A Look Ahead

Greetings!

A big thank you to everyone who participated in the previous poll and the currently running one! You'll probably meet all the characters I listed in the poll again, but this info helps me decide how much time to allocate to each. I'm a little surprised Ana's quest is beating out Val's quest right now, but I'm sure Ana appreciates the love!

I've been at work on 0.9 and subsequent releases, and I wanted to give you a little peek at the roadmap I have so far.

I'm trying very hard to limit the size and scope of each release so they won't take as long to develop as the more recent ones. Since my intent is to do 1 H-scene per release from here on out, smaller releases will also begin tilting the H-scene/playable content ratio back in a more fappable direction. The Proteus Effect was never intended to be primarily a porn delivery vehicle, but I would like to see a bit more of it in the game overall - and I suspect most of you would, too!

In order to keep the releases smaller, I've decided to spread the events in the Military District over 2 releases - 0.9 and 0.10. My plans for 0.9 are to:

• Introduce a new party member
• Introduce the Military District itself
• Implement the transmogrification and character view features

Current plans are for the release to contain 4-ish quests and 1 H-scene. Alex and Ana will make a little progress on their overall goal, but there won't be much involving The Hell in 0.9, as that's intended to be the focus of 0.10. Two of the quests will involve the new party member, one will move Alex and Ana a bit closer to getting a group together, and 1 - 2 will be optional sidequests.

The Military District will also have an arena; you'll be able to explore the building in 0.9 (there's stuff there other than the arena itself), but I don't know whether I'll include much - if any - arena combat in this release. The combat there will be completely optional, just in case combat isn't your thing, but it will eventually give some interesting rewards.

Aside from planning, this week I've been working on mapping and writing. As I'd said in a previous post, for this release cycle, I'm going to finish the writing/eventing first and move on to H-scene and plugin work later. Writing and mapping work will continue this coming week, and my goal is to finish mapping for the military district and have at least one of the quests finished.

That's all for this week. Thank you for your support!