Dev Update #53

Hi everyone, let's talk about E4.

I've done a lot this week and animations are pretty much done but I'm still very far behind schedule. I really appreciate your patience and support so I want to be as transparent as possible in this update. The TLDR is that I'm expecting to publish E4 in July. I know that's a long time and I'm sorry about that.

Coming into 2025 I said I would stop giving forecasts until I was very close to finishing but I owe you an estimate here because of how long E4 will take in comparison to other episodes. With E4, there are a lot of areas I'm trying to improve at once which have slowed me down.

These things include:

• New main menu

• More audio

• More detailed and longer animations

• More care into lighting

• More care into Lust values and requirements

• Texting with sending pics

• Character adjustments (Naomi etc)

• New vaginas for all 18 main girls

• Several new HaremWars features

• Possible new gameplay mechanic for certain parties

I don't want to make excuses, I just want to be transparent. I didn't expect E4 to take this long in January but with everything I'm trying to add above (not to mention the android version, missing bios etc) it's gone slower than I'd like. As an idea for the future, the episodes that I expect will take the longest to produce are:

1) E21 (final ever episode)

2) E14 (season 2 finale)

3) E7 (season 1 finale)

4) E4 (lots of improvements + characters)

It's a shame that E4 makes that list but I hope you can see why. E4 animations have taken me so long to do in particular because I've been testing out a lot of new tools that will help with E4 animations and beyond. I wouldn't say there's a massive quality increase in E4 vs E3 animations, but there's a massive increase in my knowledge and skill set and that's allowing me to be more ambitious in places. To give you an idea - the longest E4 animation is 19 seconds and the longest E1-3 animation was 9 seconds. Some stills in e4 will also be challenging due to a highly populated party scene.

Anyway, I don't want to yap on I just wanted to give you an honest picture of where I am. I didn't expect that I would be changing so many small things E3->E4 but here we are. I just need to fix a few animations but I'm moving onto the still renders and working as hard as I can. Thank you so much for your support, it really means a lot - especially in this period between episodes.

Hope you all have a great week!