Dev Update: Beta 0.1h Complete - Final Sprint!

Great news!   Last week, as promised Beta 0.1h was released to beta testers, and the response has been very positive!

Kentyrr and I are working diligently on the final content update for the 0.1 release with one of three scenes fully rendered and dialogue written through to the end.

Music and sound has been layered in through the existing content, and that's surprisingly proven to be the most challenging aspect of development for me yet.

Sound and music files are usually far too loud by default to be used in Ren'Py, even with the volume slider at the player's disposal.   

Not only that, calibrating sound effects against the background music is an entirely subjective process, and sound setups vary so wildly among players, even Kentyrr and I have differences of opinion on what the appropriate levels for different effects should be since we have different speakers and headphones.  

That said even as the writer, I have found myself shocked on occasion at how much more emotion music can pack into a scene.

As the story has progressed, we see (above) our MC and Jaye are older now, and all of our future artwork depicts them both as adults.   Read into that what you will.

Remaining work centers on the climax of the intro, along with our first full-blown lewd scene.   We continue to aim for a late September 0.1 release.

Thank you all once again for your early patronage.   While we never dared to hope we'd have believers before we had a product out the door, the outpouring of support from all of you has absolutely given Kentyrr and I the confidence to continue.

While we both spend a minimum of 10 hours a day on this project, my GPU spends significantly more.   Toward the end of September, we hope to have 4x 3090 GPUs between us, for a grand total of 41,984 rendering CUDA cores for iRay.   That is literally 10x our current rendering power.  

Hopefully this will mean that posing becomes our single biggest time investment after the intro.

We're very excited to show you all what we've done.   Our current beta testers are:

Ugulugulu

PandaDrummer

Hank Rockwell

King4Bear

Xor

Feel free to ask them anything you like about what they've seen so far, but they won't be sharing spoilers.

One other note:  Every current patron, regardless of tier, will always have an honored spot in the credits as a "Pre-Release" patron, which will scroll before high-tier patrons post-release.   

Continue to check the Previews channel on Discord for sneak peeks of imagery and music from our game!