Development Update 45 (Patreon)

Hey guys,

The update is in the final stages and I am setting a firm release date for the beta version as May 5th. With the main release on May 12th and a public release on June 9th.

I can confidently say it's a great update, one of our biggest and best, blurring the boundaries between art, storytelling and pornography (if I do say so myself). The new content is very much for my patrons, requested by you guys and written with you all in mind. The girls are at an advanced level with tons of nudity and sexual content. There's a big set piece ending with no less than seven very horny students. That said, the update won't be quite what people are expecting. As a writer and artist, I have to follow my creative instincts, wherever they lead me. Meaning the final release is sometimes quite different from what I envisioned at the start. That has never been more true than with version 0.14. Most of what I ended up making wasn't even on the cards before our last poll. So, I think it’s time for me to reflect on the last six months or so, explain what happened and what you can actually expect.

Maxine’s fundraiser was chosen by a poll held last year by Mr Mykock (seen here at home with his personal secretary, Reilly).

I released version 0.13 all the way back in September last year. After the usual couple of weeks of bug fixing, a little time for organising a poll and a short holiday with the missus, it was time to crack straight on with version 0.14. I had ambitious plans for a quick update before the end of the year and I had my work cut out for me. The poll results had come in by this point and I had my brief for what to write for Maxine's fundraiser. People voted for the sponsored outfits option, where the girls would be sponsored to wear a series of risqué outfits to school, with the final “outfit” being nude and smoothly shaven. Writing a storyline where Maxine (a proud feminist) would agree to attend school completely naked and hairless from the neck down (plus somehow convincing a bunch of other girls to join her) was always going to be a challenge. However, this kind of thing is what I do best as a writer and I was confident I could figure something out.

It’s going to be an embarrassing week for Maxine that will test her sense of pride. Will she be able to complete the school’s owner's challenge and will she be able to convince her friends to join her?

So, it was early October (around the time of the last public release) when I first put my mind to solving this problem. Things went well at first, I had a plan and the words were flowing freely. However, the further I got into the storyline the further away I seemed to be from completing it. After a few weeks of focused writing, I was twenty thousand or so words in, yet I was still barely halfway through. Panic set in a little bit at this point as things were starting to spiral and I realised this was going to take me a lot longer than expected. However, I’d already invested quite a bit of time in it, I liked what I'd written and I got some positive feedback from my team. So I made the decision to press on.

By early November I felt like I had gotten things back under control. I had the base of the script done and split into five chapters, one for each day of the week. I began to make the renders and shared some of these as previews. Then around mid-November, I had a short hospital stay for surgery. The surgeon told me to expect a week's recovery in bed. Unfortunately, there were some complications, and I unexpectedly found myself unable to do much of anything for almost six weeks. Although I couldn't get much work done over this time, it did give me plenty of opportunity to think and what was still fresh on my mind at the time was the fundraiser. I felt quite happy with the script I’d written but I knew it could be better. The story had a lot of nudity but very little sexual content and this wouldn't do at all. So, as I lay recovering, I wracked my brain for several weeks, trying to figure out how to make it something really special. Over the tail end of my recovery, I ended up writing two more chapters, both happening on the Friday after the fundraiser ends but while the girls are still in their final "costumes".

Maxine and Ada’s relationship gets increasingly fractious across the week, culminating in a dramatic betrayal

So that was how Maxine's fundraiser accidentally ended up being a short novel. Almost 50,000 words and longer on its own than most of our previous updates. Should I have written such a long storyline? Probably not. Could I have made this storyline any shorter? Maybe, but it wouldn't have been anywhere near as good. In any case, there was no point in second-guessing past decisions. I had my script now and I was sure people would like it. I just needed to make all the images without falling too much further behind for time.

By early January I had finally recovered from the surgery and was back at my desk ready to start rendering the lengthy new script. So I set to work putting together the thousand or so images and dozens of animations I would need to pull it all off. I still had some important parts of the staff training storyline still to write and almost all of it left to render. However, I figured I would still have time once I'd gotten the fundraiser out of the way. As usual, though, I was over-ambitious. I thought I could make the whole lengthy script I'd written for the fundraiser and still get the staff training storyline completely finished by my self-imposed deadline at the end of April. Unfortunately, that hasn't proven to be the case. There will be plenty in the update other than the fundraiser, however, I am not going to have time for a second complete story arc. Therefore, the staff training storyline is going to have to be split between this update and the next.

Some of the girls struggle with distracting sexual thoughts and feelings over the course of the fundraiser. Fortunately, the headmaster will be there to help.

So my new plan is as follows: Version 0.14 will have the fundraiser, the beginning of the staff training storyline and some fun little extras. Version 0.15 will therefore be Faye's punishment system, the second part of the staff training and whatever people ask for in the next poll. I hesitate to say I made a mistake with the fundraiser because it is good. However, I have so much other content that I still need to make that I fully admit that I got sidetracked this time. Whether or not people end up enjoying the fundraiser, there were still a lot of lessons for me to learn from this experience. I will be holding another poll after this release. However, I am going to spend much more time beforehand planning each option out more carefully, to avoid a repeat of the fundraiser situation where things unintentionally spiralled.

These four girls will enjoy themselves a little more than the others over the course of the week.

So, I have a great update for everyone. It's just not the update anyone was expecting, with Maxine's fundraiser now forming the majority of the new content. Although the fundraiser is almost entirely linear, it takes place in multiple locations and spans an entire in-game week. So, although the player will be "on the rails", it won't feel that way. It should feel like a regular game week with time in the headmaster's office, the courtyard, the cafeteria, and the classroom and there is even a Friday board meeting. Almost all the girls appear to some degree or another. Many of them spend the day at school in a variety of revealing outfits. With eleven of them completely nude and smoothly-shaven on the final day (not all voluntarily). Several of them end up in the headmaster’s office for some sexy fun. There are a lot of funny moments, a few darker ones, a shit ton of nudity and constant sexiness throughout. There's only one cum shot for the headmaster right at the end but it will be spectacular and well worth the wait.

There will be some more patrol events featuring unnamed extras, including this naughty girl caught climbing over a fence.

I am relieved to say that the fundraiser part of the update is well and truly done now. My team is busy working on quality control, leaving me free to focus on adding more content right up until release day. I have a lot of scenes written, storyboarded and ready to capture. So I'm going to be having a frantic blitz to add in as many short scenes as I can, to balance out the long and linear fundraiser storyline. We will definitely see the beginning of the staff training storyline, which will have plenty of excitement right from the get-go (including a new threesome with Debbie and Rachel). Plus there will be some new mini-patrol events, like the lost lens and stretching ones from the last update.

There have been some big improvements to the quest log, including better notifications.

In addition to new content, there have been some really major code changes behind the scenes. The most significant change recently is that the quest log has been completely remade from the ground up. As well as being more stable and easier to code, this has also allowed us to create better quest notifications. Rather than a single line of text to say that a quest has been updated, you'll be shown which quest has been updated with a link to the full quest log. A much-needed quality of life improvement. The guys have also been working on fixing dozens of minor continuity errors (e.g. characters reacting as if you haven’t given them a certain punishment before, even though you have), adding missed content (e.g. Amy’s public punishment in her underwear) and extra details (such as the headmaster’s photo album or more character log entries). Overall the game should feel more polished and more immersive.

So, the next update is just around the corner. You guys will next hear from me when it is done on either May 5th for the Teacher tier ($10), or May 12th for Teaching Assistants ($5).

Altos