Meet Hitomi - The Demoness, Opinion Poll Results, v0.2 progress update.

This week we have the finished artwork for the character voted on in the last poll, Hitomi the Demoness!

I'll also be talking about the opinion poll results and how it's going to influence planning for v0.3.

But first, here's Hitomi!

Hitomi is a demoness princess in her own reality. She's a bit spoiled and spends her time doing whatever she thinks is fun. Which is usually milking one of her many "pets". Unlike many other demoness', she doesn't just milk men dry and move on. Hitomi considers her self a cum connoisseur and will keep the men she thinks are the most fun or taste the best.

I already talked about her inspiration and everything in the poll, so I wont go into it again. You can check out the poll here if you didn't see it and are interested. - https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-4-demoness-106638392

I'm pretty happy with how she turned out. If you know the inspiration then you can definitely see it, but she still feels like her own character.

Now for the opinion poll results!

Opinion Poll Results

For the most part, the results were about what I expected. A pretty even split among a lot of different characters. Namely Alicia, Ayako, Angela, Aoyagi, Mirai, and then Rinko. (So many A names lol). This is has been one of the goals with WW from the start, for there to be a lot of variety so that everyone can have a different favorites. A big reason I Wanted to do this poll, was to see how successful that was. I'd say that overall it has been, which is good.

Except there was one character that got more votes than anyone else, Akari. She got about 1/3 of the total votes. I was really surprised, I didn't expect her to be that popular! I'm not complaining or anything, I like all of the characters, I just wasn't expecting that at all.

Because of Akari's popularity, I'll be doing something else with her. I'll talk more about the specifics below.

I kind of split the results into types as well. I determined types based on their primary visual characteristics. The thing that kind of defines them. These are the types I classified for the characters that got voted for, and percentage of votes.

Thicc/MILF - 56% of votes

Professional/OL - 22%

Beach Babe - 11%

Goth - 11%

Glasses - 11%

Teacher - 11%

I know that's not 100%. This is just the total overall percent, and I split Mirai into both professional and glasses, since she could be either type. And split Rinko into professional and teacher, since she could be either type.

One thing is for sure though, the thicc characters are definitely the most popular, with professional women being second. Then beach babes, goth, glasses, and teachers coming in third.

Since these are the types that got voted for, when I can I'll be making an effort to make more characters that fit into one of these types.

More Specific Plans -  

I had plans for each of these types already, except goth. I had planned on making at least one goth variant for each of the random characters, but wasn't planning on including any more unique goth characters, but I will now. Here's the plan for each type.

Thicc/MILF - 

I had already planned on making some of the remaining women in the neighborhood thicc/MILF types, but now I'll be making more of the remaining neighborhood women thicc/MILF types. I had 5 more women planned for the neighborhood, but only 1 was thicc. One of those is Akari's daughter, and another is one inspired by of my personal favorite eroge characters, so those will be staying the same. The other three will all be thicc now though! I'll be making the random MILF thicc now too. I had planned on making her more of a suburban soccer mom type of MILF, but I'll be making her a bit thiccer now.

Professional/OL/Teacher - 

I had already planned a big area just for professional/office lady types, the downtown office! Since I already have a big area planned for just this type, I'm not going to be adding too many more. Same with the teachers. The MMC storyline is almost all teachers, so there's already going to be at least 2 more added. I'm also going to be adding a random teacher, so there's not much need for more. I will make the random teacher a more professional type now though. I was playing with the idea of making them a bit more casual, but now she'll definitely be more professional looking.

Beach Babe - 

Since the beach area is so small, I wasn't planning on adding more unique characters to it. And while I'm still not going to, at least for the v0.3 cycle, what I'll do instead is setup the random beach babe to have a lot more unique variations. I'll also make the beach area bigger so more can fit. Instead of just one version with only color variations, I'll include different swimsuit types and hairstyles as well. Maybe some will have sunglasses too. I'll figure that out when I'm working on it.

Goth -

I've been overall pretty surprised with Angela's popularity. She's easily one of my favorite characters I've created, so I'm definitely happy to see that though. I did create an entire game around her lol. But goth girls overall seem to be a lot more popular than I expected recently. As mentioned above, I'll always be including a goth version for random characters, but I am also going to add at least one more goth side character. More than likely it will end up being a character I have planned for the apartments. A goth style fits well with her personality, so it should be a good fit.

Glasses -

This one is a little weird because "glasses" isn't technically a specific type. But because a glasses character got a vote, I'll be including glasses on a couple more characters now. The scientist in the lab was already planned to have them, but there wasn't anyone else I had specifically thought about including glasses for. So I'll be trying them out a bit more and seeing if glasses work as I design characters, and I'll be sure to include at least one or two more. I'll also be testing out glasses variations on some of the random characters.

Side Note on Branches -

I've seen so many comments asking about if you can unlock the other starters, that I'm going to be implementing a line in-game that tells you that you only have access to the one you choose as the start, and a hint about being able to unlock the others later.

Whenever there's a choice that has a branching path like this, I'll be sure to include a note as well. Because starting with the lab storyline, there WILL be missable women depending on your choices. So I'll be sure to make it very clear when that happens.

v0.2 Progress Update -

Since this is the last post of the month and v0.2 isn't out in early access yet, I wanted to touch on the progress.

My 3D work has taken off a lot more than I expected it to and then I had guests for 10 days and couldn't work as much as I had thought I would be able to. To try and make sure ensure that v0.2 releases into early access by the end of the month, I've decided to push a few characters to after v0.2 releases. I'll talk about them in a moment. First, I want to talk about pregnancy, because it ties into why characters were pushed.

Even though the pregancy poll still has a lot of time left, it's very clear that people want as much pregnancy as possible. I was planning on doing a pregnancy update after v0.2 to introduce all the new pregnancy characters, but since it's so overwhelmingly popular, I want to include all of the currently planned pregnancy in a single update. Having to go back and make pregnant variations of scenes will take a bit of time, and I decided it was best to implement more pregnancy instead of new characters.

Okay, and now here are the characters who were pushed back and why.

Ms. Tyler - I had been considering pushing her back for a while, so she was the first I pushed. I want the MMC storyline to get some attention, and having an update dedicated to just MMC characters would get more people to try it out. So I'll be pushing her and then releasing her along with at least one other MMC character.

Random Character - I mentioned in the monthly update that I may be pushing the next random character, and I have. They just take way too much time.

Akari's Daughter  - Because of the popularity of Akari, I've decided to create a short storyline with both Akari and Akari's daughter. Basically, the story will involve you choosing between being able to get either Akari or her daughter pregnant. You'll always be able to sleep with both of them, but you'll only be able to impregnate one of them. This will make sense in the story. So basically I wanted to include pregnancy for Akari, but Akari had her tubes tied and specifically says she doesn't want anymore kids, so I had to come up with a good reason why she would go through the process to undo this and be open to pregnancy again. At the same time, I want to start introducing more choices that actually affect the game, and thought this was a good opportunity. Like mentioned above, there will be a warning in-game about the decision.

Anyway, since I'm going to implement more of a storyline here, it's just going to take a little more time. It would be better to save it for a future update so that there's more content in the update.

Working Girls - And lastly, I pushed back the working girls new scene. I was going to push back Madison's, since she was the wild card pick, but I promised she'd be getting a pregnant scene in the pregnant poll and with Akari's daughter already getting pushed, pushing Madison would mean only 2 characters would get pregnant scenes added. Which just isn't very many. Adding a new scene for the working girls is also a lot more work than a normal character, because there's 3 of them and the programming part of them is more complex than most characters. Pushing them is really what's giving me the time to make the new pregnant variations. Their new scene will be included in the first update after v0.2 instead.

So what's left? -

So with 4 characters pushed back, let's look at the totals.

3 poll characters - 3 art posts
Angela (added in v0.1.3)
Seika (added in v0.1.3)
Madison

Random Skank - (added in v0.1.3)

Random Schoolgirl/Cheerleader - 2 art posts (done and ready to be put in the game)

Rinko - (added to v0.1.2)

Akari - (added to v0.1.2)

Aoyagi - 2 art posts (done and partially coded)

New Starter Scenes - 3 art posts (Ayako done)

Freya - 2 art posts (done and announced)

Skadi - 2 art posts (done and announced)

Scientist Main Story Character - 1 art post (character CG only, since her scene will be the reward for finishing the first part of the lab storyline, which will come in the next update cycle)

The Demoness - 2 art posts - (character CG done)

Shizuka - 2 art posts (art done and partially coded)

Goth Seika - 0 art posts (since she's just variations of Seika's scenes, it wont be it's own update and wont waste a slot)

Ms. Hartley - New character CG and existing scene reworked (done and ready to be put in game, replaced the one-off woman)

23 out of 27 Done

Pregnancy Variations to do -

Alicia
Sakura (done)
Madison
Static Random Skank (done... sort of)
Static Random Schoolgirl (done)
Static Random Cheerleader (done)

4 out of 5 done

The pregnant variations I've done so far weren't too difficult or time consuming. For the random skank, because of the angle of the scene, you can't see her stomach at all, and wouldn't be able to see it even if she was pregnant. I don't want to spend the time to make a new scene just for the pregnancy for a random characters. So there's not going to be a specific pregnant version, it'll just say she's pregnant.

All that's left is Alicia, because she's going to take a bit longer to do. She's wearing her swimsuit and I didn't set it up to have a nude version, so I'll have to completely redo her entire stomach area. Then Madison's second scene hasn't been made yet lol. I'll make her pregnancy variation when I make the scene, which will be soon. I'm going to have it setup to be a split scene, like the Random Skank. If it's like the Random Skank scene, it should be a little faster than usual.

Implementing should be the really time consuming part. I have the previous version of Aoyagi programmed in already, but I haven't really tested it since I made WW an original game. I'm not sure how well it works or if something else I added broke it. I'm hoping it's solid and I can basically just copy and paste it into the other characters, but if not, it'll take a while.

If v0.2 isn't done by the end of August -

If v0.2 isn't done by the end of August, what I'm going to do instead is release a sort of preview build to Waifu Early Access supporters on the 31st. This will be an unfinished, untested, and probably broken version of whatever is done by the end of the month. I'll say this in the post as well, but you'll definitely want to make a separate save if you play this build. I'm doing this mainly because I want to ensure that something gets put out. This wont be a build I release to the public and will ask that no one else share it either. v0.2 is a big update, and I don't want people coming back to the game when it's a broken mess. Then once v0.2 is actually done, it will go into early access like normal.

Kind of long boi - 

And that's all for this week. This is going to be the last public post for the month, so I wanted to give a good solid overview of the state of the game. Because of the weird way the month is, next week is a sort of extra week of the month. So I've decided to do an extra post, just for paid patrons, as a thanks for supporting the game. I'll introduce the scientist and give a little preview of how the lab storyline starts and give some tips on how to progress faster.

The plan is to release v0.2 next weekend into early access, then go over the plans for the v0.3 cycle in the monthly update. We'll see what happens though. It entirely depends on how much time I end up having to work on the game and how fast I'm able to implement everything. If there aren't a lot of issues it should go pretty fast, but the programming side is a bit more complicated with pregnancy and storylines, because there's just a lot of variables that need to be tracked and properly triggered. I'll give another update in the post next week. I'm having a dental procedure done on the 30th, and wont be able to work for at least a couple of days, so I'll know for sure what's going to happen next Wednesday.

Anyway, I hope you look forward to seeing Hitomi, the new pregnancy mechanic, and all the other content being added in v0.2!