Progress Report

Heya!

Wow, what a week! I haven't been this productive in ages. I usually spend the first week after a release doing community management (posting about the game in as many places as I can, talking to people, answering questions, etc.) and laying a plan for the coming month's content. This time the plan came together in less than a day, allowing me to charge full steam ahead.

But enough about that! It's time to announce the topic of version 0.19.0 of Long Live the Princess.

This version will focus on Evelyn. Yeah, I know. I know it's felt like ages for most of you since we last visited her. For me, it feels like yesterday. Turns out it's been over a year. The last version dedicated to her (outside of her night scene) was 0.6.0! Yeah, time sure flies.

As usual, I don't want to talk too much about content I haven't started on or finished yet. However, I don't think there's any harm in pointing out that my primary goal for Evelyn's content this month is to add her dark secret and implement the most important parts of her romance path (plus some seriously cool extra stuff if I have time, which I think I will).

Instead of going into details, I'll just let the patch notes for stuff that I've finished during the past week speak for themselves:

• Two new repeatable scenes for when you spend time with Evelyn.
• Expanded Evelyn's night scene with alternate renders for new undress state.
• Major overhaul of the way Evelyn's renders are selected behind the scenes, improving many transitions and making it easier to add new poses. 
• Added variation images for when Evelyn speaks, making conversations with her work the same as with the other girls.
• All existing conversations with Evelyn in the home location updated to use the new visuals.
• Like with Nell, rejecting Primrose now awards a point of Charisma. This is retroactive. You will still receive Charisma for accepting their advances.
• Various tweaks and fixes.

Obviously, this is just what I've added in one week. I still have roughly 3 and a half weeks to add more stuff. 

The image folder for 0.19.0 currently counts 142 new renders. I think it's safe to say at this point that this version will be the largest in terms of renders, by a wide margin. The previous record was held by 0.11.0, which had 155 renders. I won't have any problems going past that number.

So that's it for now. I'm about to start working on the central part of Evelyn's dark secret, which is going to have a bit of a different style to it than you're used to. But we'll talk more about that next week.

Until next time!