The good news + the good news

When I logged on here today to write this post and saw how many people have joined the project in the past week, I was just overwhelmed! Really!

So I want to first write some words about the project:

Some may say 13 is a bad number and there may be also a reason why there is no 13th floor on skycrapers. But for this project 13 is surely not a bad number! That the project is reaching this version soon means that it has come a long way.

It is your support that has made it possible to reach this release! It is your support that has made it possible to create Jessica! And it will be your support that will make every future release possible!

I want to drive this project forward to make it better and add more content! For me, the need to achieve this goal is much stronger than my ego. For you, this means that I don't take criticism of you personally, but I do take it seriously. There has already been so much feedback, productive conversations and ideas from you! Some of them will certainly influence the further development of the game. And if they fit into the concept, I will implement them. If not, there are plenty of ideas and suggestions that will inspire me to adapt them and integrate them into the game or trigger new ideas.

Great! But what is the current state of development?

The new story chapter with Jessica is almost finished. I've already posted you some SFW and NSFW content over the last few weeks. It wasn't planned, but I got carried away again: I've added a short kissing scene at the end so that Jessica can say goodnight to you. I've attached two little clips and screens for you.

So now I'll start adding new tasks or rather "favors" (as they will be renamed in the next version, as already announced) for the two girls to make grinding relation more varied. After that I will add another random event with Hannah and then finalize v0.13.0 for release.

After receiving a large number of bug reports, I felt the need to fix the biggest of them for the next version. This is what I have done in the last two days. I fixed the so called “Michael Bug” where the MC's name was always "Michael" after loading a game. I also fixed the issue where dialogs would sometimes show the girls' internal IDs [GIRL1] and [GIRL2] instead of their names.

Some of you have reported that they sometimes get stuck or have softlocks and have to exit the game, resulting in the loss of some of their progress, which is certainly annoying. So I've taken your suggestion and added an autosave function. In the new setting under “Gameplay” you can now even choose how often your progress should be saved automatically (see screenshot attached).

That way I hope to improve the comfort and implement a general help against bugs that I have not (yet) fixed.

And I also want to tell you that I am currently working on a general roadmap to give an overview of what is planned for the near and distant future. As my patron, you will certainly see it before anyone else!