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Last Report Before My Vacation

Good afternoon,

we're again close to the weekend but before I begin mine I wanted to give you another review of the past week as well as a short overview on things I want to work on after the two weeks are over.

So first about the past week: I've been working mostly on the last outside map as well as the daily cycles for Elisabeth, Abraham and Lilly. The other thing I've started to work on are sprites for cows, a renovated barn (outside and inside). The latter will probably need...

Vacation Note for July

I will be on vacation during July and continue working as before in August.
Because of that I will pause all active subscriptions during that time.
So you won't be charged for July, if you have an active subscription it will be paused and will be resumed right after July so that everything I might post in July or release in August within the time you subscribed will also be available to you.
It also means that you won't be able to subscribe during July. In August e...

Weekly Status Report

Good afternoon,

again, almost weekend so time to give you another update on my work this week.

After the update on Monday some bugs had to be fixed. I have put the corresponding hotfixes in the release post (you can also see what has been fixed there).
The rest of the week I was mostly busy working on new maps. Most of the maps (interior of the Estate) are now finished, but the one south of Arenfield is still incomplete, I plan to use it also for Penny's story. That is what I ...

A Short Review And Next Steps

Good evening,

I have just finished my work on 0.5.8.5 and finally have time for a short breather before starting work on 0.5.9.0.

As so often, I underestimated the time needed to finish the update. Shouldn't surprise anyone by now, but it gave me an extra push to finish as soon as possible. This report is also a bit delayed due to that I wanted to finish the update before writing it.
The update now includes one more map than originally planned, this was necessary for the introd...

Release 0.5.8.5a + Hotfix b

Good evening,

The update is finally done (not the first time), even though it took a lot longer to finish than I expected.
After missing my deadline last Wednesday I did everything I could to at least get it out on Friday, when that too didn't work out I worked Saturday until midnight before I had to pause it until today.

So now finally some relief that this first milestone is done! There is still a lot to do for the full 0.5.9.0 update. But the foundation has now been laid. I ...

Last steps before 0.5.8.5

Good afternoon,

Another busy week coming to an end. Time to give you a short overview!

This week I was mainly busy with animation work. Most of them were transitional animations, which I thought were still missing in Penny's current content. But of course I didn't just want to add to the existing content, I also wanted to add a new scene, which is why I was working on these until just now and will continue to do so after this report.

Another thing I worked on at the beginnin...

Weekly Status Report

Good morning,

It's still early, and before I continue working on new dialogs I wanted to give you a short overview of the things I got done in the past week.

I started the week by finishing the exterior map of the Coldstone estate (as shown in the title). After that, I worked on the sprites for the chickens.
Originally I had the idea to make them very detailed (differences between male/female age and a saturation level). I had already roughly thought of a visualization of the ...

Work on Penny's update has begun

 Good evening,

again almost weekend, so time to review the past week.

My biggest accomplishment this week was the completion the bonus scene for Hiba & Ayita. Since not everyone could read the changelog a quick sums up: I reworked most of the graphics for Ayita (including dance and her first sex scene + also made new dance animations for her dancing naked with and without the MC) and also rewrote her quest along with a lot of her dialog. The option to claim her is current...

Bonusscene Ayita & Hiba (0.5.8.1b)

I still can't believe it... It's finally done.

You can't imagine how much this scene has stressed me over the past 3 weeks. At first I thought It would be an easy to make bonus scene, no problem, done within a week... Man was I wrong. But to a certain degree I have to blaim myself for putting in more... and more and more into the scene so that now you can't really call it a bonus scene anymore but rather a content update for Ayita & Hiba. I guess the changelog will explain it best.<...

A Little Overextended

Good afternoon,

Last week I told you that I might be able to finish the scene that day... After a long night, I worked another 8 hours the following Saturday with the aim of achieving what I hadn't managed the day before.
While working on the scene, I then decided (as mentioned in my comment under the last post) to also include the 3some scene with Hiba and Ayita, which I had made pictures for but then took out of the scene because I already saw that it would be too much work to add ...

A bit more complicated than I expected

Good evening,

You might be wondering why the bonus scene isn't finished yet. I thought I would have finished it by Wednesday at the latest, but that was a big miscalculation.

While the images and the editing of these were already completed on Monday (on Tuesday I gave 2024-05-10 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post

A new month, new goals

Good afternoon,

After two weeks of delayed reports, this one is finally back on time on a Friday!

Over the week I spent most of my time (apart from a few bugfixes) working on the upcoming bonus scene for Ayita and Hiba in Rumah. For this I worked on animations that can run while sitting by the fire. The idea is that not only Raaisha but also Ayita or Hiba can keep the MC company (If they aren't busy already of course).
Most of the pictures are already finished, but dialogs and...

Bonus Scene Poll May

It's been a while since the last bonus scene poll.
I'm sorry for that, but just to clarify:
You didn't miss the poll for the last bonus scene. For quite some time (more than a year) there was always the situation: You didn't vote for the next bonus scene but for the bonus scene after the next one. That was so confusing that even I struggled with it. How did it come to that? Because there was a time when I wanted to make a bonus scene every month. I did that until...

Content Poll 0.6.0.0

Good morning!

It's finally time to get the next content poll going!
I have long been thinking about who I should add as a new option this time. As said in a previous poll currently a lot of options are locked due to Kirlic still being missing. Looking at the current votes this will probably change in the near future, although Bianca & Gavina will probably win this time. We will see!
Anyway, because of that I've decided to add an option that doesn't depend on Kirlic or the oth...

A fresh start into the new week

Good afternoon,

I've just fixed the reported bugs in 0.5.8.0 and the reupload is mostly finished as well (hotfix available for 0.5.8.0 Test). I've also updated the walkthrough a few minutes ago.

Now that the update is finally done I'd like to talk about it a bit. This will contain spoilers, so if you didn't play Carmen's quest yet then you should probably skip reading the following paragraph (still no spoiler tag option here).

About 0.5.8.0: This update incl...

Release 0.5.8.0a + Hotfix b

Good evening,

After another week and a few very crunchy last days lay behind me.
But now the update is finally done! This update wasn't the easiest for me... A lot of back and forth rewriting of the story, scrapping of original ideas and then a lot of loose ends that had to be connected. I wanted to talk about that in detail in my friday report, but since I wasn't able to complete the update yesterday and it also took this day to finally be done I will have to delay my report until m...

Last Steps To 0.5.8.0

Good evening,

I hope you all had a good weekend!
I'm a bit late again, but I wanted to review the last week.

As already written in the releasepost of 0.5.7.9 I had already written half of this report on Friday only to decide not to post it. Instead, I did everything I could to show what was already implemented and what was not and brought the update to a working state.

There are now 2 construction sites that I have to complete in the coming week and as I am now far behind...

Release 0.5.7.9 + (hotfix a)

Huh... What a day.

You know at around noon I wanted to write my weekly report. I had it halfway written when I just stared at it and was so unhappy with telling you "it still isn't complete".

So instead I decided to double down and get everything done that was possible today.
You might wonder why it's not the full release. The answer to that is again: more stuff that I've been working on over the week. New ideas, others that I have thrown overboard. Additional transition scenes...

Time For Spring-Cleaning

Good morning,

It's time once again to give you an overview of the status of my work. So here we go.

The week has started with me continuing Carmen's quest to find her son. You have to know that I originally planned this quest very extensively, but there were already a few steps that I considered illogical and saved under "I'll take care of it when I'm actually working on it". Well, this step now came.
For a short time, I had the idea of just ending it all in uncertainty. A con...

Weekly Status Report

Good afternoon,

last day of the week and tomorrow I'll be working back in full, but I wouldn't want to skip this report and since the reupload of 0.5.7.8 still takes some time I decided to write a little while it's uploading.

This week I've been working on some more animations for Claire as you have probably already noticed if you looked into the 0.5.7.8 update. 6 in total + transitions and that is now also implemented and thanks to a lot of fixing today now also finally working c...

Release 0.5.7.8 + Hotfix

Good morning,

feels like we had this recently already... right, same as last week.

I've decided to make this update not only so that you can see what I've done over the past week but also so that those of you who want can help me smooth out problems that will probably still be in this version. I've been running tests over the past 2 hours, but I didn't test out every decision along the way of the sharing route for Claire and Bjorn.

For those of you unaware how to trigger th...

Weekly Status Report

Good morning,

as you've probably guessed, I was in crunch mode yesterday and didn't want to spend an extra half hour writing a report, which is why I'm doing this today, now that the update is somewhat released.

I've already written in the release post that I didn't get everything into 0.5.7.7 what I wanted to. The reason for this was that I changed parts of the planned script again. Parts of Carmen's background story that I had already written were completely thrown out because I...

Release 0.5.7.7 + Hotfix

Good morning,

It's gotten a bit late as usual, I'll keep this one brief and will write a bit more in my report which will come tomorrow after I had some sleep.

This update does not include everything I wanted to have in it. This is because I have been working on some new animations this week (with the actual goal of course to include them in 0.5.7.7) In the end, however, as is so often the case, it all took longer than planned, which is why the story leading up to these scenes has...

Progress on 0.5.8.0 and some thoughts on it

Good afternoon,

the week is almost over, so time to give you an update on my progress.

This week I've been mostly working on the implementation of the scenes for Kate and Claire. For Claire, I had to add a few transitional animations to make her scene a bit more comprehensible. I've also been working on animations for another scene for her which will follow as a later consequence to the first one (it's not built in yet though).

Kate's scene is finished so far, but I'm thinki...

Adopting to new situations

Good afternoon,

this may come as a bit of a surprise to some of you, but recent changes in Patreon policy have made it necessary for me to do a bit of forward planning.

Over the past week I've been contacted by many of you who were concerned about the future of the game due to Patreon removing several other adult creators from their plattform.
This is due to the fact that they have tightened their guidelines regarding adult entertainment.

Since I have been running this ac...

An Invitation?

Good afternoon,

this week, as announced, I have been working on new animations and individual images for new scenes. Of course, this included thinking about how exactly they should look and run. For Claire's scene you now have a little teaser, the others I'll leave as a surprise.

Another big point this week was working on the dice poker mini-game. I took your comments seriously after my last post and came to the conclusion that a card based poker game would have really exceeded th...

Roadmap to 0.5.8.0

Good afternoon!

The week is drawing to a close again. So it's time to go through the progress made so far.

The 0.5.7.5 update is finally complete. As already mentioned, it is more of a demo (as a lot of work went into the required materials) than really much new content. I will deliver that with 0.5.8.0. Of course there were still bugs in 0.5.7.5, I hope they are mostly fixed now, if not let me know and I will fix them.

Next, I started working on the moving scene again. Afte...

Release 0.5.7.5

Good Evening,

as all so often it's already past midnight here. I've now decided to put a stop to my work on 0.5.7.5 and call it finished. It's always the same, I usually get into a state where I think "ok that one more content could also be added and would make a good breakpoint". I had originally planned to add more interaction with Carmen, but instead I have now added an interaction with Bjorn, as this was more beneficial for the journey to Kirlic quest.

But before I continue wr...

Status of 0.5.7.5

Good evening,

it's already the first day of the new month and I'm still working on 0.5.7.5. At least I'm getting close to the release now, but there are a few things I'd like to add before releasing it.

First of all, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to finish it yesterday. I thought I might be able to finish it close to the deadline without excessive crunch for once, but that wasn't possible. I increased my daily workhours already since monday, but there are still some rough edges I h...

Weekly Status Report

Good afternoon,

While writing this I'm currently trying to get a moving Background working... If that somehow works out I'll post a preview later when the rendering process is done.

Anyway, lets talk about the past week. I've mostly been working on positions and transitions for the characters around the old boar inn. So I've added daily cycles for Carmen, Bjorn, Kate & Claire and made travelling between Arenfield and the old boar possible. It didn't work the way I wanted it ...