Chapter 3 Dev Update - Smooth Sailing

It's been a week or two, so I figured I'd let everyone know where Chapter 3 stands as of today.

Art, as always, is the long-pole item for us.   We're learning the hard way that the yacht itself is a poorly-designed asset with wayyyy too high of a polygon count to take for granted.  We're playing with some scene optimizer tools to reduce render times for future content, but some of these scenes were taking nearly two hours each to burn.

Fortunately, we're past that now and into the meat of the chapter.   For those of you who have been waiting patiently, I'll try to give a little preview of what to expect.

• We will see how Jaye and Mallory adjust to each other.
• It will be impossible to get all points for both primary co-protags due to path branching.
• We'll meet new female characters who will recur as the story moves forward.
• We'll uncover a little more of what Sarah was up to before her untimely death.
• We'll get another dose of Hatchet Body Spray.
• Save naming will be coming to 0.4

All primary characters have undergone a bit of a facelift for 0.4 as well, thanks in no small part to Mr. Vargas.   

Right now, Chapter 3 is tracking to be our largest update yet, and by that metric, we're currently running about one week behind schedule.   Our hope is that the remaining scenes require less-complex posing, so we'll be able to make up the time and still hit our target.

Check back for more updates as we get closer to launch day.

Also, we'd like to thank Lewd Gamer's Paradise for featuring us as Dev of the Week for the week of June 6, and LewdPixels for featuring us as "Best New Adult Games of 2021" on their website!

As always, we are grateful to our patrons and everyone who spreads the word, finds bugs, and offers feedback for our little project.   We look forward to keeping the momentum going with Chapter 3!