Playable Environment + ADV (end of month, hopefully!)

Hey everyone, 

We've been working on a new (and one of the final) environments - the Student Dormitories. This is where you will live during your stay at Takayama, as well as some of your classmates, and we imagine a bunch of fun scenes will take place here ;           )

The dormitory campus contains two buildings, male and female, along with a few sub-environments for scenes to take place, and maybe some extra game play activities if we can thing of some: communal area, kitchen, wetroom, laundry room, and all of the dorm rooms (obviously) including player dorm room.

Dorms are away from the main high school some distance, and will be accessible through a trail through the woods surrounding Takayama. The school and dorms will be contained in one level, so no fast travel / teleport. We're hoping to have a ridable bicycle soon, and will definitely have one for the game's initial release, mainly intended for the trip to and from dorms. 

Player dorm room will have openable drawers and shelves for storage, since we have quite an ambitious trophy / collectable system planned. We're hoping to have the entire dorm room as a persistent save volume thing, so that any props you take or collectables and trophies will stay in place in your dorm. Much like in Fitting Room, player will be able to pin up posters and photos on their pin board (or on any surface), including posters / photos using files loaded from your harddrive, so that player can put up their embarrassing anime poster that they could never put up in their real room.

All of the dorm rooms will have a balcony and openable doors.

A working aircon system.

And physics based swivel chairs.

Just for maximum immersion / interactivity in VR. 

We were planning on releasing a new VR-ADV test this month with community suggested improvements. But since we didn't get too much feedback, only a few improvements have been made and it doesn't justify a build on its own. So we're planning instead to release a playable (early WIP) build of the Dormitory, and we'll throw the improved VR-ADV in there along with an NPC. 

The playable build won't contain any of the sub-environments just yet, but it will include both explorable buildings and the player's dormitory (minus the interactive furniture for now) to give a preview of what's to come. We're making fast progress, so we're on track for a build release at the end of Jan, but if we're delayed a little, it should be very early Feb instead. VR and non-VR will be supported.

Thanks everyone for the support so far!

<3 Devs