End of August Update

Lots to talk about. First off, the latest dev-build has been released. See the discord for details on it as the changelog is extensive and there are some important notes about incomplete scenarios within the update.

So, let's get into what this update contains and where I plan to go from here.

The update expands into the Pool area, finally, as well as introducing a couple new characters and familiar old faces, namely Stephanie. Within the pool there are nearly complete interactions for Stephanie, Joanne, and Gwen. There is a partially complete series of scenes for Olivia, as well. Planned scenes for Teresa and Tina are forthcoming. Eventually, I would like to include unique scenes for the attached Gym section. Right now, Iris and Rene are the only ones I plan on including gym scenes for. This is where Rene's training scenes that I've hinted at before will take place.

All of this has taken a LOT of time to do over the last two months. Turns out, rendering all new scenes, outfits, and interactions took much more time than expected. Even so, I was able to turn out a bunch of renders in a timely manner that I feel happy about. A lot of these shots were a bit more ambitious as they included a lot of aspects which greatly increased render times, namely refraction of water and sweat.

So, here's the plan. I need to wrap up the aforementioned scenes and get some more playtesting done. Hopefully y'all can help me with the latter! This means providing some satisfactory endings for the Gwen, Joanne, Stephanie, and Olivia pool scenes. Stephanie also has an unfinished scene on the Veranda that needs resolution. She can be found there alongside Joanne in the afternoon after you meet her in the pool.

This is all a lot of work. I am intentionally pushing myself to try and create as much new content as I can. This has led to a bit of burnout on my end, not gonna lie, but now we have some new areas to explore and add scenes too. I still have such a long list of things I want to do before releasing a public alpha. So, after getting through the scenes listed above, I'm going to pick through the following scenes and try to add a few of these before calling it and just releasing a public alpha.

• The old Anna and the mousehole scene from Quest where she's lying in the grass.

• Rene and Iris's Gym scenes.

• Tina's kidnapping sequence (Very likely to be pushed back as this one is very involved)

• Nemara and Rene at the bar with the Bartopia group (Jacuzzi in the three basin)

  
  Those are the scenes I had hoped to be farther along with but have not gotten there, yet. We will have to see how bug-testing and wrapping up the currently unfinished scenes goes with this current dev-build. Expect some rapid fire releases over the next couple weeks as I go through fixing things.
  
  As for the gallery. I am announcing now that I will resume doing the livestream drawing for Characters and Scenarios this Monday at 9PM EST. I fell behind schedule with the last gallery, but now that it's released I am still intent on doing the second gallery of the month before the end of August.
  
  I know I say it a lot, but thank you all so much. This update has been a doozey and I know I amped a lot of you up with the previews. So thank you for your support and patience.