Hey everyone,

As I mentioned yesterday wwith last night's upload of 0.4.4, I will lay out what was done in that update. I also want to take a moment to talk about the future roadmap for the game so far as I know it. 

Roadmap : 

With the upload last night of 0.4.4, I'm now officially done with the 0.4 (Ai Update) series of updates. I'm now moving towards the 0.5 series of updates, which is focusing on the character Marie.

I get the question a lot from you guys 'When is BLANK coming out ?". Beleive me, I completely understand what that wait is like. In fact, one of my most favourite characters isn't coming for another few releases, so I myself am waiting too ! I promise that this is all odne this way so that I'm spending a good amount of time with each girl, and that way they all get their own attention to detail.

The next question I get a lot is "Is BLANK going to get more updates later on in the future ?", to which the answer is always Yes !  Each of the girls is getting a base level of Sex Scenes during their update, and then after those main updates are done, I"m moving into a Second Wave of updates where I focus on certain girls again to add in more Sex Scenes, Dialog, Activities and such !

I don't want to give out all the details right now, but I will tell you a brief list of upcoming girls in the next few updates. It will look like as follows :

0.5 - Marie

0.6 - Rise

0.7 - ???

0.8 - Naoto

0.9 - ???

0.10 - ???

You may have noticed that there are also additional girls sometimes in updates, take Aika for example. These girls are inteded to be used for some Sex Scenes, but not to have for the full on "Dating" portion of the game. This means that you can expect to see scenes with these charcters throughout, but not have to worry about Wooing them. Aika is one of these girls, there are plenty more in the works to come !

I also want to briefly touch on the design for the game. I really appreciate all the feedback I get from you guys. Almost everyday I get some sort of comment from someone about how much they are liking the look of the game, or about how it can be improved bbut they are excited for the potential. Just know that these comments are awesome, and keep me motivated to work harder at what I'm doing.

I"m not an artist, I"m a programmer. The art is something that I want to challenge myself with, and see how far I can take it.

Alright, So moving onto the 0.4 series.

First, I want to thank you all for your patience and kind words throughout it. It took a lot longer to complete than I thought it would, mostly because I kept coming up with new ideas that I wanted to throw in. 

While Ai Ebihara was certainly not a character that I wanted to put too much time into, she ended up becoming a great charcter to test different things out on. Which taught me a lot of cool things I can do with my engine.

I also went through a horrible bought of Fever/Flu and eventually Full on Covid. This slowed me down a bit, and even worse this affected my mental state a lot. I found it really hard to stay motivated while I was dealing with it, but after taking a few days away from it all I came back feeling really good. I guess it's true when you guys say I should take a break, it ends up making me work hard when I'm back !

This Ai Ebihara update added a new minigame "Basksetball" which was met with extremely mixed reviews. I don't think I have heard anyone say they "Love" it.  A lot of people don't seem to enjoy it much. Know that I will keep coming back to it to try and make it more rewarding when playing. Also know thatby creating that minigame, I learned a lot fo things that I should do (and a lot that I shouldn't) for the future minigames.

I worked harder on scene developments for Ai's update as well. Just basic talking scenes would span over multiple areas and include multiple characters. I was doing this a test for future "Event" like scenes that will be happening.

Ai's update also brought improvements to much of my older code. The main character can now be customized, and has been altered, Other charcaters can have certain articles of clothing Applied to their bodies regarldess of teh regular outfit they are wearing, and so on. These small ideas don't seem like too much at first, but in the long run they work wonders.

Ai had 3 Sex Scenes added to her update. These all served different purposes for me to test things out. The most notable one being the Blowjob scene, where I tried Randomising the action that Ai was doing. I think  this scene worked out well, and It gives me a lot of ideas for how to design some Sex Scenes in the future.

In other news : 

I will be receving a Steam Deck next week, and this will allow me to port over the game for Linux based operating systems. I hope this can be done quick and painlessly, but we shall see when we get there. I don't know if there is much demand for Linux support, but I want to port over to as much as I can.

In the 0.5 updates and moving forward, I will be trying out some new Shortcuts and better coding practices to speed up my development time. It will take longer at first, but in the long run should make updates go even faster. I"m hoping this pays off quickly !

I receive a few more Patrons for April. I appreciate the support, it helps me out a lot in the development of the game ! I want you to know that the money donated has gone 100% towards the game. So far it has been spent purely on Voice Acting, but If more money comes in, I will be spending it on more development expenses to allow me to create more assets. Thansk you so much, and I will keep this project going as long as I can for you guys !

Our discord server has recently had a lot of you guys join. This has turned out to be a great place for me to talk to you all and get your opinions on things for the game. I encourage all of you to pleasse join me there and talk about the game. It helps me out, pretty much every time I go there, to motivate my ideas of keep certain thoughts in check while coding. I really appreciate those of you on there now, and I hope to meet more of you soon !

Alright, That's my information dump from the top of my head. Not sure if I missed something but I'm sure you will hear more from me soon. I hope you all enjoy the coming week and I will try to get the first working version of 0.5 out to you soon !

Thanks,

~Dark Demarley