Monthly News - v0.4 Progress and delays.

Hello everyone.

Although we don't like to have to apologize again, the situation regarding the delays of the latest updates still requires some transparency.

From the beginning, we could really work on developing Hot Springs Academy all day, and we did, as long as we had the money to do it.

We hoped that in 4-6 months we could reach at least 150 patrons. This necessary minimum would allow us to continue to devote almost all of our time to game development.

However, due to many problems with the game, its popularity simply did not reach this level, and any additional content in the game did not change the situation much. This continued for too long and we were forced to take a job with almost full-time hours.

Actually, that's why the development time for update v0.3 (with Momo) increased noticeably this spring.

We didn't plan to talk about it from the beginning, because we didn't expect this situation to last this long.

Expectedly, you're starting to ask questions about release dates more and more.

Speaking of the upcoming v0.4 update, I also have to say that around August, my city (and I'm not talking about Utagachi) experienced an incredible heat wave and as a result, for almost a month and a half, the project made almost no progress. Of course, we tried to work at night much cooler, but after a few attempts, it quickly became apparent that reducing sleep time with the new work schedule was not a good idea.

To be more precise about the difficulties, the main problem is that we no longer have the possibility to think about the project all the time is precisely to work on the story.

It is very difficult to write a proper script when, most of the time, something is constantly distracting you, preventing you from gathering your thoughts.

We could make some simplifications to speed up the development of the update, but the next update of our project is the most important one so far because all new players will have to go through its content.

In addition, we must regularly check for consistency to ensure that any changes made are in good harmony with the actual content of the game.

Unfortunately, these are not all the things and all the problems we have to face right now.

However, we are not standing still but working hard, using all our free time.

Of course, we don't like to talk about problems, either.

It's much more enjoyable to just release new updates and see your reactions to them, no matter what they could be.

We hope that the upcoming updates will fix the situation and progress will be much faster.

Speaking of upcoming content, we want to remind you all that the new events in v0.4 are needed to give a new look to the second game day, as well as to improve the quality of life of the game with the memory system.

In the update v0.5 there will be 2 very hot events waiting for you at once.

And then things will get even more interesting, because, as we said before, the event with Momo was not as simple as it might seem.

Our little team hopes that we can overcome all our problems so that we can quickly show you all the things we have been planning all this time.

What's more, we can't wait to see it happen.

Thanks again to all of you who continue to stay with us, support us or just follow the news.

We are very happy and thankful for all your support during this difficult time.