Dev Log #57 - A mechanic of consequence!

Hi all, welcome back to another week of updates! This week, I will be discussing more on the upcoming episode-wide mechanic of something that has only been seen on characters other than Cara as well as share the usual news on my render progress as well as the game's playability, so let's get started!

Update on renders and game playability
At present, I'm currently in the midst of rendering the images for both Days 6 and 7, alongside some additional renders for Day 5 as well (i.e. story-related renders). Overall, there are a few H-scenes left for me to complete:

Day 6

• Two sub-scenes/variations (as described from last week) of the main H-scene, with three sub-scenes/variations completed.
• One standalone scene.

Day 7

• Two sub-scene/variations of the main H-scene, with one sub-scene/variation completed.

In summary, these are the scenes I will focus on for this weekend and whenever I have the time during my absence from 20th November to 1st December (whenever I am able to use my home devices). When I am away, I will use that time to also leave all my scenes to render (which is still in the number of 100+ scenes).

During this absence, I plan to write and develop the story further (as I will be bringing my laptop along) when I am able. This combined with the scenes left to render above will allow me to be in good shape as November comes to a close very soon!

While I'm on the topic, the writing and game playability are currently focused on the dialogue for the free-roam on Day 6 (similar to last week). I am also progressively refining the written story for Day 5 and aim to refine most of the episode's dialogue during my absence while I work on the renders for this weekend. Day 7's dialogue will be started soon after this, with this being slightly shorter in terms of dialogue than the other days as it would be the endpoint of Episode 2!

A new episode-wide mechanic!
With Cara's bombastic adventure sometimes involving differing levels of spiciness with the other characters, there are most definitely... consequences for her actions.

Throughout the entire episode, Cara will be able to interact with a select few characters who will engage in... sensual intimacy; the result of which would cause Cara to be impregnated!

A visual representation of the impregnation process (the first of four stages!)

Of course, who Cara chooses to interact with for some sexy time depends entirely on you and your choices! Although... only one scene would be more... compulsory than the others... but that would be too much information for now!

Overall, this mechanic leans heavily into the 'multiple-choices' kind of storytelling that many of you have expressed interest in, be it recently or from older polls that were skirting around the topic of which type of gameplay is more desirable, and I hope this mechanic helps to hit the mark in terms of the episode's direction and overall flow!

Progress evaluation/preview build
In terms of progress, I believe there is some room for improvement within the last few days of the episode dialogue-wise and pacing-wise. However, these are things that I believe can be resolved once rendering is, by and large, complete.

Of course, these are estimations and it is something I should work on before finalizing a preview build. Moving forward, I will provide updates outside of these weekly dev logs should there be a confirmed preview build as I continue to work on the episode!

I apologize that there isn't a hard date for a preview just yet but I feel it would be dishonest for me to promise a preview date when there are still development tasks left to be done!

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Story: 100% done. The story is now finalized and will not change.

Renders: 75% done. Day 6 and Day 7 are concurrently in progress and are the focus for this week. Up 10% from last week. The total render count sits at 3142 (+326 from last week) renders.

Dialogue: 67.5% done. Day 5 and Day 6 are being done concurrently but have been paused temporarily to prioritize rendering before my absence. Up 2.5% from last week.

Game Playability: 70% done. Programming is in progress for Day 6 free-roam. Up 5% from last week.
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That's all for this week! It has been an interesting week as I have been adjusting to a new schedule following my resignation. For now, things will remain as they are (in terms of update structure) as I progress through the remaining development of Episode 2!

Thank you and stay safe!