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Haruki or Jun for next update?

Good evening,

I'm going to drop a question really quick just so I can get started on the next update. As it stands, Jun is the normal choice for the next update since he has gone the longest without being updated. 

However, Haruki's route is still playing catch up as it is so new...

Update 0.66 - Keisuke

Good afternoon,

I'm here to bring you guys this new Keisuke update, also with the addition of the Shoichi sprite that everyone's been waiting for. Because a lot of things got added in this update, there might be a few issues here and there as I wasn't able to scrub the entire game looking f...

Can I publicly release the Shoichi update early?

Hey, everyone,

Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season. I'll make this post really short.

I realized that, because I released the Shoichi update to you all on the 11th, I would have to be releasing it for non-patrons on Christmas day. However, I won't be in town starting (l...

Update 0.65 - Shoichi

Good evening, everyone,

I hope you've all been well. I've fully recovered from COVID (if you haven't kept up with the development updates on Twitter, I got COVID right after my college entrance exam) and finally managed to finish the Shoichi update. It was a meaty one as a lot of plot threa...

Should the new Shoichi sprite be added in early?

Hello everyone,

Hopefully you guys have been keeping up with the Tennis Ace twitter where I've been posting status updates on occasion (as it is much easier to post status updates there due to the Patreon app not working well on mobile and the website forcing me to relog in and go through 2...

Update 0.64 - Haruki

Good evening,

I hope you all are well. I've had a few complications for the past couple months. As I said on my Twitter a few times, my grandmother's health suddenly took a nosedive and she was put into end of life care within the week. After that, I was focused on trying to stay in the loo...

Update 0.63 - Jun

Good evening, everyone,

I have finally managed to finish this update. Not only did it end up being massive, but I also updated a lot of stuff in the base level code of Tennis Ace in the meantime.

To begin with, TA has been updated to the latest version of Ren'py as of the posting of t...

Pre-release 0.63 (Jun)

Good evening, everyone,

For those who follow the project's twitter account, you might have seen me mention it a few hours ago. I've been updating a lot of TA code over the past few months and, to get rid of the one bug that would cause the game to crash whenever a user loaded an old save, r...

Update 0.62 - Shoichi and Keisuke

Hello everyone,

I'm here to bring you all the Sho/Kei update. Since both characters would be tackling the final day of the Regionals competition arc, I decided to roll them all into one. After all, there is a fair amount of overlap, and rolling it as two separate updates would feel cheap. 2023-04-08 23:39:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 0.61 - Jun

Hey everyone,

I have Jun's update here for you guys. Ended up struggling a lot more than I'd like with this one thanks to insisting on using NVL mode (which is borderline broken on Ren'py) as well as having a lot of systems breaking in general. The amount of time I spent on bugfixing was in...

Update 0.60 - Haruki

Good evening, everyone!

I know I'm later than I initially said I would be, but there's actually a good reason for that. As I was finishing up Haruki's update for release (i.e. replaying it to check for bugs and typos), I found the end of it... incredibly underwhelming. I was initially only ...

Release date for next update (and a CG WIP)

Hey there, everyone,

I know you guys would rather I already come out with the new update here and now, but it'll take me about five to seven days to finish it for a few reasons.

First of all, since the Haruki update was released on the 7th of October, I haven't yet had a full month to...

Update 0.59 - Intro to Haruki

Hello, everyone!

Hope you guys have been doing okay. I'm coming here (a lot earlier than expected) to drop something I know lots of you have been dearly looking forward to for a while now.

Like I said a few times before, I'd been working behind the scenes on the plans for Haruki's rou...

Update 0.58 - Keisuke

Hello, everyone!

As I mentioned in my last status update, I'm sorry for the delay in posting this update. Not only did it end up being a much larger update than I expected (bigger than t...

Status update on the next build

Hello everyone, how are you guys?

Sorry for the delay in getting a status update to you guys. I get so focused on working that it still slips my mind to let you guys know what's going on due to it. But I did promise to be better with keeping you guys posted, so I'm here a little late to giv...

Update 0.57 - Shoichi (Crash Fix)

Hello, everyone,

I finally managed to get this update to work. I underestimated how much trouble it would be to try and include the profile screen into the game. It ended up majorly breaking the game and took me weeks to fix. First the game would fail to launch. Then it would launch, but tr...

Delay Notice

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let you guys know real quick that I'm not gonna make it in time for this update. Programming the character profile screen and the new naming screen for Yuuichi at the start of the game took way more time than I thought. Making the main system itself work wasn't ...

Update 0.56 - Jun

Hello, everyone,

So... I finally managed to clear this update.

As I'd mentioned in the last status update, there was an issue with the payment processor and the payment being received by my bank in Brazil. To make a very long, very emotionally draining situation short, that whole mess...

Status update and CG poll

Hey there, everyone,

As the name suggests, I'm here to both keep you guys updated on the current Jun update as well as to give you the option to pick which one you think is best for the next series of CGs.

Due to an issue with the payment processor, my payment for this month was held ...

Timeline for the next TA update

Heyo, everyone,

I'm just dropping by to let you guys know the plans for the next update. After having released three updates all at once, I planned to try and push out one more update by the end of the month, which was going to be a Jun update. 

However, a few days ago, Nyaruh me...

Pinups

Hey everyone,

As an extra treat, I've been having the great @briarsthorne work on a few underwear pinups for Tennis Ace every few months for a while now. Long enough to have five of them done. I'm making them available...

Hotfix for Update 0.55

Hey there, everyone,

I'm posting here new files for the 0.55 update. They fix a few of the bugs people have reported over the past few days since the initial release:

• BGM not properly fading out at the end of Keisuke's day 34
• MC's portrait not showing up properly in som...
  2022-04-21 02:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 0.55 - Jun, Shoichi and Keisuke

Hello, everyone,

Well, I figured that I wouldn't be able to set things right until I got as many updates out as possible. So I've been working to try and get an entire update cycle out at once. I'm sorry for the delay. I don't have much left to say since I'm so tired right now.

Hopefu...

Art pack (3 images)

As I mentioned in the post about the latest update just a few minutes ago: I haven't been able to get to writing the short stories I intend to write to accompany these pieces. At the same time, with how many delays I've had, it would be disingenuous of me to plan to charge for these. It's not a g...

Update 0.54 - Keisuke

Hello, everyone,

First of all, to address the obvious: I am massively late on my updates. This Keisuke update had me with the worst writer's block I've ever had to deal with it. I kept staring at my screen for hours only to write a couple of lines during what kept feeling like an eternity. ...

Update 0.53 - Shoichi

Oh my God, it's finally done.

Hey everyone. I know I'm pretty late with this update. I told myself that it wouldn't take too long to add back in the content that was cut out of the previous update, but boy was I wrong.

To put things bluntly, thanks to the content in this update + the ...

Delay Notice

Hey, everyone,

Trying to get this Shoichi update over and done with, but I'm still a ways off. Doesn't help that I'm also trying to add in some content I had to cut from the previous Shoichi update for lack of time, so the workload is a bit bigger. It'll be a few days before it's ready to b...

Update 0.52 - Jun

Hello there, everyone,

Sorry for the delay. I would have released it about 5 hours late or so, but when I was proofreading, I decided that the point I originally decided the end of the update was too much of a downer. Because of that, I went back and added a couple of extra scenes at the en...

Update 0.51 - Keisuke (FINALLY)

Hello, everyone,

First of all, I want to apologize for the silence on the issue I was having on my end. I caught myself in a loop of thinking "It'll just take a few more minutes. I'm sure I'll figure out a solution to this problem soon and I'll just post the update instead of posting about ...

Delay Notice

Hey there, everyone!

I know, I know. I've unfortunately gotten in the habit of delaying this year thanks to college and my work schedule with TA conflicting a lot.

However, my semester has just ended and I should be free up until the 28th of July (ironic that my classes will start up ...