Early Access Release 0.1504 - (Very) Partial Nozomi Reversal Path

Hey, cheesecake gang! I'm back again with the latest update of Penlight that's absolutely gonna...

Er, mildly disappoint you? I dunno, things haven't gone much to plan this dev period. First there was the additional update I did for last time that I felt was essential. That took about half a week out of the time I'd have used for this update. Then I suffered a few personal setbacks that took me out of development for about another week, and then good old writer's block took care of the rest ^^; So yes, I'm sorry to say that there isn't much new to look at this time round. Still, in keeping with my commitments to put out early access builds twice a month, I'm going to show you my work and you're more than welcome to take a look if you want.

So as I mentioned last time, my intention was to work on probably the most requested path through the game that hadn't been written yet: The part during Nozomi's consent route where she gets to use the penlight on Kyou. The first scene I'd written for it before went down well with everyone, but after that I've found it extremely tough going. I've basically laid out the following couple of scenes with notes and some rough dialogue, and I'm considering how to proceed from there. 

What next, then? Spend the next couple weeks trying to get this path written to a conclusion or look for something else to write that I'm more in the groove for? I haven't decided yet, but at the very least there will be some art upgrades to show next time. The art budget for Penlight is determined entirely by your contributions now (for which I'm extremely grateful for, by the way!) and this month I'm hoping to get all the remaining sprite work completed. That would be Nozomi's second pose and basic sprites for the two supporting characters currently in the game (Hiroko's friend Kasumi and Nozomi's mom Atsuko).

At the very least that will be something to look forward to!

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What's New

• Expanded Nozomi's Consensual Reversal path. This time adding some provisional dialogue and notes for some scenes, and giving an option to loop back to the original path with just Kyou taking charge
• Made a couple of minor grammatical fixes and text changes to Nozomi's consent route
• Word count is now over 122,000
• Added the new paying patrons to the end-game credits
• Some other general typo/grammatical corrections