Hi everyone!
So the next update for KZO is almost ready, all we're missing right now is the voice acting.
It was commissioned and paid for on the 18th of this month, but unfortunately 4-5 days after the VA (Cinder) contracted a pretty nasty throat virus which rendered her unable to work on any commissions, she is still recovering from it.
Here's the most recent public status update on the situation by her:
https://x.com/CinderDryadVA/status/1972349072360284313
It's looking like it might still take a bit for her to recover to the point where she's comfortable working on commissions again, then there's the waiting time for her to finish recording the 30 minutes of audio for KZO plus a couple days for me to chop it all up, sort it, and add it to the game. My estimation is it might take an extra 2-3 weeks, maybe slightly more.
For context, Cinder's voiced everything that's in V0.1 currently. She usually knocks it out of the park with every project I've entrusted to her, plus bringing in a new VA to voice Belle / Burnice would feel pretty jarring as you could probably tell there's 2 different people voicing the same characters.
Neverthless, while I think voice acting is extremely important and a really necessary part of an nsfw experience, I also feel like I've kept you guys waiting for long enough.
So, just like we did when a similar situation happened during the development of SqueezeWatch happened, I think you guys should be able to choose what happens next.
Do you guys want to wait until the voice acting is ready and get the full experience, or would you rather I publish V0.2 of KZO as it is right now without voice acting in the next couple of days?
Apologies and thank you for your patience.