Update 15 Roadmap

Hey everybody!

Now that Update 14 is out and a lot of people have played it, it's time to keep on rolling and looking forward to the next update. First, let me talk a little about how Update 14 and the Premium Edition did.

I've been very happy with how the game has sold, both on Steam and on Itch.io. And the Patreon keeps growing as well, so thank you all for supporting me here. Update 14 and the Premium Edition were both a massive success, in my eyes. It sold very well and it seems like people generally like it also.

I heard from a few people that they didn't like the new UI. That's to be expected when there's any massive change like this, but I think most of my players agreed with me that it streamlines the game a lot, removes a lot of needless clicking, and makes it easier to see what options you have available to you. All of these things outweigh any bad things about it, in my opinion. I won't be reversing the UI change.

And of course, the main story moved forward a bit, and a few of our characters had some pretty massive things happen in their personal stories as well. I hope you enjoyed all of that. Brandi's scene, in particular, is one that I've had in my head since I wrote the first outline of this game back in early 2020. It was really nice to see it finally come to fruition and see people's reaction to it.

Kendra has a scene like that in Update 15. One that I've had in my head for years that I can't wait to see reactions to. So, let's talk about Update 15 a bit.

Update 15 Content

Every update, I tell myself, "Okay, the next one is going to be a little smaller." But somehow they just keep getting bigger and bigger. Last update was the biggest update that I've ever made. Update 15 is about 10% bigger. I tried my best to cut things out, move things around, and reduce it, so that I could release it in the window that I wanted to release it, but I could not edit it down any more than this.

So here's the numbers:

9 Major Scenes - These are scenes that advance a character's story. The biggest ones this update are for Lisa, Suzy, Kendra, Adrian, Gertrude, and Bai - though several other characters have a major scene as well.

21 Repeatable Sex Scenes - Not quite as many as last update. There are still quite a bit here

8 Dates - No new date locations this time, but adding different dates for different characters. Also, what I think might be the cutest date in the game so far.

20 Conversations - This is pretty much the norm. 20 new conversations every update. I have all of these planned out this time too, so don't need any suggestions.

11 New Functions - I'm adding Freesex options for several characters this update. This is where you have the buttons on the screen that let you switch positions and stuff. I've been testing the grounds with them and it seems that most people like them, as they let you see several different sex scenes during one date, instead of having to repeat dates over and over to see them all. Besides the freesex options, some of the other functions added this update are getting to stay the night with characters that you haven't been able to before and getting to take home a character that you haven't before, among a couple of other things.

6 New Characters - Reminder that these aren't new major characters with full stories. The 20 love interests in the game are all there will be. These are just new character models that I have to make for side characters. One is a side character that is getting a bit of a remodel, because they have more screen-time in this update.

6 New Sets - We have a few new locations this update. Some of these are going to be pretty tough to set up correctly. The only one that I can tell you about is that the Arcade location is getting a bit of an expansion to include a side room. The others locations are all very spoilery.

27 New Clothes - I might have gone a little overboard here lol. Characters get new clothing options for new dates and also for the story scenes that they're in though. There's quite a few different looks here. Also, I've included the 8 new clothing options that will be the Premium/Patron version only. I'll talk more about that bonus content at the end of this.

2 New Voices - I did a much better job of taking everything into account this update, including adding voices to the game. I decided I wanted to add two voices to the game this time. I don't want to reveal who they are just yet, but one of the actresses has already been hired and I'm currently looking for the right person for the other.

672 Images - Lots of renders, of course. There always is. About 5% more than last update, which was the most I've ever done.

54 Animations - A little bit more than last update. I've gotten much better and faster at making good animations though, thanks to some new tricks I've learned. I've been way happier with animating lately and I think my newer animations are looking so much better than the old ones.

Other content that I hope to fit in - If I finish early, I really want to redo some of the character menus to better match the new Polaroid UI.

Also, I have set a week aside to work on improving old images and animations. I want to keep making that early stuff look a little better.

Premium/Patron Edition Bonus Content

With every new update, I'm going to be adding a bit more bonus content that is exclusive to the Patreon and Premium editions. This update is going to have quite a bit of bonus content, including

New Cafe Chat - These are the little chats that you have with women in the school cafe. Right now, there are only 3 and I had planned on adding more, but just hadn't gotten around to it. I'm adding a new one in this update, and it's a pretty good one, I think.

New Side-Story Scene - I can't talk about this one too much without going into spoilers, but it's something that a small minority of people have asked me for, and I don't know how much others are going to be interested in it. But I think it's a very good scene and it expands on a side character a bit.

New dual-date - Right now, you can take Tammy and Suzy on a dual date, because of course they come together, but I'm going to be adding another dual date here with two other characters, where you'll be able to hang out with them together if you've been romancing them both, along with a little after-date activities as well. Should be a fun time.

8 new clothing options - 8 characters are getting new clothing options for their different dates as well.

Release

Thanks to having a much better outline this update, and being quite a bit ahead of where I usually am in the release schedule, I can kinda give a pretty good window of when the next update is going to release, already.

I'm tentatively planning on releasing the update to patrons on either June 30th or July 7th. I'm going to try to push myself to get the June release date, because I really wanted this update to release in June, but right now my schedule is estimating that I won't finish in time for that. We will see, schedule!

I'll give you guys some more firm release dates as we get closer, but don't expect it until at least June.

Final Thoughts

Phew! That's a lot to talk about! 

I've actually been working on Update 15 for almost a month at this point. I've kinda got this whole release schedule thing down now and as soon as I sent the previous update off to Alpha testers, I was working on Update 15.

I'm really excited about Update 15. There's some fun stuff happening in it and a lot of new sexy content as well. There are a couple of scenes that I'm dreading making. Kendra's in particular is going to likely be the hardest scene I've ever done, from a technical level. But I've been improving my skills and I think I can do it. 

As always, thank you all for supporting me and the game. These last couple of weeks with the release have been so exciting and life-changing. I'm always so appreciative of everything that you all and this game have given me. Love you all so much.