Monthly News - v0.3 Release Date and Progress.

Hi all.

As we said before, we were going to release an update every month, but this month we are having some difficulties. In the beginning, we didn't want to be specific about them so as not to focus on negative things. However, we realized that it would be much better to list them briefly for all of you.

After the hard release of version 0.2, we didn't give ourselves a break and immediately rushed to release a batch of monthly Christmas arts (And we are incredibly happy with how you liked them, thank you all).

After that, we gave ourselves a week off. (Well, how to say... personally, I, Flamin, immediately started programming relatively simple but necessary editor's plugins, which is practically a vacation for me, hee-hee).
For example, a small tool was created to work more quickly with the fingers, because we work on them very often.

At the beginning of January, we also spent time on minor improvements (plugins, some first update content improvements, etc.), and we seem to have miscalculated a bit.
But unexpectedly for our team, one of the main reasons for the delay was something else. With the beginning of the first images my friend, that is Maxim, had difficulties with his eyesight, which he is treating until today and there is not much improvement. His case is really related to eye fatigue, unlike the situation that happened to me before Christmas. Back then, as I wrote in discord, I didn't believe my eyes could get that tired and I was right. When I went to the doctors it turned out that I had an infection in my eye (accidentally touched my eye sometime, for sure), after which with the right medication all the pain in my eye was eliminated in 1 day. That's why we still managed to release update 0.2 in early access before Christmas.
I think it's worth noting that because of this, image creation is slower at the moment.

However, hopefully you will take some solace in the fact that, in the end, the amount of content of the upcoming update will be equal to about 1.5 months of work.

And while Maxim recovers and creates images at his own pace, I've added a minigame in an upcoming update.
Why did I decide to mention it, you may ask?
Because it took an experienced programmer almost a whole week to create a simple but optimized real-time minigame in RenPy! Fu**... Ahem... Oh yeah, my ass is still on fire after spending almost a week searching for the pieces of functionality I needed, and working in the most inconvenient IDE I ever worked with (IDE - code editor, for short) which is basically just a standard notepad...

But now, yes, I know how to make mini-games that can properly run in the middle of a visual novel.
Thanks to RenPy+Python+Notepad and the lack of correct and working examples on the Internet  X_x

You should also consider the fact that this particular update's story has not even been partially written before, as was the case with update 0.2 or will be in the updates after the upcoming update with the pool. I emphasize this because scripting always takes our team almost half of the total update creation time. Why so much? Because giving the task of writing a detailed story to a programmer as an introvert who is used to shortening everything in life is not the best idea. If anyone is interested, I may write more about it somewhere in the future. But now you understand a little bit the reason why hiring a good scriptwriter, who under our guidance can describe our (as well as his) ideas in detail, is at the top of our list of goals.

Having told you all this, of course, we are not looking for you to cheer us up.

We just described to you the reasons for the delays of this particular update, and also wanted to tell you that "behind the scenes" pleasant game is not always the dancing rainbow ponies together with Nyanko ;-)

At the moment we are continuing to fill in the story and create images.
And of course, very soon we will also release monthly arts.
Estimated release date for the upcoming update: Second half of February.
We will still be releasing updates every month in the future.

And right now thank you all very much for your patience and support.
See you soon.

Previews of the update will be posted for patrons a little later, when all the necessary images for it are ready.