Progress Report

Or even wilder, a big enhancement like one to character’s becoming aware of Belle. Perhaps being able to see Belle for a short time, interacting with her (my vote would be an appropriate size adjust and an Evelyn, MC, Belle threesome) then the next day again not being able to see/hear her bit knowing she exists. I mean the townsfolk probably know there are fey in dose (sic) woods!

robertash

To address the anniversary celebration: how about a one-off sex scene. Perhaps the woman at the Manor joining in?

robertash

It's just an optional thing. You don't have to do it if you don't want to.

Not sure if the ‘remove Contraceptive’ is intended as a major change in the games direction. Just thought I’d comment after seeing a note above. Personally I have no interest in a pregnancy route. (I know there are folks that really like that option.)I hope there is be further discussion if that might be a large portion of the games future.

robertash

OH THANK GOD

Dubsington

Thanks, that makes it clearer. In one path Evelyn is gone and some she is still around. In two Primrose is girlfriend and other she is not. That is what causes uncertainty in my mind. I very much enjoy your work and am a big fan of Belle in the game.

Geo

It's impossible to know without knowing the full situation in your playthrough and where you are, and that's a project in itself to explain. Is Evelyn even around in your game? The whole thing starts with eating lunch with her.

I have played through several times but then saw the walkthrough and realized I missed something. Going back to some of the saves and then trying to get that event has proven unsuccessful. Hence the question, not try to show any spoilers

Geo

Have been through all several times and then saw the walkthrough. That is when the family records came to my attention that I missed something. Went back to through saves but am not finding any change. Hence the question. Not trying to give any spoilers.

Geo

Thank you!

Is also clear you did something most artists in this field don't. You set up a plan and worked out all your arcs and timelines at very start. While you listen to feedback you always keep the plan in mind and this is one of biggest reasons your game stands head and shoulders above other sandbox games in this genre.

Phillip Scott

Primrose starts it, but that assumes you've done what triggers Primrose's dialogue about this. It sounds like you're using a walkthrough since you're jumping ahead of yourself here. If this happens, instead try to focus on what you've been told in the game itself.

enjoying the update a lot, great work. Question: what starts the trigger for family records. Have been going to library but option is not there.

Geo

That would certainly be one way to go about it. :P

Let's celebrate without having any usable ideas and/or suggestions HOW to celebrate with game-related content !👦🏻??👸🏻 ...

Just a naughty boy

It wouldn't really make sense for her to notice that she's pregnant within the scope of this game's story, so she wouldn't figure it out until it's too late. Not much point adding that feature then. :)

Great job with your work.

Braxsis

We got the spell that makes MC fertile, so for an anniversary how about Evelyn tell MC she's preg. No change will need to be done to her appearance for a while but she could have morning sickness and be more horny. Everyone love a sneak attack.

Braxsis

The hardest part of being an artist of any kind is learning to identify the correct moment to put down the pen and move on.

LOL! Well of course *you* see room for improvement :) In my experience, every artist under about forty-five or fifty cringes at the sight of last year's work (and even the older guys if they are new to the medium). But as the guy who is buying the stuff, I don't notice a deficiency. I don't click around the map and think "Oh jesus, he really needs to re-do *this* scene", which is something I definitely think in other games. It's nice!

Dubsington

Thank you! I appreciate the compliment, though I see tons of problems in the earlier renders and models myself. But most of all, it's the early animations that really suffer from me not knowing enough about what I was doing. What I believe separates my stuff from some of the others you compare to is that I suspect a lot of them didn't really invest the time that was needed early on and probably only did one pass on the renders before they moved on to the next ones. I kept tweaking and tweaking those early renders, changing things slightly and rendering them all over again only to do it yet again afterward. I probably went through five different iterations of the scene when you wake up in the tutorial, and I still want to go back and fix both the visuals and the writing in it since neither matches what I've done later. Still, once you get out of the tutorial, I feel like the quality is consistent enough not to bother me (outside of the animations). I'm probably just going to pull the whole tutorial up with the roots at some point and redo it, which might bother some people since I'm likely to remove or tweak some of those unavailable actions in it too.

So something I've been meaning to comment on.... Normally, I'd say it's not the worst thing when the high-demand scenes don't get created for a long time into the life cycle of a project, especially with a creator's first game. There is often a noticeable quality improvement in renders as the project chugs along. (I can think of several games where the main girl is considerably less attractive than the late-game side girls, simply because the artist had a couple years more experience at that point and pausing the whole game for months and redoing a few hundred renders isn't realistic.) In your case, this just isn't very true. Your day one stuff was really good, and while the scenes and settings have gotten more ambitious (some of the Fey stuff comes to mind) the general quality level has remained excellent all along. You obviously knew what you were doing at the start of this thing and had a lot more of a plan than your average Patreon smut-peddler. I don't really have any profound message here, just making a general observation and throwing a kudos your way.

Dubsington

If you haven't played the current version, you'll get >spoilered< by this blog, right 🙄?! But if you play the game, you get >spoiled< 🥰💘Congratulations for the progress and on the anniversary, Belle ♛😍!

Just a naughty boy

This isn't a sprite-based 2D game. Replacing costumes is an enormous effort and would require rendering each image once for each separate costume. Considering renders can take as much as 2 hours each, it quickly becomes apparent why I won't do more of it. Spending time and effort on this would be rather counterproductive.

To celebrate the anniversary how about some different clothes for bell and the girls ?? Ik it might be a little too complicated or time consuming but just something more than just nude, more like lingerie sold by a certain seamstress ??? Sense it is her update anyway.... why not open up underwear to buy for the girls from her like you do bell

Patch