News From the Six Realms #74 - The Summer of (Goblin) Love

Hey everyone,

It's time for another News from the Six Realms, and I'm writing this one in the garden as it is such a lovely day outside, a rarity in this part of the world. So, last month was release month and that went well, out on time as usual, and people seem to dig it. As always, however, the next release date is closing in on us with just over a month to go, so we have been hard at work in preparation.

Getting to the writing first, unfortunately we have had a bit of a setback in that Exagie, who was handing the goblin arc, has to reduce her workload due to real life issues. As a result, Winter and Rein have had to shift over to the goblin arc in order to concentrate on getting that finished in the near future, which will delay progress on what they were planning to work on (namely Helayna for Winter, and Jez/X'z for Rein). I have hired another new writer, Nyx, to help out but it will be a while before he can work on core content as we have to ease him in.

That being said, for the next release the current plan is more goblin content, the continuation of the last chaos incursion (featuring Ygrisse) from Wildquill, another Draith gay scene from Exagie, while Hooky is focusing on a new event for the Pure Alexia plotline, and if he has time also a new Fae one. If I have time I am also planning to write the penultimate event in the Andras NTR chain, but it depends on my workload.

Artwise, things are going well as usual. I have all the finished MDN pieces now which I will  continue sharing over the next few days. Sommy has already finished three backgrounds for the goblin arc (one of which you can see above), and is currently working on his two CGs for the month, both cinematic ones from NPC arc finales, which I will share with the backers when he is finished.

That about wraps  things up for today. For those waiting for the poll, I'll be posting it this afternoon. In other news, for those of you who haven't purchased the game on Steam yet, it will be available at 25% off from tomorrow in the Steam Summer Sale. And finally, the release date of the next backer version will be the last weekend of next month as usual, which this time falls on the 31st.