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Alright, with that reminder out of the way...progress report time! As of just a few minutes ago, the first 11 scenes of the build are fully finished (aside from testing and grammar/typo edits, which is always done last). Two of them aren't exactly sex scenes, per se, but they have their own video component and they're pony play stuff, so I figure they count? Well, even if you ignore those, there are 9 scenes that definitely count done so far. I'm about a day behind my IDEAL timetable, but honestly about where I actually excepted to be (for once). This was because there is a LOT of bits and pieces I needed to add for the new sections, since this update is tackling the New Landing Adventurer's Guild, which was basically a giant blank up until now.
That's certainly not going to be the case once this build releases though! The first Aventuer's Guild quest is finished at this point...and it also unlocks a bunch more Pony Content since Ryka is the quest commissioner, she needs help clearing up a nasty bandit issue that's stopped the grand opening of the Pony Parlor.
Later today, assuming an alien doesn't abduct me in my sleep or something equally dire, I'm intending to start on a second round of asset acquisition for the update. The goal will be to add in the second quest for the Adventuer's Guild, as well as possibly some other bits and pieces if I have time. The overall goal of this build is to bring the third path through New Landing up to the same point the Mage's Guild and Thieves Guild are developed to. The current expected release date is some time on the 1st, though that may slip a bit depending on how everything goes.
For those interested in the longer view...originally I'd planned to have New Landing complete at the end of December. A few smaller-than-usual updates have pushed that back a month but, hopefully, New Landing will be completely wrapped up by the end of January, and we'll be moving on to the College of Allund. New Landing was always planned to be the single largest area in the game, with the College of Allund and one more surprise area after it being more in line with the size of Hope's Rest. (Which was still over 50 scenes). Each of those will be at least 2 full builds (possibly 3), and then there's the ending of the game...which is definitely a secret but may take up to an additional two builds, since there's going to be at least three possible endings. That means that, currently, the absolute soonest completion time for the game will be sometime in July of next year (unless something major changes). At which point I will breathe a HUGE sigh of relief and never ever ever consider working with either Visual Novel Maker or Skyrim EVER AGAIN. EVER. EVER EVER...