WickedWare
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Dev Update #53
🕑 Added 2025-04-06 22:31:33 +0000 UTCHi everyone, let's talk about E4.
I've done a lot this week and animations are pretty much done but I'm still very far behind schedule. I really appreciate your patience and support so I want to be as transparent as possible in this update. The TLDR is that I'm expecting to publish E4 in July. I know that's a long time and I'm sorry about that.
Coming into 2025 I said I would stop giving forecasts until I was very close to finishing but I owe you an estimate here because of how long E4 will take in comparison to other episodes. With E4, there are a lot of areas I'm trying to improve at once which have slowed me down.
These things include:
New main menu
More audio
More detailed and longer animations
More care into lighting
More care into Lust values and requirements
Texting with sending pics
Character adjustments (Naomi etc)
New vaginas for all 18 main girls
Several new HaremWars features
Possible new gameplay mechanic for certain parties
I don't want to make excuses, I just want to be transparent. I didn't expect E4 to take this long in January but with everything I'm trying to add above (not to mention the android version, missing bios etc) it's gone slower than I'd like. As an idea for the future, the episodes that I expect will take the longest to produce are:
1) E21 (final ever episode)
2) E14 (season 2 finale)
3) E7 (season 1 finale)
4) E4 (lots of improvements + characters)
It's a shame that E4 makes that list but I hope you can see why. E4 animations have taken me so long to do in particular because I've been testing out a lot of new tools that will help with E4 animations and beyond. I wouldn't say there's a massive quality increase in E4 vs E3 animations, but there's a massive increase in my knowledge and skill set and that's allowing me to be more ambitious in places. To give you an idea - the longest E4 animation is 19 seconds and the longest E1-3 animation was 9 seconds. Some stills in e4 will also be challenging due to a highly populated party scene.
Anyway, I don't want to yap on I just wanted to give you an honest picture of where I am. I didn't expect that I would be changing so many small things E3->E4 but here we are. I just need to fix a few animations but I'm moving onto the still renders and working as hard as I can. Thank you so much for your support, it really means a lot - especially in this period between episodes.
Hope you all have a great week!
Comments
WickedWare
Sorry you're having issues with that - can I ask how your pc does with the animations? Are those smooth or buggy? It might be worth asking this in the discord as people don't get notifications for comments here. Yes that has been suggested a few times, the last time I talked about it was in this post under 'Cheat Mode' if you'd like to have a read: https://www.patreon.com/posts/e3-survey-review-121331105?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Bumbuman
Holy cow but I get it. Ep 4 will make or break you. You will either hit the upper echelons with the greats or stay stuck. But it better be worth the wait or people will forget it. So gotta make it impactful, memorable, hot as fuck, fun to replay, not be buggy. Will back you once it releases! Assuming the world economy is still around.
Tank4ever
I'm like 99% certain that its an issue with my PC being a little outdated, but figured I'd ask anyway lol. Has anyone else mentioned any issues with the Harem mini game? Every time I try to play it, it crashes the game. So I'm looking for any suggestions. And I'm sure this has been said a million times already because I'm new here but I read a few of the past Dev Updates, man I wish there was some type of New Game+ option to carry over skills from a previous save to a new playthrough, at least until the entire project is complete since from my attempts it doesn't seem possible to complete any of the trees fully at this stage of the game. But other than that the game is amazing all around, I'm enjoying all the characters designs, and the different events/interactives are hot but also entertaining.
