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Dev Diary #29: Progress Update June

Added 2018-07-09 11:16:26 +0000 UTC

A little late this time as we needed to get our page unsuspended after another review through Patreon content control, but here comes the monthly progress report.

First of all, we hit a milestone with Date Mode development, the base features are all in place and we released a small, very rough beta prototype thingy for qualifying patrons. From now on, it's mostly finishing the writing, balancing and polishing. We're happy to say that our plan to publically release a Date Mode Demo in the second half of 2018 seems to prove realistic.

As we are focused on that, we don't have the capacities to post as much new sexy content right now, but we try to keep up the variety nonetheless.

We have started to work on "Polly", which is a project name for a girl designed by "Prophet" tier patrons and higher through input and polls. We are in the idea phase for her right now and will soon start to work on her appearance which will lead to more non-background art stuff soon.

Other Art Updates

Mayu
- Cinema and park date backgrounds finished and posted after a poll between two possible sketches

Nikki
- Nikki was featured in the Soccer World Cup Special artwork

Alvah
- As she is unfortunately on hold for a while, we posted her wallpapers

Other Game Updates

- We refined the UI design for Date Mode to adjust it to the current status of development
- posted a video of the (so far) finished version of our internal Date Level Editor in action, especially showing the construction of event- & dialogue structures
- I started to implement the visual stuff into the Date Mode "skeleton", like a proper, animated textbox for dialogue as used in the X-Mode Demo and various feedback elements as the prototype is working, but pretty unsightly right now ;P

And that's what I'm gonna do the next few weeks: Adding everything that makes a game appealing while fine-tuning and possibly expanding the Date Mode mechanics while Cucu finishes the remaining artwork and works on the date itself with our new writer before building the rest of the date level.

We'll keep you posted :)

Have a good one!
x
Zanzo