Corporate Development Memo 12/8/2024

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the late post -- I asked my fiance to wake me up in 5-6 hours but he let me sleep and I ended hibernating for almost 12 hours! I guess I needed some rest -- I was up very late last night working on the game.

I am happy to report I am basically about 99% done with content -- I am working on the very last dom scene I want to include and I definitely will be done soon.

On the sub side, I am pretty far into editing. I have now had two non-sub players test the entire path a few times and gotten feedback. For over 2,100 images, I have a list of about 100 corrections for renders, which is close to my typical percentage (5%). I am having two very high subs (these players are good for more specific vibe checks) test starting tomorrow and Tuesday.

When I finish the dom scene, I will likely post a short message here that all content is functionally done and that I am moving to edit only now. I may finish editing the sub side very very soon so that would leave me solely focused on the dom side to close out. When this happens, I will be trying to give a rough estimate of the Test Release Version.

Bottom line -- it's CLOSE. (not worried about this month at all, just when) I think I will say something on it this week. On the Test Version -- I will likely leave out one sub scene and maybe 1-2 dom scenes. (Last update I think I did 1/1 for each side) I have run into very few errors on the sub side editing, so that's really been nice so far. I had to make one major change on a prior flag which was very limiting on a path for the character Claudia (I basically made it easier for her to trigger this choice for more players since it was very hard to get before my edit). But mostly for everything else, it's kind of working as intended.

The Test Version - what may or may not entirely be in there all the way - are usually 1-3 scenes, music, animations, and an outro. I will likely get in music, but I always say that just in case I run into tons of fixes.   

Thank you for your patience all - it's almost done now! I basically made this update about 800-900 renders larger than my estimate a few months ago, and I am forcing myself to basically stop to get this out. This is entirely my fault and as I said prior -- I am going to make the next update faster/shorter as this size is a bit overwhelming for me to edit all at once. So I'll address that moving forward.

I would prefer not to preview image this scene I am doing, and I really appreciate everyone and hope you all have a great week!