Progress on Build 0.4 and Estimated Release

While I've been updating the estimates in the original Status Update post, I wanted to give everyone some more details on where things are, how they are going, and my current estimate for getting this into your hands.

First, this update is going to be the largest yet. Build 0.3a clocked in at just under 4,000 lines of code. I haven't even added the code for the images on Chapter 8 yet and I've already blown past 7,000 lines. Chapter 7 is going to have around 350 images, whereas Build 0.3 -- from the Prologue through Chapter 6 -- had 548.

Second, I finished staging all the images for Chapter 7 this weekend and they are nearly all rendered and added to the game. Further, I've begun work on staging the images for Chapter 8. Because there are two sex scenes in Chapter 8, this next chapter is going to be a lot of work. Anytime two models are touching each other, there are a lot of fine adjustments that have to be made for every shot and any "animated" sequence involves three to five such images often with multiple such touch points. 

And that's before I begin adding in music and sound and running QC.

So, when is it coming? 

Right now, I am aiming for late April. I could try to push Chapter 7 out to you now but there are two reasons I don't want to do that. First, these two chapters really go together narratively and there isn't a nice cliffhanger for me to put at the end of Chapter 7. Second, polishing Chapter 7 now means I have to delay work on Chapter 8.

With that target in mind, here is my promise to you:  If I don't have this released to you by the end of the month, anyone who has been a patron during the month of April will get a free month in May. I'm also not going to rush it. If I feel it's not ready or up to the standards of the previous releases, I'll hold it for release until May until it gets the polish it needs. 

I'm not going to make a habit of this but I think it's the right and fair thing to do for folks who have come on to support me at this early stage of the project.

So... there we are! Let me know if you have any questions, comments or just want to chat. I am here and on our Discord server throughout the day.

In the meantime... here's another little teaser from Chapter 7:

Cheers!