Progress on 0.5.3.5

Good morning,

I've just had to think about a decsision I have to make, which is why I'm making this post early today.

It's about Emily's story progression. The fact that the relationship with her is pretty much mandatory (be it sexual only or romantic) is what made me think about it a lot in the past days. I know that there are other characters who also don't give you that choice, but right now I'm working on Emily (and if you think about Tia at this point, I can only say: "Someday in the future")
You need to make Emily your sexpartner for the orphanage and you also need it for the MC's house to be renovated. Two storybranches on which others depend heavily (Pregnancy in general and Athia/all stuff related to the MC's house). Also this relationship is in conflict with Mira. Which makes it feel even more weird because you pretty much have to cheat on her for the story to continue.

Which now brings me to the problem: I want to change that, but the question is wether to do it now or at some point in the future. Now might be a good time. I just had to dive into all of Emily's dialogues and events. I now know where to make changes so that it can be just a platonic relationship with her while also getting the mandatory part done. But the problem why I'm asking you this question is: This will take even more time. And I already wasted a lot of it on Emily's old content (more about that later) So I let you decide wether I do that now or wait with it until the next rework update. Since I have to decide on that in short this poll will only run until the coming Monday. Thank you for participating!

Ok now about what I've done over the past week.
I've already hinted that I've worked a lot on Emily's old content. Last Friday I told you that I've worked on her oldest animations and that I wanted to also update the kidnapping images too. Which I did by now, but it took way longer than until Friday night. By now I not only reworked her images but also added in a quest for the early relationship building (which is something I felt was a bit too complicated to figure out without a walkthrough) and also added in a new step into the story progression + reworked some of the dialogue in the quest + even more reworks on some images that had to be addressed to be identical to the new ones (I changed her bed, it would look strange if in one scene it looks this way and in another as it looked before).
What really caused some unexpected problems was the way I had done Emily's events back when I made them. Of course I didn't know better by then, but there was so much redundant code that in order to make changes to it I was forced to clean it up first. I did this so that it would actually be possible to update her dialogue in future scenes. The way it was this would have been really frustrating to do, as some identical dialogues were present in 2-3 different events.
So that's what I did and also ran a lot of tests afterwards to make sure it all works out. I finished that on Wednesday night.

This version is now also pretty much playable...So I've thought about it and decided to release it as a test version today. There are probably problems still in that version that need to be addressed, so getting a bit of help from those of you who want to provide it is very welcome! While writing this the upload is already running, I will make the release post when it's done uploading.

What isn't in this version now is the actual pregnancy content. I've worked on sprites and also a new animation for Emily yesterday, but it's far from being implemented. Images need to be edited + I have to make renders for the backgrounds. And the actual dialogue for them has to be added/Reactions from Mira & Frisha. I still think I can get this done until next Friday. However if I also add in the option to only have a platonic relationship with Emily, this could take longer. Which is why I'm letting you decide.

For now I will continue to work on the pregnancy animations and images. On Monday I'll then either work on the alternative version of Emily's relationship or even more pregnancy content.
I still want to get 0.5.3.5 done next week. But as it stands now this won't be possible before Friday. I hope you can forgive the delay, but the rework of Emily's images + the cleanup on her events was necessary to have a good foundation for future events.

Ok, back to work!
I wish you all a nice weekend!