Corporate Development Memo (10/16/2022)

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to avoid super spoiler renders, but I think these are fairly benign, the last two are actually from the upcoming sub poll set, but also a preview of a scene that only some sub Kane players will see during 0.7.  I am almost finished with the sub branches and moving to the main path soon, the dom path is much farther along and they are basically in the female pod training phase so to speak.

My current status for 0.7 is 1122 renders and 49,700 words.  I am almost hitting 50k words, which is getting fairly close towards the later scenes in the update.  I also am looking forward to focusing on just renders soon as they do go much faster when a lot of the script is mostly done and it's just polishing, and honestly...you tend to make a few tweaks to dialogue once you play test the images with music, etc.  But it's so much easier already having the script bones there so to speak.

I will do a massive public post at the start of November to kind of highlight a huge overview of everything crossing 4 months, so I apologize in advance if I send out a few already seen images.

I am reluctant to discuss a release date yet, but I will say that I actually have a target date internally that I believe I have a 60/40 shot of hitting and I can update this as I get a little farther along.  Let's just say I want to be celebratory for you all.

 The sub poll images should be out soon -- dom poll is almost done, and will work on those too.  Also, a last sub poll will be out this week.  After this, I will poll the Patrons on how to handle temporarily image sets as I talk about (likely in the huge public post but will do a separate poll privately for Patrons too) the time/work difference in doing what, etc.  So I want to leave this up to everyone in the fairest way possible.

I above all am always trying to be transparent and completely professional as I of course have been a Patron to other games -- some great, some solid, some meh, and some horrible -- so I think I've felt the gamut of emotions spending money on game developers.  I try to emulate the two or three best devs I have seen with communication.  I still think I haven't missed a weekly update since I started them a long time ago now...I'm actually just as proud of that as the game itself in some ways.  (Note I didn't say "great updates" as some weeks are meh, haha!)

Last minor note, 0.7 has a bit less pure choice compared to 0.6 because 0.8 will be very very very choice driven as hard forks will start to appear.  (meaning it's hard to turn back)  But, 0.7 has a lot of branching scenes based on earlier choices from prior updates so expect some different saves if you want to catch it all.

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As always, I say that I wish I had a lot more time to always work on the game for heavier hours, but I do work really, really, hard to try my best.  I sincerely appreciate the support!  I hope everyone has a great week!