Official announcement: I will release the update date before June 30th.
This is the final Early Preview, since this update cycle has indeed taken way too long—I've decided to make it public.
Here are the final versions of the scenes for the four LIs appearing in 0.3. I plan to add CG content for two scenes in 0.3, but they will be on different routes of the same character. You can save your progress in different branches to unlock the CGs from each route.
A bit off-topic: if you're here just for the game progress, you don't need to read below.
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I know many people are very unhappy about how long this update has taken. Yeah, I really should apologize for that.
I'm sorry.
But I still want to say a few words in my own defense: as a fresh graduate, I've been through a lot in the past year, including but not limited to—preparing for graduation exams, moving between cities and changing apartments to find a job, job hunting, working a part-time job on top of that, and losing a family member. So for someone like me who just entered the workforce, the time I can spend on AVN development is probably just one day off per week.
I'll only talk about these real-life struggles once. I tried not to bring them up before because it made me feel like I was fishing for sympathy from my fans. But since so many people wanted a concrete explanation, and some even attacked me for posting 'Daily Practice' content, thinking I was just stringing fans along, I decided to write it all out here.
I hope you all realize that with the current level of support, there's no way I can become a full-time developer. Even though saying this feels like admitting failure, sometimes objective facts are just that. I don't want to admit it, but it's right there.
So what does that mean? It means I can't have the ample development time that those successful full-time creators have. It seems like many people expect me to spend all my working hours making the AVN, without ever considering whether I'd starve doing that. And within my limited working time, I've also been actively taking in community criticism, optimizing and improving my script and renders... or anything related to the game. If you can't see that, at least you can see whether my renders have improved over the past year, right? I don't have a studio either—everything in the game's development is done by me alone. Maybe many people imagine game developers as at least a small studio, but in reality, the vast majority of AVN creators work solo.
As a young creator in my early twenties, I hope you can give me a little more understanding and opportunity. I have always, consistently, dedicated myself to delivering the best content I can at each stage to my players. And I can still promise you this: if the income from this AVN at least allows me to quit my part-time job, I will put all that extra time into development.
It's not like I have much of a social life anyway—what else would I do?
I did, in the community, post overly optimistic release dates because I overconfidently overestimated the time I could spend on AVN development. Even though I kept saying that you should always refer to the official schedule posted on Patreon or in announcements, no one really paid attention to that.
Okay, I have to admit, this is all my fault — I inevitably still think the way I did back in college, making me feel like my development would go smoothly, but in the workplace there are always all kinds of strange interferences that pull me further and further away from my expected timeline. However, I really shouldn't have casually made promises in the community that I had no confidence in, even if they were just meant as jokes.
From now on, I'll try to be more careful with my words in the community. And I also won't post 'Daily Practice' content anymore.
I guess people would rather see a silent AVN developer—because that gives the impression that they're always focused on developing the game. I've fully understood that now. Thank you to all the fans who taught me that.
At the same time, I must thank my patrons—truly thank. In fact, my patrons have always shown great patience and have continued to act as friends encouraging my development. So the above announcement is not aimed at anyone in particular—it's just my public response to the ongoing doubts both inside and outside the community recently.
A special day, huh? I love u all❤