Corporate Development Memo (1/10/2021!)

TO: My lovely Patrons and everyone else (public post)

FROM: Grym Gudinna

SUBJECT: Karlsson's Gambit 0.4 Update

Hi everyone!  I officially hit 2 months working on the 0.4 update!  I like to do a public post once in a while, but this means no fun pictures can be posted, but I will make sure to have something for you Patrons this week!  The poll for the $1400 goal scene is going really well, and I will release the next two polls (2 person and 7 person fantasy voting scenes) this week or at the latest one early next week.  I have to admit that a few of you came up with some awesome ideas!  I like a few so much that I wonder if I can tweak them somehow for the real game down the road!  It's sad only one will win!  

I have been looking over all of the monthly bonus images from the start -- I think it's well over 70-75+ total renders or more now!  I hope you have all enjoyed them!

The new computer is getting a little easier for me now, and my interior design business has been pretty busy this week.  Even so, I've managed to finish the sub and dom branches and am now deep into the main tree trunk plot again.  From this point, both pass cross with some deviations and then split again afterwards towards the endings of 0.4.  Right now, the ranks are highly dependent on your dom/sub choices, but this will change later, so rank will not always correlate perfectly to sub/dom forever.  

I haven't technically done my Sunday workload yet, but it's small and I am 99% sure this can be included with weekly totals.

Weekly Progress: (1/4/2021 to 1/11/2021): 111 renders, 4,200 words

Tess: 90 renders, 4,200 words

Anais: 21 renders

Updated Overall 0.4 Progress: 677 renders, 22,400 words

This is officially a tad longer than 0.2 with renders and just a tad short with words (less exposition than 0.2), and it took me about a week faster to get here than it did with 0.2.  For reference, my biggest prior update was 0.3, which had 992 renders and 34,000 words.  If I did roughly 100 renders a week going forward, you can kind of see the math to get to that size, although I tend to go much faster the last two weeks if I can manage my design work ok.  (not sure yet)  Plus, this time around I might have a little help, hooray!  She has a little more interest than even I in hitting the next page goal with 0.4, haha!  But it really would speed up progress I think, etc.  

I will probably do an update next weekend talking about the possible scope of 0.4, and what is kind of left to write/render/edit, etc.  I should know a lot more on that after finishing about three more big scenes.  

I will also in fact be using the MILFish looking female that won the character poll (I think it was number 5) -- link is HERE assuming it renders well as you never know until you try.  It is an older model too, so have to be sure.  I am also likely to use the second place winner for someone else because I really like her too (or backup if above fails to look good).  This winning character is the 6th member of the Board of Directors of The Karlsson Group, and mother of one of the four sisters.

As for render speed with new computer, it's definitely faster but sometimes I am doing similar individual render times from the prior computer because for example I have done one scene with seven characters in same room (not possible with old card) but this does slow down overall speed.  Even so, overall, it's definitely faster, but not light years faster except for individual renders that could fit on old computer or reasonably close, etc.  I'm really happy with it, and again, it was all thanks to all of you Patrons.  I am still not using any of the pledges here for anything but the game and once a week Sunday dinners with Anais.  Over time, if I save up again, I may even try and get a second card to help with speed even more, etc.  I will look at further things to improve the game as well, etc.

Thank you so much, and I hope 2021 treats everyone great!