Hey!

The Basic update was completed two days ago and has already been sent out for proofreading. After the proofreading is complete, I will do some final tests and the Basic version will be fully ready for early access release. The roughly scheduled early access release date is February 24-26.
Right now I'm working on content for the Extended version (about 20-25% of the planned scope of work has been completed).
Overall, the development of the current update is going pretty well so far. I even managed to make a couple more animations for the Basic version than I originally planned.
Also, I would like to note that I am personally pleased with the environment I was able to create for the events with Carol and Nikki (especially the furnishings and other contents in their rooms). This is about the rendering quality I strive for.

1) Events:

Basic ver. -- 100% complete
1 main event
1 big event and 1 regular event with Sara
1 event with Kim
1 event with Lexi
2 events with Ashley (bad path and threesome path)
1 small event with Ashley
1 small event with Rachel
1 big event with Carol
1 additional event with Nikki
1 additional event with Ashley (Ashley's path)

Extended ver. -- 20% complete
1 extra event with Carol -- 0% complete
1 extra event with Lexi -- 40% complete

2) Renders and animations:

Basic ver. -- 100% complete
1198 renders and 13 animations

Extended ver. -- 20% complete
35 renders and 4 animations are ready


3) Other things:
The main menu has been redesigned twice (not radical changes)
The music in the main menu has been changed (as an experiment)
New face images have been added for some characters to the "Bios" tab in the MC's diary/notebook (also new face images have been added to the biography pages of these characters)
The cast of main characters has been changed (Nikki took Natalie's place)
A couple of old scenes with Nikki have been added to the "Memories" tab


Best wishes,
Dream Now

Polls

February's special render poll has concluded and the winner is Eve! Speaking of Eve, part two of her outfit poll was a close one. After carefully tallying the votes, the results are as follows:

#1 received 31 votes
#2 received 117 votes
#3 received 122 votes

Eve's final outfit for the near future.

Summary of this week:

- Prepared render queue
- Lots of posing
- Post-processing
- Scripting

Cheers and have a great weekend!

Robison & Npx

Thanks for being patient regarding some news, we are pretty busy completing the steam release because some decisions we took. It's Time for a long overdue update on things from the team!

At first we wanted to port the revamped 1.0 version of the chapter 1 as is, on the steam platform with the chapter 2 UI and improvement BUT we decide to add some extra and named it SPECIAL EDITION. It's planned to come out on the 16th of december

The idea behind it, is because we want to deliver an improved experience than original version, this means several quality of life improvements that you have experienced through the releases of Chapter 2.

* Improved dialogue UI,

* Overall performance increase 

* Better animation system.

But the changes are not limited to just the above. By popular demand we took it upon ourselves to give a "Optional smoking" choice in the gameplay like in chapter 2. Which means that several scenes have been updated with a non smoking variant. 

Of course it's complexe to do this for all scenes, as that means loading in a lot of old scenes and having to re-render them, and you can imagine the amount of work and time it would take for a project that took us around 3 years to complete. Trust me its not and easy task to redo those and make them match the original version of the scene BUT Around 90% have been redone so it's HUGE!

We're not trying to go full George Lucas on the old star wars movies here where you try to redo something old over and over again. We know we have improved and technology has improved over the years and we will bring it with us to the future projects.

Although we still couldn't help ourselves from updating some scenes and animations Some scenes have seen a bigger overhaul. Nika have some scenes completely redone and improved adding some stills and animation while we were at it 😉

Another example is removing the wimp path with Heather which already became obsolete in the later half of Chapter 1, and streamline and improve the "hero" path . As you know these scenes were some of the first ever made in timestamps, and we feel like some of the interactions weren't completely in line with their personalities.

We've also improved our internal tools to catch more errors since chapter 1 came out, and that has helped us identify and fix multiple issues as well. Mostly some few dialogue lines that didn't show up or there were some minor pathing errors causing some text to not correspond with the choice you made.

More information soon about some new features.

Chapter 2 will resume development in couple days and will be continue where it left!
Take care and keep in mind that it's all because of you guys that support us over the years that we are here talking about a steam release today! 

THANKS MANY TIME!