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Mind Drop #52 (10/28/2022)

Added 2022-10-28 13:49:58 +0000 UTC

Hello everyone!
We do apologize for this Mind Drop being a few days behind. We were taking our time to decide when our next release day would be so we could share it here.

Next Release:

We have decided that we will release a decently large update on November 19th.

Our original plan was to release only up to the end of the exhibition game but after further consideration we've decided that the overall experience would be much improved if we included the rest of Day 32 and up to them leaving to catch their flight.

There will be more info about exact update size in the next Mind Drop on Nov 9th.

Future updates:

We'd also like to take a moment to say that Day 32 wasn't originally going to be as long as it is. That's due to many of the scenes being rearranged for the month 1 rework.

Due to this, we just want to give a heads up that the individual days of days 33-38 are far shorter than 32 is.

We do expect late November to have the first release of Day 33 as we don't expect to have to change much about it as is.

And speaking of changing things...

Month 1 rework:

There was some confusion over what we were talking about when we mentioned there would be a rework.
So to quickly go over some of the planned changes.

The month 1 rework will take the events of Days 1-9 and change the timeline to Days 1-31.
This includes brand new renders and animations for almost all of it.
There will also be an intro sequence that will quickly go through the MC's life after he moves in with Azel.

The story is mostly the same though there will be changes to some backstories as well as a few events that were a little too out there. There will also be a handful of new characters (Most of which have already been met in the current update.)

We also plan to include an in-game character sheet that updates as the story progresses as well as an in-game schedule.

Many have asked about if the rework will introduce sounds/music into the game and all we can say on that right now is that we're looking into it but nothing is currently planned.

Side Content:

(Birthday Renders have not been posted yet due to us deciding to go ahead and catch up completely on them. So July-October will be posted all at once. Braindrop has posted a few on Discord and those will be include at the bottom of this post as well as a new one.)

South America was chosen as the continent for the next Rachael client. The next poll will be choosing where from in South America and that poll will be taking place on November 1st. (All Star+)

We will be holding a poll for who the next DITLO will be focused on. This will take place on November 10th. (Sixth Man+)

The first truly Alpha build for the MVP tier will be posted sometime next week. Keep in mind these are small builds that do not have proper start/end points and may include bugs / typos.

For all Hall of Fame pledgers, please send your custom request to us in a DM!

Talking about the tier changes:

Some people were upset with the changes that we made.
Our goal was to have incentives for the tiers that made sense with how we intend to update the game in the future while including fun side content.

(DITLO's were changed to where Bench Warmer+ will receive it, just after a few weeks.)

The most notable changes that were criticized were the inclusions of the MVP and HoF tiers.

While we understand that the optics behind adding those tiers while still trying to rebuild our reputation can look sketchy, we had planned on adding those tiers for a while and we did initially plan to not include them until Days 32-38 were finished.

The decision to go ahead and include them was mainly due to Braindrop wanting a way to have very rapid releases that don't have the expectation of being "finished".
While we do not intend for these builds to have a schedule or be weekly, Braindrop misses the days of him being able to release whatever he's worked on and still feel like he can go back and alter things without fucking up saves or causing tons of confusion.
Basically we feel that any release we have now has the expectation of being completely finished and set in stone and we feel the best way to have something that changes that was to have an entirely new tier with an entirely new build name.

And as far as HoF goes, it's as simple as customs are the #1 thing we are asked about. It has to go in a higher tier as we do not want a ton of requests every month as they take time to make.
If the customs ever become too much, we may disable the tier as we catch up on requests before activating it again.

(Also if you are MVP tier+ and do not wish to have your name included in the credits or wish to include a different name. Please DM us and let us know!)

That's all we have to share for this week!
We appreciate all of the kind words and support you've shown us over all of this time.
If you have any questions feel free to ask!

-Mackenzie

oh, and here are those Birthday Renders that were mentioned earlier.