Hey guys. Latest news here. So, all the work with the text and dialogues is finished. For a few days now, I've been putting everything together. Writing code, making transitions between scenes, etc. Basically, the whole game is almost ready. But, as usual, there were some problems.

Once again, I scolded myself for the early versions. I made the choice to ignore Nicole, which caused me to have to do two versions of scenes involving her throughout the game. Where she is and where she isn't. Not that it's hard, but it's time-consuming. Especially in updates where she's present a lot.

Next, I realized I screwed up the epilogues. I made 6 of them when I should have made 7. And that's a problem for one of the endings. On average, I have 60 renders and about 200 lines of text in one epilogue. But since making a new epilogue would take extra time, I decided, to release the update without that epilogue. Within a few weeks of release, I'll be adding a new version of the game with this epilogue. And maybe a few more minor additions, like a couple of extra animations, a small ending expansion.

Music. This is a big problem with my game. It's weird that in a game about rock band, there are no songs with lyrics. Ideally, I wanted to pick up a cool song with female vocals for the final event, but I just don't have time for it. The thing is, I really don't know much about licenses and copyright etc. I used to buy my tunes directly from composers. But when it comes to songs with lyrics, there is a different approach. You have to go to special sites with catalogs and choose special licenses, etc. So I need to figure it out. I hope I will do it soon. Most likely, I will implement it fully on the Steam version.
Okay, let's go to the numbers. I have 3030 renders, almost 13k lines of text/code/dialogs. And only 10 animations.

Here are my plans. I think I'll take another day or two to finish the code. Then I will have to spend a few days looking for issues in the script, inaccuracies in the dialogues and so on. Next I will do the translation. Since there's a lot of text, it's going to be quite a task. Maybe I can do it in a week? Don't know. Then there will be proofreading. During which I will try to finish the remaining animations.
So, on the one hand, it's almost finished. On the other hand... Well, there's still a lot to do. The last stages of development always suck the most. But the result is usually worth it.
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Uhh... That's a lot of text today. I hope I didn't bore you too much.

In any case, thank you all for your support. Take care

MrJet

The Basic version is being proofread. This will take some time, so I couldn't give you an exact release date for v1.1.0 in early access. But I hope that I'll be able to publish it in November.

1) Events:

1 big event with Rachel
1 small and 1 big event with Sara
1 event with Nikki
1 event with Kim (2 paths)
1 event with Sasha
1 event with Yuki
1 event with Ashley

2) Renders and animations:

1202 renders and 8 animations are ready

As I wrote earlier, this update turned out to be larger than usual (it's almost twice the size of a good old regular monthly update). So I hope this will be worthy compensation for the fact that in December I'm taking a break from working on the next update.
Now I'm currently working on the Extended version. 3 animations, a couple of renders, and some dialogues are ready (this is about 20% of the work that I have to do). According to the voting results, Kim and Sasha got one extra event each.

Most likely, the Extended version will be available only in early December.

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Best wishes,
Dream Now


Here are the first teaser images for v0.13. I'll post an update in a few days and let you know what my plans are going forward.

Jenny can't believe it.

The girls get together to talk.

Charlotte makes a call.

Thanks,
DB

The Basic version of 1.1.0 is still in development. I just finished working on a big event with Sara*. It only remains to write dialogues and render pictures for additional events with Ashley and Yuki. I don't know how much time I'll spend on them, but I hope about 3-5 days. After that, v1.1.0 need to be proofread and then it will be ready for public release (I still plan to release an update in November).
* In the last 10 days, development has been going a little slower than I had planned due to minor technical problems that led to a small upgrade/repair of my PC. Some of those problems have not been completely solved yet, but at least now they don't prevent me from working in the usual mode.
Then, while the Basic version is being proofread, I will start working on the Extended one. I think it will take me about 7-10 more days, so most likely the Extended version will be published in the last days of November or early December. You won't be overcharged, though.
I remind you that there will be a billing pause in December. Although it turned out that after switching to a new type of billing schedule**, the billing pause conditions also changed (these changes don't affect active patrons too much). I will write about these changes in a special public post about December.
** I mean, now you are charged on the day you join, and then monthly on that same date, and not only on the first day of the month as before
The second part of Sneak peeks v1.1.0 will be released in the coming days. I just want to make at least one render for the events with Ashley and Yuki and add them to the post, too.
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About the v1.1.0
1) Events:

1 big event with Rachel -- 100% complete
1 small and 1 big event with Sara -- 100% and 100% complete
1 event with Nikki -- 100% complete
1 event with Kim (2 paths) -- 100% complete
1 event with Sasha -- 100% complete
1 event with Yuki -- 0% complete
1 event with Ashley -- 0% complete

2) Renders and animations:
About 1100 renders and 8 animations are ready
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Best wishes,
Dream Now