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Public Release of Chapter 5: Family

Hello everyone

We have made it this far, the public release of the Chapter 5. Now the rest of the world can get their hands on the half way point in Himeros Haven.

I will be keeping an eye on feedback on the Sharks Lagoon forum as well as here over the coming weeks, in case you should find something the Patreon testers did not.

I hope you enjoy the content and let me know what you think.

Have a lovely month of May

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DevelUpdate #035 - Tease Please!

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I continue to be ahead of the current months release schedule. If I finish early I will be spending some time working on some of the more time consuming issues in the upcoming chapters and hopefully even things out a bit. Since I am ahead, I can at this point make another tease post about the upcoming Chapter 6.

At this point in Himeros Hotel I was starting to get a bit giddy as I could smell the ending. The sense that things are starting to come together is lovely and I have t...

DevelUpdate #034 - Grindy?

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This could have been a design diary, but since it should be public knowledge I am mixing it in the the update.

I got some well worded feedback about the gameplay of the first half of Himeros Haven and it did confirm a fear I had as we moved through the chapters. When playing the standalone chapters the grind might not feel as bad since you have a couple of tasks pr. chapter. When playing everything in one go, it could flow together and seem a bit grindy. 

I have adde...

DevelUpdate #033 - Overtime

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I have been a bit too busy at work this month and am currently working hard at getting everything into the 5.5 release. As most half chapters this is going to be a setup and a tease for what is to come in Chapter 6. 

There was some room in this release for Patreon reward content. The first Scene Stealer reward will be going in along with the Vision Vote result events. It is going to be interesing and different.

Since I am slightly behind, I might have to push testing...

Public Release of Chapter 4: Enemy

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Chapter 5 is out and about for some of the patrons and the next step is to release the last chapter for the public. I will post it here and at Shark's Lagoon as is the custom. There have been some changes since Chapter 4 was released to the patrons and there might be older bugs that I have not corrected in this release, so feel free to let me know if you have any issues.

I hope you enjoy this chapter and if you have any feedback please let me know. The next public release...

DevelUpdate #032 - Fever Dreams

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I will be covering a couple of different subjects this time around. 

As mentioned in the predictions last time, I did have an idea that has been added to the next release.  A set of oneshot "tasks" that have a lot more description text and require more time investment from the player. This did add a slight delay, but wasn't a big issue overall, until I got hit by a throat infection this Saturday. I have been hovering around 38,5 c (101.3 f) for the last couple of days...

Design Diary #012 - What is in a name?

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This has been a long time coming and since this is an somewhat important post, this Design Diary is open to everyone. Since the end of Himeros Hotel, I decided to use Himeros Trilogy to link the games in name, since the real title of the game would be a spoiler of sorts.

Time for a change. Starting with Chapter 5 the splash title of Game 2 will be the one shown above (Work in progress). 

Himeros Haven will be the spoiler free title and allow me to shorthand Game...

DevelUpdate #031 - Pressure Release Tease

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Having survived the last two stressful months and releases, it is once again time to look upon what is to come.  February might be the shortest month, but at least I am on top of what is to be done.

I did a little tease update a month ago and this time I will try my hand at a little clairvoyance.

1 minute from now I will reveal the name of the next chapter. 1 day from now some new locations will emerge in the game. 3 days from now I will watch a sports event and chee...

Future Files 2.a: Sunny Side Up

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Time for another preview of what might be in our future. This time it is a beach shot of a lovely lass enjoying some rays of sun.

The image is cropped because the head is still a work in progress. There will be another image released later with less of that pesky bikini.

I will also use this little tease to talk about Chapter 4.5 progress. I am currently at 20 events and I will get close to the 25 target, but testing might be slightly delayed compared to earlier months. T...

Development Issue: Math is Hard

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Sorry for the spam, but I have hit some issues with Chapter 4.5 and wanted to give fair warning about the possible smaller release next month.

The chapter contains a lot of system changes and I thought I could overpower them and move on to implementing the new content. Earlier this week I was maybe 2-3 events behind schedule and getting close to finishing the system shuffle. That was until I found a logic issue with the master plan for the entire game. 

I had made a ...

DevelUpdate #030 - Battle of Midway

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I have just finished the first 20% of Chapter 4.5 and this combined with the ending of Chapter 4 marks the halfway point of Game 2 in terms of story and is a bit different in terms of structure. 

I am still very much learning how to write a story of this scope and not to mention working on improving the content, so there are less mistakes and fewer bugs. It does feel good to be halfway not only in Game 2, but also in the trilogy as a whole, at least from a story perspectiv...