorter route. Because of that, I'm unsure which one should go next.

Because of that, I'll leave it up to you...

Update 0.66 - Keisuke

Good afternoon,

I'm here to bring you guys this new Keisuke update, also with the addition of the Shoichi sprite that everyone's been waiting for. Because a lot of things got added in this update, there might be a few issues here and there as I wasn't able to scrub the entire game looking for any potential sprite mismatches or incongruencies, but I did do my best to minimize problems.

Not only that, this update does bring Keisuke's next H-scene with variations depending on which r...

Can I publicly release the Shoichi update early?

Hey, everyone,

Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season. I'll make this post really short.

I realized that, because I released the Shoichi update to you all on the 11th, I would have to be releasing it for non-patrons on Christmas day. However, I won't be in town starting (likely) tomorrow. So I wanted to ask you all if it would be okay with you guys for me to release it publicly three days early. Otherwise I will have to release it only after New Years.

I know it'...

Update 0.65 - Shoichi

Good evening, everyone,

I hope you've all been well. I've fully recovered from COVID (if you haven't kept up with the development updates on Twitter, I got COVID right after my college entrance exam) and finally managed to finish the Shoichi update. It was a meaty one as a lot of plot threads needed to be addressed from across all the possible variants of his route, so there are different ways the update can go based on which path (A/B/C) you are on as well as one other choice that also...

Should the new Shoichi sprite be added in early?

Hello everyone,

Hopefully you guys have been keeping up with the Tennis Ace twitter where I've been posting status updates on occasion (as it is much easier to post status updates there due to the Patreon app not working well on mobile and the website forcing me to relog in and go through 2FA authentication every time I make a post).

As mentioned on Twitter, the Shoichi update is near to being done. However, as Nyaruh has finished the majority of the work on Shoichi's sprite (his ...

Update 0.64 - Haruki

Good evening,

I hope you all are well. I've had a few complications for the past couple months. As I said on my Twitter a few times, my grandmother's health suddenly took a nosedive and she was put into end of life care within the week. After that, I was focused on trying to stay in the loop while my aunt and cousin travelled to take care of her along with my siblings. I was looking at tickets to her city when I got the news she passed the day after my birthday. From there on, I stayed ...

Update 0.63 - Jun

Good evening, everyone,

I have finally managed to finish this update. Not only did it end up being massive, but I also updated a lot of stuff in the base level code of Tennis Ace in the meantime.

To begin with, TA has been updated to the latest version of Ren'py as of the posting of this (8.1). This provides not only compatibility with more modern versions of Python, but also fixes a few issues the game was having where Ren'py would automatically delete new variables when loading ...

Pre-release 0.63 (Jun)

Good evening, everyone,

For those who follow the project's twitter account, you might have seen me mention it a few hours ago. I've been updating a lot of TA code over the past few months and, to get rid of the one bug that would cause the game to crash whenever a user loaded an old save, rolled back a line of dialogue and then kept reading (it would cause Ren'py to delete default variables that were recently added), I updated to the latest version of Ren'py. Doing that however caused s...

Update 0.62 - Shoichi and Keisuke

Hello everyone,

I'm here to bring you all the Sho/Kei update. Since both characters would be tackling the final day of the Regionals competition arc, I decided to roll them all into one. After all, there is a fair amount of overlap, and rolling it as two separate updates would feel cheap.

The updates themselves ended up being pretty sizable, with quite a bit of content for those of you who do enjoy the tennis matches. I'm also going to post a few teasers of Shoichi's next adult CG...

Update 0.61 - Jun

Hey everyone,

I have Jun's update here for you guys. Ended up struggling a lot more than I'd like with this one thanks to insisting on using NVL mode (which is borderline broken on Ren'py) as well as having a lot of systems breaking in general. The amount of time I spent on bugfixing was insane. It took me over two weeks just to get the NVL segment to work right.

Changelog:

• Days 34 and 35 for Jun
• The Haruki CG from the previous update has been finished
2023-01-26 00:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 0.60 - Haruki

Good evening, everyone!

I know I'm later than I initially said I would be, but there's actually a good reason for that. As I was finishing up Haruki's update for release (i.e. replaying it to check for bugs and typos), I found the end of it... incredibly underwhelming. I was initially only going to add days 13 and 14 to this update. However, because day 14 felt like such a bad stopping point, I kept going and added day 15 as well. I didn't think day 15 would end up being quite ...

Release date for next update (and a CG WIP)

Hey there, everyone,

I know you guys would rather I already come out with the new update here and now, but it'll take me about five to seven days to finish it for a few reasons.

First of all, since the Haruki update was released on the 7th of October, I haven't yet had a full month to work on the next update. However, even that wouldn't have been much of a problem. I actually could have maybe squeezed it in time. The actual problem was... I couldn't decide on who to update next! 2022-11-01 07:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 0.59 - Intro to Haruki

Hello, everyone!

Hope you guys have been doing okay. I'm coming here (a lot earlier than expected) to drop something I know lots of you have been dearly looking forward to for a while now.

Like I said a few times before, I'd been working behind the scenes on the plans for Haruki's route to be able to condense and streamline it as much as possible (after all, it's supposed to be a smaller route than the three main ones). I already had the script for his Character Select events most...

Update 0.58 - Keisuke

Hello, everyone!

As I mentioned in my last status update, I'm sorry for the delay in posting this update. Not only did it end up being a much larger update than I expected (bigger than the last Shoichi update despite the fact that Shoichi's was big due to the branching paths. I had a friend playtest it while streaming to me and despite him reading so fast I couldn't even keep up with...

Status update on the next build

Hello everyone, how are you guys?

Sorry for the delay in getting a status update to you guys. I get so focused on working that it still slips my mind to let you guys know what's going on due to it. But I did promise to be better with keeping you guys posted, so I'm here a little late to give you a status update.

The next update is coming along okay. It did get delayed more than I'd like sadly due to college + the background work required to kickstart Haruki's route.

On the c...

Update 0.57 - Shoichi (Crash Fix)

Hello, everyone,

I finally managed to get this update to work. I underestimated how much trouble it would be to try and include the profile screen into the game. It ended up majorly breaking the game and took me weeks to fix. First the game would fail to launch. Then it would launch, but trying to open the profile screen would cause it to crash. Then the profile screen would open, but would cause all text to become garbled upon closing it. Then the profile screen would have garbled text...

Delay Notice

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let you guys know real quick that I'm not gonna make it in time for this update. Programming the character profile screen and the new naming screen for Yuuichi at the start of the game took way more time than I thought. Making the main system itself work wasn't that much of a hassle, but getting it to play nice with old saves has been a bit of a challenge. As a result, I didn't get a satisfactory amount of writing done.

I've pivoted to focusing on the ...

Update 0.56 - Jun

Hello, everyone,

So... I finally managed to clear this update.

As I'd mentioned in the last status update, there was an issue with the payment processor and the payment being received by my bank in Brazil. To make a very long, very emotionally draining situation short, that whole mess took... much longer to solve than I imagined. I was asked for over a dozen documents, some of which needed to be acquired through an accountant. All of which took a few days to get. Then, once all do...

Status update and CG poll

Hey there, everyone,

As the name suggests, I'm here to both keep you guys updated on the current Jun update as well as to give you the option to pick which one you think is best for the next series of CGs.

Due to an issue with the payment processor, my payment for this month was held back by a bank in Brazil and still hasn't been cleared. Because of that, I've been rushing to get all the documents they needed as well as selling some personal effects of mine to be able to cover ren...

Timeline for the next TA update

Heyo, everyone,

I'm just dropping by to let you guys know the plans for the next update. After having released three updates all at once, I planned to try and push out one more update by the end of the month, which was going to be a Jun update. 

However, a few days ago, Nyaruh messaged me and asked for a few more days to finish the art for this update. Because of that, and since I need the art before I can push out that update, I also took the opportunity to go a bit slower a...

Pinups

Hey everyone,

As an extra treat, I've been having the great @briarsthorne work on a few underwear pinups for Tennis Ace every few months for a while now. Long enough to have five of them done. I'm making them available to all of you. I initially planned to make them only for $5 tier and above, but after the wait on the last few updates, it didn't feel right.

Either way, I love these a whole bunch and I hope y...

Hotfix for Update 0.55

Hey there, everyone,

I'm posting here new files for the 0.55 update. They fix a few of the bugs people have reported over the past few days since the initial release:

• BGM not properly fading out at the end of Keisuke's day 34
• MC's portrait not showing up properly in some scenes
• One of Alexander's lines being attributed to Aki on Keisuke's day 34
• A myriad of typos reported
• Fixes the inverted flags for the match with Yuuya. The variable was ...
  2022-04-21 02:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 0.55 - Jun, Shoichi and Keisuke

Hello, everyone,

Well, I figured that I wouldn't be able to set things right until I got as many updates out as possible. So I've been working to try and get an entire update cycle out at once. I'm sorry for the delay. I don't have much left to say since I'm so tired right now.

Hopefully you guys like the updates. I made sure that none of them would be short (I don't want to shorten updates just because I'm crunched for time), so they're three updates of regular length all at once...

Art pack (3 images)

As I mentioned in the post about the latest update just a few minutes ago: I haven't been able to get to writing the short stories I intend to write to accompany these pieces. At the same time, with how many delays I've had, it would be disingenuous of me to plan to charge for these. It's not a good apology, and things won't truly be evened out until I post the delayed updates I'm working on, but in the meantime, I am posting these three images for free.

I will post their short stories ...

Update 0.54 - Keisuke

Hello, everyone,

First of all, to address the obvious: I am massively late on my updates. This Keisuke update had me with the worst writer's block I've ever had to deal with it. I kept staring at my screen for hours only to write a couple of lines during what kept feeling like an eternity. At a certain point, after I realized just how late I was, I started working on Jun's and Shoichi's updates on the side, trying to progress them whenever I wasn't making progress on Keisuke's.

As...

Update 0.53 - Shoichi

Oh my God, it's finally done.

Hey everyone. I know I'm pretty late with this update. I told myself that it wouldn't take too long to add back in the content that was cut out of the previous update, but boy was I wrong.

To put things bluntly, thanks to the content in this update + the content I couldn't write for the previous Shoichi update due to time constraints, this update ended up being pretty much double the size of a regular update. So... yeah, this is kind of two months wor...

Delay Notice

Hey, everyone,

Trying to get this Shoichi update over and done with, but I'm still a ways off. Doesn't help that I'm also trying to add in some content I had to cut from the previous Shoichi update for lack of time, so the workload is a bit bigger. It'll be a few days before it's ready to be posted (I was working until midnight trying to see if I could beat out the clock, but evidently I couldn't).

Update 0.52 - Jun

Hello there, everyone,

Sorry for the delay. I would have released it about 5 hours late or so, but when I was proofreading, I decided that the point I originally decided the end of the update was too much of a downer. Because of that, I went back and added a couple of extra scenes at the end of the update so it could end on a more hopeful note. Truth be told, I thought I could get this done sooner than I did, which annoys me.

Regardless, I'm pretty happy with this update. I think ...

Update 0.51 - Keisuke (FINALLY)

Hello, everyone,

First of all, I want to apologize for the silence on the issue I was having on my end. I caught myself in a loop of thinking "It'll just take a few more minutes. I'm sure I'll figure out a solution to this problem soon and I'll just post the update instead of posting about why I haven't posted it yet". Except I couldn't figure out the problem. In the end, nothing I did on my end actually fixed the issue I was having. The only solution I had was updating Ren'py itself to...

Delay Notice

Hey there, everyone!

I know, I know. I've unfortunately gotten in the habit of delaying this year thanks to college and my work schedule with TA conflicting a lot.

However, my semester has just ended and I should be free up until the 28th of July (ironic that my classes will start up again at the exact day of my birthday). That's not what this is this time, though. Nyaruh, the artist for Tennis Ace, has been struggling a lot lately with her commission work. She's asked me for an e...