News and updates

I have been super busy with my real job lately, but here are some things that might interest you all.

* Deadlines come and go, but 0.2 should be out next weekend (1.9 - 2.9) when I have enough time to finish all pending tasks and give it a final test run/read.

* I'll temporarily suspend my campaign again near the end of this month, so you should not be billed for this month. Again, mostly for tax reasons but I haven't really posted that much Patreon content either, so I don't feel it would be fair.

* One of the problems I have with posting new image content to Patreon is that I usually finalize and batch render all final images right before a release. This makes it a bit difficult to publish them evenly during each month. I'll see if I can improve this next month. Most 0.2 renders are now ready, so I might be posting them until 0.2 is out for everyone.

* Blender 2.8 release date got pushed to early 2019, although the beta should be out much earlier. Almost makes me feel better about my time estimates. So, why was this relevant again? It's because Blender 2.8 will have a new, realtime EEVEE renderer which would make rendering animations much faster (at the price of some loss in quality). Still, I'm playing around with the alpha build, and if it gets stable enough I can see myself using it to render some animations.

* You can soon vote which girl should have her route done next. I have spent a lot of time optimizing my content pipeline and these two updates have (hopefully) made me a lot better in estimating the time required for new updates. So I would estimate that the next update (0.3) should ready in early/mid October (a little over a month from now). Hopefully less, but I have never been right about that yet... And again, that update should contain a new, full route. I prefer to make bigger updates with more content rather than smaller and faster updates, even though the latter approach might keep keep my fans a bit more excited. But then again, I'm doing this mostly for fun.