Development Update (Patreon)

Hi guys,

Just to update you all on the progress for version 0.6. With the writing, planning and coding mostly done I'm well into the rendering stage now. The image count is already up to 5200 images so up over a thousand from last time (which includes dozens of new animations) and still a lot more left to make before release.

As I've already said the update is in two main parts. The first of which is unlocking the rule to punish the girls yourself. This will trigger a major new scene where the headmaster immediately puts his new powers to good use in the biggest and most ambitious scene we've done so far with all the current students, a new student and some visitors to the school. I had to create a whole new classroom to fit in all the girls, as shown in the pictures above. This scene forms the 'centrepiece' of the update and includes several girls being punished. It also marks a major turning point for the game and what the headmaster is capable of doing. I've posted some more preview images from this scene in the teacher's lounge section of the Discord for my $10 and above patrons.

The second part of the update is Rachel's storyline and the punishment system for her. Some of the existing scenes for Rachel (including making her take her top off in the sports lesson and also her showing you her boobs in your office) fit near the middle of her storyline. I plan to give people the option to reset all of Rachel's content (while keeping all other progress) at the start of the update so people won't need to start a new save. However, this won't be essential, you can see her events out of order and they will still make sense.

The estimated release date for the 0.6 beta version (the 22nd November) is less than two weeks away now. I've still got quite a long list of scenes which need to be included to give a decent play-time and to make the update feel self-contained. My guess would be it's about another three weeks worth of work. It doesn't take a genius at maths to figure out that this means I won't be making the 22nd November estimated release date. On top of this I'm away for just over a week from the 25th November visiting my in-laws in the US for Thanksgiving. I’d like to release at the weekend and the 6th December will be too soon after I get back. Therefore, the earliest I can realistically get the beta release out will be the 13th December with the main release a week later on the 20th December. My other option would be to split the release but I think that in the long run I’m probably better off delaying it and giving you guys something more substantial.

This is much later than I initially estimated and I apologize for this. However, rest assured that I am working hard and a longer wait just means a bigger update. Also from January I’m hoping we can afford to have Herdone working on the game full time as well, which should mean a big increase in production speed next year. 

Altos