Hey folks,
Just another check-in to let you all know what's what...
POLL Results
Thanks to everyone that took part in the recent polls. They are now closed, but here are the results:
Older ladies:
Monica&Zarah&Elaine (49%); Monica&Elaine (27%); Monica only (10%); Elaine only (7%); Monica& Zarah (4%); Zarah and Elaine (2%); Zarah only (1%)
Pretty interesting, but sort of in line with what I was expecting.
Younger ladies:
Remember, this one allowed multiple choices, so the sum of the results will be add up to more than 100%.
66% of you want to date Jenna all the way to the end. 40.5% chose Katie, 40% for Lily, 35% for Debbie, 28% for Jolina, 15% for Angel, 13% Natasha, 12% for Wanda, 11.8% for Bella.
This one had a few surprises including some of the individual scores for each girl, plus a few other interesting points, such as:
1) Natasha is more popular than Wanda and Bella, and almost as popular as Angel and Jolina. I was surprised at this, but I'm now glad that I decided to feature Natasha in episode 25. Although she doesn't feature as much as some of the others, at least she is in there.
2)For those that chose Angel, only a little over half (53%) ALSO chose Wanda. And for those that chose Wanda, 59% also chose Angel.
I actually assumed more people thought of these as a "pair", i.e. if you were dating one, you'd date the other, so in one way... it's a surprise that a lot less people are on the threesome route, but on the other hand... at least it means that people consider them unique enough, that it wasn't a foregone conclusion that they come as a pair. So from a writing / character development perspective I'm happy. But overall, only 7% of people chose to end the game dating both, so that's a LOT of threesome script written that will be lost to people. :) :)
3)Speaking of other pairs... For everyone that chose Bella, 70% also chose Jolina. But interestingly, for those that chose Jolina, only 30% also chose Bella. This makes me glad that I gave them their own solo scenes as well as a duo scene
4) For those that chose Bella, a LOT (I mean a LOT) of you also chose at least ONE girl that is not compatible with her, so there will be some choices that you will have to make in episode 25. OR (hopefully a lot of you will choose this route), you can enjoy more than one playtrhu of episode 25, so see how things pan out with her and the non-compatible girl(s).
5) For those that chose Jenna, two thirds of you ALSO chose Katie (In total 28% of people are still dating both).
6) 18% of you chose to date Jenna, Katie, Lily AND Debbie.
7) Only a fraction of you (2.5%) went for all 9 younger girls.
8) For the 5 girls involved in the sixsome scene, a very small amount chose all 5 (3%)... which makes me wonder am I wasting my damn time! :) :) Just kidding... this scene will cover a LOT of combos (one girl, two girls, three girls, etc. of your choosing) so I hope you appreciate the maths / paths that is going into this... :)
Please, let me know if there are any other stats that you are interested in.
Note 1: I did say the results of these polls won't cause me to cut anything out of my episode 25 plans, and that remains true. However, based on these results, for some of the more popular paths, we will try to squeeze in an extra animation or two...
Note 2: A couple of people asked for reminder images for who each girl is (as they have forgotten who's who), so I'll take that feedback on board and ensure future polls have images.
Note 3: Someone asked why Theresa wasn't included in the polls. This is because she will NOT appear in episode 25. However, this does not mean you will never see her again... She will get her own epilogue scene in the future. And just to clarify, I don't mean a futuristic / Sci-fi scene :) :), I just mean I'll produce a dedicated scene for her at some stage AFTER episode 25 is released.
Episode 25 progress:
We got through a LOT of art AND a shitload of writing over the past 10 days. Centurion is still working on the art for the Wanda / Angel scene (still looking great), while Cell and I are doing the art for the rest, although I'm still spending the majority of my time on writing. There were no issues of note to call out last week (or so far this week), so overall, I'm happy with how things have been going recently.
I did promise you a full list of completed versus uncompleted scenes this week, but I'm going to hold off on that for this update, and will include it in the next update. The reason for that is that I am still working on multiple scenes simultaneously, but I plan on fully closing out a few this week, so the complete / incomplete list will make a lot more sense if I post it in the next update. From a line count perspective...
For context: Just a reminder of some previous episode sizes:
Episodes 1-3 were 1,600 lines each.
Episode 6 was 3,000 lines.
Episode 16 was 7,000 lines.
Episode 22 was 12,000 lines.
Episode 23 was 17,000
Episode 24 was 22,000 lines.
Episode 25: On 7th September, it was at 27,000 lines. Now it's at 32,000, so it's gone up 5K in a month. Plenty of this 5K was already planned out, so I wasn't writing from scratch, but I am still very happy with the output.
So line count WILL not be a problem... I'm exceeding my writing (and art) targets each month. My only problem is that every scene is ending up a lot bigger than originally planned, with a lot more combos / paths to cover. But if we keep going at the rate we have been... we are still on target to meet the end of November goal for the full release.
But after this week, there is no point using line count as our weekly success criteria (Nobody wants a 100K lines episode sometime in 2028 :) ). The primary target now is to close off ALL scenes. So, after this update, going forward, each week, I'll measure success and track progress based on scene completion rate. Note: Just because the line count is a lot bigger than original plans, I am NOT going to cut anything short or remove stuff from my plans. This is the last episode, so I want to give everyone the ending they deserve and not cut corners.
As always, please let me know if any questions or comments (in the comments below or via a direct message) and I'll get back to everyone.
And just a reminder that a lot of answers / details (along with relevant links) can be found in my landing page here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/37183736
Thanks,
CG
Teasers:
I am going to keep teasers to a minimum, because most of our recent artwork has been on the two group scenes, and I want to avoid spoiling things by showing too much of what's going on. So here's a few teasers (across multiple scenes)