So much going on! Vacation was marvelous, and much needed after the Chapter 9 effort. Once I got back, aside from a few days spent researching some potential Android issues (which turned out to be unfounded) most of this fortnight was spent on Chapter 10.

For those that haven’t seen on our Discord, one of my (very expensive) NVIDIA RTX-3090s finally died. This almost doubled render times. Because for some weird reason, 3090s are still incredibly expensive, I made the executive decision to purchase a new 4090-based system. I wanted a fully built-out machine for reasons of warranty and reliability, as opposed to my current homebrew system that has given me problems since day one. I couldn’t really afford it, but I couldn’t exactly afford not to. I’ll relegate my current system to a file server (and possible render server if I can ever get it working again)

Scene 5 is completed. (I’d already started on Scene 4 and was a ways into it before putting on the backburner for a rewrite, which will take a while to complete). Scene 6 is underway. Speaking of rewrites, in an effort to streamline the number of scenes in Chapter 10 (keeping in mind there is a whole Epilogue that follows) I combined a couple of scenes into one which makes the story flow more smoothly and cuts down on what ended up being repetitious story beats.

October’s 4K renders for our upper tier members went out on schedule on the 1st. November’s renders haven’t been determined yet. The poll to determine the next sets of renders will be done next week, and I’ll start preparing for November 1 based on the results. At the moment, it looks like Alex will be the big winner, but there’s still time to vote if you haven’t already.

I’ve gotten some great feedback on the other poll that I put out, about future titles. There’s still time to vote on those as well, as that poll will run until the end of the month.

A heartfelt welcome to all the new supporters who have joined in the past two weeks! Your backing is essential to my work and drives me forward. If you haven’t already, please join me on my Discord and participate! There, you can find everything from lewd images, discussions about LGBTQ+ rights, reports on our daily progress, to programming tips for budding Ren’Py developers.

Gather ’round for a sight most wondrous! Two images, the product of recent endeavours!