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About this patch and Christmas patch
🕑 Added 2019-11-22 17:45:48 +0000 UTCHey guys!
So, obviously this patch is going to come out a bit later than we were hoping to release. Delays caused by health issues in past patches keep pilling on into future patches and the development map is not going according to plan. Not only that, but we have to clean up our game in order to submit the tech demo to our Steam publisher early next year.
As such, we decided to make a few changes on the Christmas patch. The Christmas patch will NOT be Christmas themed. We will push that patch back to when we can fit it (probably Christmas next year). Instead, the clean up patch we we were going to do in August next year before 1.0 will be done on Christmas! There's quite a few reasons why we feel this change is needed.
This means we are finally going to rework most of the hentai scenes and drawings in the early game! Our old scenes are just not up to par with the quality we have nowadays, we are finally going to fix that.
We are going to proofread a lot of stuff I wrote in a rush way back when and improve on my grammar which while far from perfect it's a million times better than it was back then when I comma spliced like crazy. We're also going to improve the dialogue in those scenes and get rid of story inconsistencies. We're going to improve the motives and explain the mindset of Ayame during those scenes.
We're going to limit the map early on and only unlock certain areas as we need so players don't get as lost. We're going to create A LOT of quests and make the NPC's give you a lot more info and have more entertaining dialogues than what they have now. We're going to improve the SFX's of the game, animations and dialogue to better channel the player towards the content and helping people unlock everything without getting stuck. Quests, highlighted dialogue and maybe creating a hint system will fix this.
Overall, the early game scenes will feel like new scenes, bugs should all be squashed by the end of the year, and we will have a pristine version of the game to play for the Christmas of 2019!
This should fix a lot of issues such as delays, bugs, and people not being able to unlock content without asking someone how to do it. We will also finish the walk through cleanup.
The patch release is scheduled for December 20, midnight GMT. We will try to finish it earlier but we're going to do as much work as we can and as many improvements as possible before the patch day instead of having a set objective of content we want to release. It'll be a lighter patch development and story wise for me which will give me a breather, but it will improve the game a lot, specially early on. It's time to turn Fleeting Iris in the game I pictured when we started working on it and stop delaying and postponing all the improvements we wanted to improve.
Halloween Patch is almost done and it will come out Monday at Midnight GMT which gives us some time to play it a few times and heavily test for bugs.
Hope everyone approves of this changes. This will improve the game a lot I'm sure you're all going to love the changes. Any question you know where you can reach me. The last previews should be available later tonight on Discord in order not to spoil those who don't wish to be spoiled.
Thank you very much for your continuous support! Love y'all.
~ Starke
