I always get bogged down with anxiety and small details, like not wanting to give a progress report until it could be thorough enough to convey all the work I've done on Respite (Kaori, Butterfly, Arachne) and give a full picture of the complex 10F situation, supplemented with a bunch of footage/previews/etc.
But now it's (my time) the morning of the end of the month and I feel stuck in decision paralysis between "pivot back to 7F and record another Butterfly scene to attach a fappable snack to this post" or "focus on releasing the next iteration of 10F playtest today."
Since I'm choosing the latter, there's just a few random (tame, to avoid any Patreon hassle) 10F images I'll contextualize at the end, but first the actual status report:
Bo finished a 10F prototype with basically a placeholder story a while ago. It was then MTL'd for a potential release/standalone candidate just to release something. Naturally, I hate that, especially for an important floor/character like Rose.
After an initial playtest revealed some critical issues anyway, the person handling the MTL release agreed for me to do a sort of "triage" to fix the most problematic elements.
Last week we started the new playtest for a potential release candidate. It's going well insofar as the playtesters are good at findings bugs, but hasn't gone as quickly as hoped (we wanted to finish within that week) due to code and other issues being revealed.
The good news is we/I've structured the playtest to enable a hard deadline in August. That is: I'm migrating my fixes/overhauls one chunk at a time (the 10F gameplay is "node" based, so this is fairly easy) so that they (ie. it's not my decision, which should comfort most of you) can ultimately decide a given version is good enough (by their standards, not mine) for the initial release.
tl;dr - some form of 10F should be available soon. When it does, I'll decide whether I continue to tweak it before or after other major priorities based on how I feel about it(eg. 7F, 8/9F merge). Don't ask me for an exact date since I've been muzzled from giving one.
Now some preview context:
The file size screenshot (1.27 GB) is of Rose's CG folder. I don't mind getting flamed/insulted for my constant delays and bad communication, but I hate when it splashes back onto Bowei, who is a machine with an insane work ethic. Ask any playtester or anyone who's ever seen his stream if you don't trust me. He finished his part of 10F (including tons of amazing, fully spine-animated cgs) months ago, so be nice (to him). I have a lot of misgivings with the floor in its current state but the production value via Bowei is nonetheless incredible.
The mature ladies are just to indicate that, like 7F, there's some cast/action beyond the main character (Rose). It is overwhelmingly Rose, still.
The Rose images are just hot.
(ps. I'll be following this with a more personal-stuff Patreon-only progress report for people wondering what-da-Koda-doing, but wanted to keep the main one concise/actionable wrt Floor10 progress.)