Update - Emi and Mika outdoor kiss

tl;dr - PAT 0.2 is coming soon with voice acting for Shizu and Emi, I've been preparing for my holiday and I've been planning the January game release.

This week's image

This is a follow-up to a previous shot I showed of these two getting all exhibitionist in an alleyway. I'm posting this for the update this week since I can still say with confidence I have no idea when this scene would crop up in the game and it won't be for a while - this is kind of a "sketch" of an idea - I don't have a specific plan for it yet. I think I probably will put it in the game at some point, but for now it works as a teaser.

PAT 0.2 coming soon

I've been working on PAT 0.2 and it's almost ready; I'm still fixing up some stuff to do with the save and load system, though. In particular, I'm trying to make an option to get into the save and load menus during the free roaming parts of the game, which still isn't quite working. I can get you into the menu, but for some reason it won't save. I'll try to fix that or find a solution today.

Then, once that's done and tested, I'll be uploading the build soon after. The main new content features will be the voice acting for Emi and Shizu, although there will also be other little improvements and changes in there too. When I eventually release a public demo, 0.2 will be the version. It's the true "first day" release.

Preparing for my holiday

Just after Christmas I'm taking a holiday for a few weeks, so I've been preparing stuff for the break to come up on here. I've already set up a series of new PAL images featuring Iku and Fumi (and Kenji shows up too) in a new little scene that will play out in the updates. It's just something I made when I felt inclined to write up a little scene about them, so I thought you might enjoy it.

And yesterday I spent the whole damn day working on my traditional Xmas card to post for the season. I'm not sure it really looks like a whole day's work went into it, but hopefully you'll like it!

January's game release

So because of the holiday in particular I've had to think about what I'll be scheduling for January's update too. Based on what I've got relatively ready to go and what I'll have time to do later, I'm planning to add in Emi's first interactive sex scene as a bonus feature in the game - provided you've played through the story you'll be able to access it from the menu screen (although I'll remove that element after a while, it'll last for the January update). It won't be a big spoiler because it's a flashback scene and will be coming up in the course of normal gameplay pretty soon anyway.

I think I can make this happen reasonably easily because I've got a fair bit of the image and programming design done already and I plan to do a bit of writing on my holiday, so I can fill in some of those gaps while I'm travelling. It's done in a similar style to the interactive Shizu sex scene in the title sequence of PAT 0.1, but it has more interactive options, different angles and of course it won't be just done against a black backdrop.

What do you think of my plans? Do they sound okay? And do you like the image? Let me know in the comments!