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With Tegan, that depends on what you want the story to be with her. If you want the relationship to transfer from being casual hookups to something more, have sex with her during the pledge week. If you want the relationship to move from being friends into something more, wait. There's not a right or wrong way, but obviously having sex with her earlier means more scenes you won't get the opportunity for if you wait.

The Bonnie appears as part of the Bobbie choice, so you've also got to have a good score with Bobbie to open it up. Maybe I should have mentioned that before, my bad. But there'll be a future path that doesn't require a good Bobbie score, the choice in the Jess conversation will just alter Jess' involvement really.

For Imogen if you've got a good score and "Enquire further" at the skatepark you'll get the option to kiss her.

Okay, so first you'll need a decent amount of points with each girl to open up most paths, so so take that as a precursor to everything below. Points are easy enough to accumulate, just be nice/friendly in most cases and you'll get enough points. In some cases you won't be able to pursue multiple girls in one playthrough, so if you're aiming for a specific girl prioritize her over all others just to be safe.

To get onto Tegan's path you need to pick her over Rosie to be a geography study partner.

Bobbie's path gets started when you say "You think so?" to Jess after the Bobbie/Bonnie beer pong scene.

Bonnie's path can get started at the same time by saying instead "I think I prefer Bonnie" but there will be another onboarding moment later, too. (but right now there's no bonnie path/content yet, but that is technically a start point)

For Imogen's path you need to kiss her at the skatepark.

That's it for now for main girls (Alice, Ava, Ellie are all still to come - though technically getting Ellie's nude during the pledge week would be smart for her, but it's not a path starter). Then for side girl scenes so far, you need to have Chloe win the twerk competition to unlock the opportunity for her scene; for Lucy's scene you need to have gotten her nude in the pledge week, then flirt with her at the gym; for Mariah's scene you need to lose beer pong to Lucy; and Lauren's scene is optional if you don't have sex with Tegan during the pledge week but still want to be the one to complete the task.

That's about it, for now, I believe. Let me know if you've still got any questions, I'm always more than happy to help!

I don't have a walkthrough at the moment, but I can work on one when I get the time possibly for the next release. It's designed to all be a little obfuscated, but I'm aware that can be frustrating for people who are just trying to see everything. In the meantime, let me know what bits you're struggling with, and I can help you with what you need to do!

This seems to be the consensus from what I've seen from people. As long as the update makes meaningful progression in some way, be that story or relationships, people didn't seem to have a strong desire for a particular update length.

It was more that as long as the length of time spend making the update is justified by the content of it, rather than the actual amount of 'content' within. So longer but with a lot of meaningful things was good, shorter but still with notable progression also good.

Which is more or less my opinion too, so it's nice to know I think similarly to others.

Lucy and Chloe are for sure some of the more prominent side LIs, they'll both have a fair amount more content. And don't worry, you're not the first to be disappointed Lucy isn't a main LI, she's certainly got a lot of fans

Sure, and happy holidays to you too! Hope you've had a good week so far!

There are 8 main LIs are those 3, as well as Alice, Ava, Bobbie, Bonnie and Imogen. Those are the girls who get variants of the ending, although there will also be more prominent side girls who might get as much content, but just don't have there own version of the ending.

Yes, you will be able to as the story progresses

Hi! Thank you for playing. No discord yet, but I plan on having one by the release of the next update

Yeah, and I know that can be a little frustrating for people who want to see all the scenes, but it is intentional, as I want there to be some obfuscation as to what outcomes will come from the choices made. However, this is only really for first playthroughs to be fair, so I can work on a small walkthrough/scene guide for the future to clear up similar confusion. Thanks!

Yeah okay that one's kinda easy to miss without realizing what exactly you've missed because there's a specific single choice that sets it up and tbf it's not clear. So first you'll need a good score with Bobbie before the beer pong scene with the twins, and then pick "You think so?" when Jess asks you about her after the match. That'll lead to you setting up a date with Bobbie, and the scene follows from there (assuming you agree to stay the night at the end of the date, you do get a choice to not, but obviously that wouldn't unlock the scene)

I can do! I hadn't planned for making one, but it's certainly something I can work on. But for now if you want to ask here I can help you out with whatever you're missing!

Hello! I don't currently have a discord, but it has been asked about enough that I'm looking into it. Haven't used discord since ~2020 and even then it was very briefly, so I've no idea what goes into it, particularly from the creating-a-server side of things. Essentially will look to have one at least by the time of the next update.

So for now aside from here the only other thing I have is a patreon where I'm posting weekly dev logs, but that requires financial support. I will be putting monthly-ish (there should be one this weekend) dev logs up here on itch, too, as usual, so don't feel pressured to support or anything. But that is the best way to keep up to date until I eventually get a discord server started once I more know what I'm doing with it.

Thank you for playing! Ellie yes, Lucy no.

Don't worry, all will be revealed in due time. I've designed the whole game so that if you're paying attention, you can probably work out what's happened/going to happen, but I'm trying to not make it all too obvious/predictable. But it's all building to one thing, and I'm hoping we'll get there sooner than later, but we'll see!

Oh I'm sure everything will be fine and there'll be no consequences at all.

On a serious note, thank you! This update was quite hard work because of all of the branching, and it's only going to get more complex from here.

I'm really happy that you enjoyed!

Thank you!

Maybe things will become clearer for you after chapter 3! Or maybe it'll make the choice harder ...

Thanks! I was really happy with how it turned out, nice to see people like it! And don't worry, Tegan gets her time in the chapter for sure.

Thank you!

Definitely next month. Should have an official release date announcement within a week. But as a guess for now it'll be around the 10th of August.

Things will become clearer in due time. Don't worry about it.

Yeah I'm not burning out on this any time soon. I think that's one of the benefits of having everything pretty much planned out way in advance, I'm not running into many, if any, writing blocks. It's just producing the visuals that are the bottleneck for releases.

My hope with that visual foreshadowing is that it isn't going to make things too obvious, but will be enough that once certain things are revealed in the future people will maybe replay/remember parts of the game and go 'oh, that all makes sense now' as to when things like that appear. I'm hoping that it doesn't all feel too predictable (people might have an idea of where things are going, but not be able to completely guess) and that I'm not overdoing it, but we'll see! I'm glad that this has drawn some intrigue from you, those flashes are there to make you think.

And thanks for playing, I really appreciate it!

I sure hope so! I like to think I'm only getting better at this, so you'll hopefully love chapter 3 when it's ready!

Don't worry, I'm definitely not rushing any of it! I'm going to make sure that everything's good before any release. But I am excited to get to later parts of the story etc. so the quicker I can release updates the better for everyone. I'm not going to cut corners or anything, though, don't worry; the chapters will always be released when they're completely ready. I'm just hoping I'm getting more efficient at making them as time goes by.

The girls in the banner are what would be considered the main LIs. I'm not sure how other games define 'main' but in this that means you are able to form a relationship with them and they have an ending; side LIs are ones where there is no option for a committed, exclusive relationship. Some side LIs are, however, more prominent in the story etc. than some of the main LIs, so a girl being a main/side LI doesn't necessarily reflect how involved they are in the game, just whether or not there's a full relationship path and ending.

This is technically always subject to change if I have a better idea at some point, but at the moment that's how it stands. Hope that helps clear things up!

Thanks, I'm trying my best! As a fan of Lucy, I'm optimistic that you'll enjoy ch3 when it releases

Me too! I'm really excited to be in a position where I can justify buying a new computer to dedicate to producing the game even faster. It's going to significantly cut the remaining waiting time for ch3, and for all future chapters. So the wait should hopefully never be this long again!

Thank you for playing! I really appreciate it! I'd love to say ch3 is coming soon, but that'd be a lie. I'm hard at work on it, though, as I'd love to get updates out as quick as I reasonably can. So hopefully you won't have too long to wait!

Thanks a lot for the comment, I'm glad you've enjoyed the game so far! It's always nice when someone says they're invested in the story, helps me know I'm on that right track with things. I hope that you'll enjoy the future releases as well!

Hey thanks, that feels like such high praise, I really appreciate it. I like to think I've done a good job of character and world building so far, so hearing that you've enjoyed it is really gratifying. Things are still only getting started really, so hopefully the future releases will not disappoint!

Thank you for your kind words, I'm happy you discovered the game and enjoyed it.

I had planned to launch a patreon when I released ch2, but because it ended up taking me a lot longer to make than I'd have wanted it to, I decided I couldn't justify launching a patreon and asking people to support me/the game financially when I couldn't promise a consistent release schedule or anything like that. I still hope to launch a patreon some day, and the plan now in theory would be to launch one with the release of ch3, but that'll still only be if I feel comfortable with the idea of people financially supporting the game. And if I did launch a patreon, the updates would still always be free; I'm not going to lock anything behind a paywall even if/when I start monetizing the game.

As a side note, looking way, way into the future, there is one exception, that being an eventual steam release when the game's finished. My hopeful plan is to have this itch version get updated chapter by chapter until it's complete, then I'll take some time to remaster/rework whatever needs improving in the game (not story based, just visuals and coding) to make it all look and feel consistent across the chapters, then put that on steam as a complete work. But people will still be able to play the original version here for free if they just want the story and don't care if it looks dated or whatever. But that's all just a dream at the moment, of course.

I'll look into maybe promoting the game elsewhere, especially now that ch2 is out and I've received a lot of positive feedback, and I'll also consider making a little walkthrough/guide to coincide with the release of ch3. I'm designing the game to be one that you'd want to replay to see different things, but I do agree that giving people an optional guide to help them see what they want to see would be beneficial. But I will say I'd encourage people to do at least one blind playthrough just to see what story you get organically making decisions.

Hey thanks! The chapter 2 scene with Imogen is actually my personal favorite so far in the game, so it's nice to see that other people liked it too

You can kind of pick whoever you want to begin with, for instance it is possible as of ch2 to be pursuing all of the LIs simultaneously. Nothing's really been closed off yet. However, doing certain things will close off certain paths as the story goes on. And you will eventually have to commit to a single girl if you're not locked into a path already. But that's quite a way in the future still

Thanks for checking it out, glad you liked it! Hopefully the next chapter won't take as long to make this time around

Hey thanks, that's cool of you, I appreciate it

Yes, not far away. Currently working on the final scene of the chapter. Once I've finished rendering the images for that I'm going to release another dev log which will outline the final work I have to do, and give a release date. I'd say it's about two weeks away, roughly

Thanks for playing! Ch2 is close to completion, will be released in July (barring anything unfortunate happening). There's going to be one more dev log update before the release which will confirm a release date, but it's probably a couple of weeks away as my best guess

I'm looking forward to releasing it! I've got three slightly bigger scenes to work on (one of them is currently in progress rendering) and then ten smaller scenes still (but some of them will be only a few renders, so I could realistically get through multiple in a single day).

I'm always hesitant to put dates on things, because you never know what might happen, but I do feel comfortable saying that the end is in sight. Once all the renders are done I'd feel okay putting a timeframe on things, because after that it's just whatever remaining art postwork there is, and testing the game for errors/bugs/continuity issues which shouldn't take too long

Thanks so much for the kind words, it's nice to hear that you found the game memorable and enjoyable enough to come back to, despite the lack of update. I hope that when Chapter 2 comes you will enjoy that as well, and rest assured I'm in no way heading towards abandoning the project. I'm too excited about what's coming for that to happen. I'm very hopeful that future updates past Chapter 2 won't take as long as this one has, but either way I'm very committed to this project. It'll get finished at some point no matter what, and I'd love to be able to release updates much quicker, as there's so much story still to tell, but as with a lot of DAZ projects I am at the mercy of render times (as well as just how much time I personally can invest).

Thanks again for your comment, I appreciate that you liked Chapter 1, and hope that what's to come is worth the wait.

I haven't, but I wouldn't write it off. To be honest, I've not used discord since 2020, and even then it was only briefly so it's a bit of an unknown entity to me at this point. I am aware that most, maybe even all, of the developers of the games that I keep updated on do have them however, so it may be something I consider later down the line, perhaps after the release of chapter 2 if there is enough interest.