Project Direction and Progress

Happy New Year, everyone. I'm sorry it's been so long since you heard from me. I'm kind of done explaining my mental state and circumstances, I kind of just want to focus on getting updates done and re-earning your trust and support. If you need the update, things have done a major turnaround for me recently and I'm back to work five days a week. So, without further ado, here's where we're at.

There is an update currently waiting on a last couple things and a little bit of polish, that should be out for backers, by next Wednesday at the latest. It features the official addition of Brigandine de Mont-Fleur to the harem, the first of the endgame quests, an explorable (if currently a little bare) province of Inferirieux, the dwarven kingdom to the west of the Middle Kingdom, and a number of sex scenes, both re-written and new. Brigandine won't be fully implemented as a harem girl just yet, that may have to wait for new update, but she is a functional party member, she has a intro sex scene, and I'm going to try to get some stuff like her gift process and her sex menu done before release day.

Overall, the game is mostly done, as you know. The majority of the main story quests are finished, most of the non-relationship-related side content, and I'm happy with all the mechanical systems like the relationships, furniture, etc. What is not done? Art is our bugbear as usual. The majority of the relationship quests still need doing, as does all of our planned postgame content. There are a handful of raw ends in the game that still need finishing (the infamous casino sidequest among them) as well.

We *might* end up cutting some of the extraneous sex scenes, such as the werewolf, the river nymph, Evanie's maid, etc. None of the sex scenes for the core harem and those that are important to the main story are going to get cut. This is a measure to slice some of the bloat off the game, and focus down on our core cast of great characters, which is still a pretty big harem.

I'm working on a rough timeline of when the game can be completed by. Obviously, before I'm willing to guarantee anything, I have to prove to all of us that I can still work consistently at my former pace, but I'm hoping that the main story quests will be done by summertime, and from there it'll be on to the postgame content and love quests. I'm also going to try to go back to weekly update posts, every Wednesday, but it might be a bit shaky before that becomes a habit again.

In general things are better now than they've been since the pandemic started. Wish us luck, and thank you for all your support so far.

I'll check back Friday to answer any questions that get commented on this post.