Dev Report #40 (July 14th, 2024)

Yo!

Didn't plan on having an "Official" report until after the update(s) were out but I also didn't plan on them not being out yet.
To let you guys know what's been happening:

I've ran into a few issues with finishing up E13. The scale of the change grew and I faced a number of issues with daz crashing. I've also been dealing with an issue of compiling the android version of the game. There's also been a number of small life things getting in the way.
The release time frames were a big mistake and it is 100% valid to be pissed at me about them. The reason I separated these updates into two different ones was to have something out for you guys sooner. The issues effectively wiped my chances of that so splitting them no longer makes much sense.
So this update will now be both E13 and E14. It will end up being around 1700 renders and over 40 animations. I have 2 scenes left to finish up and a few animations left. So there is some work left to do. To set an expectation, due to the issues I don't anticipate all of the render work and playtesting to be finished until about the 20th.
Though that isn't a hard date, it will be out this month and I promise I'm doing everything I can to have it out as soon as possible.
I'm also starting to post the daily tracker in the discord again to hopefully give you guys a better idea of what I'm working on.

I want to once again say that I know I have handled this release very poorly for way too long and I take full accountability for that. I want to keep my updates small but I get stuck on a scene and it takes me too long or I rework too many things and I get into my head about it. I'll feel guilty about it and panic myself into working ahead or expanding on something until it ends up being a large update which I have other issues with. This time I hit a double-whammy and ran into life issues along the way.
The idea of having beta updates was meant to alleviate some of that and it was working until I got majorly stuck on the Daliah scene. I do intend on returning to those type of updates moving forward.
I'm not making any 52/52 promises or anything like that, but I absolutely intend on update sizes being more in that 100-200 range and being way more frequent.

Apologies if this report didn't seem too focused, I had some stuff I had to get done today and I wrote this up quickly so I can get back to work on the update and make up for some lost time today.

Alright, I think that's all I have to say for now.
I want to once again thank you all for your patience and understanding. I appreciate it so fucking much. Have a wonderful week and I'll talk to all of you soon!
♥