I sincerely hope that everyone had a happy and peaceful holiday period! I took a few days off around both Christmas and New Year’s, but it didn’t keep me from getting a lot accomplished.

Then

Scene 17 is finally finished. Thank God. It was the longest and most code intensive scene in the entire game. 169 renders over 8 source code files. Most of the work was due to the complexity of the overlapping story lines. I think I caught all of the possible routes, but that will be a serious job for whomever gets to test the end result. Just to give you an apples-to-apples comparison: the typical scene is anywhere from 20 to 40 renders, usually in one location. Scene 17 alone has 26 locations, all new to the story. People tend to think of a VN render as a static thing, like a photograph. But it’s more like a single frame of film captured on a movie set. Each set has to be crafted, dressed (where you place objects in it), lit, and cameras placed to capture a moment. Most VNs just use purchased environments as is. Don’t get me wrong, the only location that I crafted completely from scratch (well, aside from the kids’ bathroom) was the Jeffries family house. And aside from that bathroom (which was the very first scene in the story, while I was just getting started with Daz Studio), I’ve strived to make each location my own with custom art and object renders.

Part of that work to complete scene 17 was a reworking of the story paths to make sense in the narrative. You’ll see what I mean when you finally get to view it. Part of that overhaul was condensing several scenes down to one. So the originally planned (I don’t even remember at this point, 21, 22?) scenes got cut to 18 as I rearranged the story paths and combined some of them. Confusion started as a written script. But like any movie script, when it comes time to film, changes are made to the dialogue and all of the niggly bits are rearranged during editing. Consider this process somewhat like that, all rolled into one.

Now

At this point, there are 7 scenes left to do (2 of them are completed except for animations, and I’m a couple of days into a new one). I’m not yet ready to commit to a release schedule, as animations are notoriously unpredictable to plan for, but it’s looking like I’ll be finished sometime in late February-early March. But don’t hold me to it. Yet. 😊

Soon

The January 2025 (I am constantly writing 2024 still) 4K renders for my top-tier supporters on Patreon and SubscribeStar were of Glenn, and were very well received. The next up from the supporter poll is Izzy, due for an outing on February 1st. I also released two free 4K renders for the community for the holiday season, for “the holidays” and for New Year’s. (Can’t forget there are Channukah and Kwanzaa folk out there!) Busy, busy!

I also released some updates on the work I’m pursuing in parallel for University Trans-fer as I finish outlining the story and start writing the script. Please come and join the conversation here! You can participate in polls, voice your opinions about story and character directions, and see some preliminary character renders I’ve done and will continue to do as the work progresses. Because once the script is done, it’s done™️.

A big hello to the fresh faces who have recently joined our cause! Your encouragement is essential and keeps me motivated. 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.

Good folk, I present to you, two images, each a testament to recent tireless endeavours!