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Progress Report

Hello there!

It's been another productive week with Long Live the Princess. I'm fully taking advantage of the fact that I'm not working on any significant new features right now. As a result, I'm handling many minor things that have cropped up over time instead. After this update, I suspect I won't have the chance to work on these minor features again for some time. 

I have finished the first Belle scene that I mentioned last week. It's looking a lot better now that it's full...

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Work continues on version 0.35 of Long Live the Princess, but that hasn't stopped me from looking ahead. After working on the endgame for so long, it feels quite unusual not to know exactly what I will be working on from one update to the other. To leverage this freedom, I decided to run a poll for Wizard and Grandmaster tier backers. I asked them what they wanted me to focus on for version 0.36 out of 5 options (Callie, the Fairy Queen, Sister Agnes, Perversity 6, and Nell).

The winner...

Progress Report

Hi everyone!

This is such a fun update for me to work on after the endgame's slow, punishing development. I feel like I'm adding new features at a pace I haven't seen in a long time.

This week, I finished work on the masturbation scene at the beginning of the game. That scene always stuck out as a little weird. Since I would have to revisit it anyway because of its limited "animation," I decided to completely revamp it. This scene will now be more interesting to watch, and it will...

Progress Report

Greetings, everyone!

I hope you all enjoyed playing the latest release of the game. As for myself, I'm incredibly pleased to have finally put the endgame behind me. This was always going to be a challenging, slow crawl to the finish, and as you were probably able to tell, that was precisely what happened. But we're done with it now, allowing us to move on.

As promised before, the focus for version 0.35 will be to set up the basic implementation of New Game Plus (NG+). Before anyon...

Version 0.34.0 - Public Release Schedule

If you're just visiting my Patreon or are a $1 patron, this post is for you.

Version 0.34.0 has now been released for patrons at the $5 level and up. Because Long Live the Princess has moved away from a monthly schedule, this version will become publicly available once version 0.35.0 is out for patrons. Basically, the public version will always be one step behind the patron-only version.

Changelog 0.34.0 - Endgame Part 4 - Epilogue:

• The epilogue has be...
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Long Live the Princess - Version 0.34.0 - Endgame Part 4 - Epilogue

Long Live the Princess version 0.34.0 is now available for download.

The main storyline is finally over. The epilogue is complete, and by the time you have finished this update, you will have seen the credits roll, at last. 

But don't worry, there is still a lot to do. The game is far from finished yet, so stay tuned for future updates to fill out all the content that is not essential to the story. I might also expand upon some of these epilogues, depending on feedback. Remem...

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Happy weekend!

I have been working my ass off this week, trying to get version 0.34 ready before the end of the month. Things are looking promising indeed.

Today, I played the story to its end, including both credits and the post-credits sequence. The epilogues are complete at last, and they feel great in action. At least that's what I think. The jury's out on what the rest of you will feel about it.

With the writing and renders done, all that remains is wrapping everything ...

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We're halfway through January. Time keeps flying, apparently.

I'm still spending all my development time making the epilogue images for Long Live the Princess. There are quite a few of them now, and the number keeps growing. 

As of right now, I have finished posing and rendering the epilogue images for Primrose, Nell, Evelyn, the Fairy Queen, Samarra, Erato, Belle, and Callie. As I write this, I'm rendering images for the harem ending, which are incidentally the most demandin...

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Work continues on version 0.34. The biggest remaining challenge is and will continue to be the epilogue images. I'm still working on those. Sometimes, they turn out exactly the way I imagined them in my head. Other times, I have to compromise for one reason or another. Maybe a camera angle didn't work, or maybe the asset I was expecting to use doesn't exist or just isn't good enough. 

For example, I needed a graveyard for one of the epilogue scenes I had in mind. However, no gravey...

Progress Report

Would you look at that? It's a brand new year! It'd better be an improvement over 2020.

I'm happy to report that the big scene I was working on is complete and playtested. This removes a massive obstacle from 0.34's path and lets me move directly into the epilogues. I have looked forward to this for quite some time, and it's a significant change of pace from my earlier work with LLtP.

Basically, the epilogues are a collection of images and accompanying text that illustrates what h...

Progress Report

It's Christmas time, which means that things are slowing down a little on the development front. However, before that happened, I made tremendous progress with 0.34, finishing all the animation renders and both writing and implementing considerable amounts of story. This update's big choice is now entirely written and implemented. I'm really looking forward to hearing what everyone ends up picking among the numerous options. I don't think there are going to be any easy answers here.

The...

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Now we're talking! I have been hard at work, setting up the previously mentioned sex scene for the new update. It is now at the stage where my computer is churning out animations rapidly. I only have one animation left to pose before I'm done rendering this scene entirely. At that point, I'm going to write, implement, and playtest it. 

I'm using everything I have learned about animation when posing this scene. I have come a long way since the early 2-3 frame animations at the begin...

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These weeks go by faster and faster, I swear. 

Since last week, I've been focusing all my attention on the big payoff scene at the very end of the main story. It's not a scene that all of you will end up getting, but it needs to be there. It's already looking excellent, and I'm about to set up the first animations for it. This will be the first big rendering test for my new RTX 3090, but from what I've seen, it should do admirably.

I'm well aware that the sex scene with Selen...

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Ah, yes. Progress. I've made some of that.

The current status is that the opening scene of 0.34, featuring the Fairy Queen, is completed and fully playable in the game. I hope to once again surprise players in various ways with how that encounter turns out.

I'm now moving onto the second scene, which is the biggest single scene I'll make for this update. I have started posing, but not rendering, the required images, of which there will be a lot. 

It's refreshing to work...

Progress Report

Ah, the first week after a major release. There's rarely much actual development going on during that week as most of the beginning is spent on community management, plus taking a breather. I actually was lucky enough to get myself a Playstation 5 at the beginning of the week, so I have been spending a little time with that. It can be beneficial to get my mind away from my two jobs once in a while.

Anyway, just to make sure everyone is up to speed: Version 0.34 will be the entirety of t...

Long Live the Princess - Version 0.33.0 - Endgame Part 3

Long Live the Princess version 0.33.0 is now available for download.

The hour has finally arrived, and your ultimate confrontation with Selena is upon you. The stakes are enormous, and you have no real plan of action. How could you possibly prevail under such circumstances?

As you know, this update took a while to create, but it's done now. Version 0.33 covers all of the main storyline's climax and resolves most of the remaining plot points. A word of warning, however: This update...

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Finally! I have finally reached the end of the story for version 0.33, which means all that's left is wrapping up. Well, there's more to it than that. The things that remain to do at this stage are:

• Adjust transitions and music triggers.
• Playtest.
• Adjust dialogue based on playtesting results.
• Fix bugs.
• Fix reported bugs and issues from 0.32.
• Proofread.

All in all, though, these are the easiest part of any update. Believe me,...

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It's close!

I'm really close to wrapping up this update's main path now, having almost finished the puzzle that it ends on. I think I'm going to have to make the update end abruptly so that I can get this in your hands sooner rather than later, but that should be fine. You'll get everything I had planned for 0.33 anyway, and then some. 0.34 will take care of wrapping up the remaining plot points and should be much easier for me to develop and write, too. 

I have to admit that...

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I'll keep it quick this time. There's not much new to say compared to last week as I'm still working on the same scene. I believe I may have finished all the renders needed for 0.33, so that's another checkbox to tick. Almost all of the exposition has been written, and most of the bad ends implemented. That leaves only the big puzzle for me to implement. 

I'm trying to get this thing out ASAP. For all the frustration you guys might have with how long it's taken for 0.33 to come out...

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Hi everyone!

The development of version 0.33 is progressing rapidly. I really seem to have gotten out of a rut after reworking Evelyn's story, so I feel like there's the wind in my sails right now. Probably not enough to get this done before the end of the month, but there's always a chance.

The main obstacle left to me is writing a bunch of exposition and writing the big puzzle for this update. I also need to finish a small handful of additional renders, but there are very few of...

Progress Report

(Sorry if you got an empty progress report earlier. Patreon's interface messed up and made me click the Post button by accident.)

Greetings, everyone!

It's only been a few days since I got the updated 0.32 out, so I haven't been able to put a lot of days into working on 0.33 yet. Having said that, I have used the time available effectively. 

First up was posing, rendering, and implementing the missing images from the early parts of the update. With these in place, a sig...

Long Live the Princess is again available to download

Hi everyone!

The reworked Evelyn story is finally done! To celebrate this, I have made version 0.32 available to everyone, whether or not you are a patron. I did this mostly because it would have been a nightmare to update her story in both 0.31 and 0.32 at the same time. This was the path of least resistance by far.

I had to go through more than 15000 lines of code to change Evelyn's story, but the changes might be smaller than you think. She is no longer related to the main char...

Progress Report

Hi everyone!

I've been working on the Evelyn redesign for slightly more than a week now, and I'm happy to report that I'm nearing the end of it. I finished the most significant challenge, her dark secret, yesterday. I'm almost at the end of her script. Once that is done, I will do a quick pass across the entirety of the game's script to deal with small bits of stray dialogue that refers to her old story. 

When all the rewrites are complete, I will do a test run through the ga...

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Well, this week's progress report is going to be a little different, isn't it? Instead of working towards 0.33's completion, I've been reworking 0.32 according to what I described in my other posts earlier this week. If you missed that announcement, I'd suggest going back and reading it. It's important.

I'm happy to report that progress is going very well with the replacement content. I have updated the entire tutorial and gone through almost half of Evelyn's script file so far. The cha...

Important Update (please read this!)

Hi everyone!

Please read the entirety of this post before you comment below. 

I have some bad news to share. Yesterday, I was contacted by the Patreon Trust & Safety team. They had become aware that Long Live the Princess features content that is not allowed as per their Community Guidelines. While they were kind enough to simply email me about it without suspending my account or closing the game's Patreon page, the message was clear: Remove the offending content or get s...

Progress Report

What the...? Where do the weeks go? I'm tempted to ask for my money back. 

Anyway, it's another progress report, so let's get to it. Writing continues, and I feel like I might have crossed a milestone here. The words are flowing smoother, and the atmosphere and theme are becoming more secure and solidly defined. I have finished the opening section to the central scene in this update, which was always the trickiest part. There is one more significant river to cross, but that one is ...

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So, I've been writing for the past week. Exciting stuff, I know. I wish I could tell you what I've been writing for the game, but you know... I'd have to kill you. 

Honestly, though, this game's writing process has rarely felt as much like wading through a quagmire than it does right now. It's a combination of the dramatic subject matter and the weight of all the story leading to this point that does me in, I think. Whenever I sit down and write, it drains me very quickly. As a res...

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Things are starting to look promising. The 0.33 image folder contains 181 images right now. That's not counting the 91 renders I did for the animation I've spoken about before. In fact, I realized this week that I'm getting close to finalizing the images needed for the story content in this version. 

That's why I decided to start writing and coding it, at last. Writing those first words always fills me with trepidation, and this time is no different. There is a lot at stake here, b...

Progress Report

As the week wraps up, it's time for another progress report. 

My focus is still on renders. I should really try not to say anything about exactly what I'm making, but I can't wait until you see [REDACTED] and how it all fits into [REDACTED] alongside [REDACTED]'s [REDACTED]. It's going to be [REDACTED]! 

As you can tell, it can be quite challenging to share anything about plot developments that I'd rather keep secret until you see them for yourselves. Suffice to say, I'm...

Progress Report

This week I have focused my attention on rendering new images for a change of pace. With all the story design I did up to this point, I needed to keep things fresh. The rendering has gone very well. At the time of writing, I have 86 brand new images for this update (if you include a remade earlier scene, I'm up to 138 images), including the entirety of a new, animated sex scene. 

Speaking of animations, I'm fiddling with an experimental animation for a critical story event in 0.33....