TM projects update

Hey folks,

I was actually too pessimistic and cautious with the deadlines for once.

The dirty Special will be released between Oct 10 - Oct 13 (for Lv5 patrons, a week later for Lv4 patrons), and TM 1.0 will be released this month, too.

I had a moment a few days ago where I felt more like working on the final new TM 1.0 scenes than the other stuff, so I prioritized my motivation over doing things "in the reasonable order" and now I've finished not only all fantasies content for the special, leaving only 2 new memory scenes to render, but also finished 3 new sandbox scenes and 2 small new character story scenes for the main game (and ported back the one dream from the special to the main game), as well as some other improvements.

In short, TM 1.0 will not only be a little bigger, but also arrive a little sooner than expected (for patrons, in any case).

As TM 1.0 will bring significant new content, it'll go through the normal TM early access stages, Lv3+ first, Lv2 about 3-4 days later, Lv1 a week after Lv3+.

As it's meant to be the penultimate final content update of TM, it'll also
- improve the character sprites used earlier in the game, the old ones were simply too low-res and zoomed-out (and used too lossy compression) for a 720p game
- adress some long-standing early-game pacing issues, by adding a few (short) additional character story scenes for a bit more build-up for Leyla, Mary and Emily.
Those of you with later savegames will be able to watch these new scenes in the gallery retroactively, though you'll have to forward time at least once to unlock them.

These new scenes won't be long and won't suddenly turn TM into a story-heavy VN or anything, they're just meant to make things feel at least a little more natural in terms of early progression.
They're also mostly meant to give new players a better first impression, and bring chapter 1 to a level I'm a bit happier with, but I hope some of you will enjoy them, too.

Anyway, tl;dr:

• TM dirty special for those who don't mind seeing TM girls with other guys in memories, dreams and fantasies: next weeks' weekend (around Oct 12) for Lord of Love tier

• TM dirty special for Maid Master tier: 7 days later

• TM 1.0 with a number of new scenes and improvements: ideally the weekend of the 19th (possibly same day as the special drops for Maid Masters), but could be a week later, not sure yet

P.S.: GoV 0.5 probably won't make it for the 12th btw, sorry.
Nearly all Lv3+ patrons for the GoV-specific tiers already dropped out again, so almost all Lv3+ patrons remaining are probably mostly here for TM content and I feel we should therefore prioritize the final TM content until that's dealt with.
But GoV 0.5 is still already about half-finished, will become No.1 priority again as soon as the final 2 scenes for the TM special and most new scenes for TM 1.0 have been finished, and is still slated for this month and "as soon as we can manage", as well as going to be the biggest single GoV update so far.

Basically, the drought will be followed by a flood, for both TM and GoV :)

Hang in there and stay tuned,

-OCN