Status Update on Build 0.4 (as of May 1)

Revised May 1 -- Updated Areas are Underlined

Before I get into the details, here is some context:  Build 0.2 was a quick update turned around in two weeks as a "thank you" for early backers. Build 0.3 was a more substantial update that more doubled the size of the game from ~2,000 lines of code to slightly less than 4,000. Build 0.4 is more than double the size of Build 0.3, both in terms of lines of code and images.

• Initial Script:  100%
• Initial Renders:  100% (Completed May 1)
• Adding Dialogue Menus/Choices:  ~80%
• Edit/Revise Script:  85%
• Correcting Renders:  90%
• Adding Sound:  20%
• QC:  75%

What's coming in the next build?

Build 0.4 will have two new chapters. These chapters will be a little different than the ones I've previously released in that Chapter 7 is going to have a decision resulting in two possible paths (I hope you try them both). Compared to previous chapters, Chapter 8 will be massive and include an optional lunch date with the new character. (I wouldn't skip it, but you can if you want.) Following the lunch date, Alex has an important meeting that could decide his future. 

Somewhere in all of this is going to be sex... a lot of sex. Chapter 7 is going to open with an explicit scene that gets back at some of the horror elements in the game, then the subsequent sex scenes are going to start to delve more deeply into the Dom/sub roles... but also how the sub can still assert power.

How big is it?

Let's break out the tape measure.

Build 0.3 was just a hair under 4000 lines of coding and dialogue in it. As of April 3, the first draft of the dialogue is complete with the story-critical menus finished. Before adding images, this is coming in at 6200+ lines -- that's 2200+ lines of pure dialogue and branching menu choices.

Further, I've staged and rendered almost 700 images and I'm about 80% of the way through the script and more still need to be rendered and added to the game. 

What else is going on?

If you're a patron, you know with each release I go back and try to improve what's already been done. Here is a preliminary list of items from the changelog:

• Corrected lighting in the solo/fantasy sequence at the end of Chapter 3;
• Added some Italian to Santino's dialogue in Chapter 4;
• Adjusted dialogue in first conversation menu in Chapter 5 to better reflect player choice/expectations;
• Reduced the number of lines of repeating dialogue in the perspective transitions in Chapter 5 to one line, and put it in italics;
• Making it a little less difficult to unlock the sex and strip scenes with Nick in Chapter 6;
• Corrected some lighting and improved render quality for Chapter 6 cliffhanger;
• Fixed some typos in the dialogue

When is it coming?

Current projection is early May. 

That's it for now. I'll continue to update this post as work progresses.