Our first official development report hosted on substar! :O I'd like to begin by first saying, a big thank you to everyone who has been helping out in anyway possible with the abdl community in response to the Patreon purge. <3

Thank you to everyone who has decided to support us here on substar and even a few on our pixiv fanbox page! <3

It really does mean a lot to us on the Messy Studios team working on Messy Academy. We've been working on the project for 4 years now with 2 more to go roughly before the base game is complete. We already have DLC content planned and a future project in mind that'd be everything you can expect from the polished quality from MA once it's done and more!

Despite Patreon leaving us in a awkward spot with funding for December and leaving it up to fate as to how funding will look into January. We are still continuing development on MA! It will be a tiny bit rough than we had planned, but please understand that the support we receive during December and January will have a impact on how we proceed with things.

The first thing to be cut from development based on lack of funding would be cg art due to it's expensive costs. Naturally we want to avoid this and our $900 goal on a monthly basis will allow us to easily keep everyone on the team paid and this would cover the cg art each month for new content. 

One last thing before we dive into the rest of this post. We're asking all of our fans, supporters, followers where ever you align yourself. Please be sure to spread the word around the community for others who are looking to follow or support us since the Patreon purge. We've been trying to do our best to reach out to everyone, but there's still some people's comments at times that suggest our messages haven't reached them. Thank you everyone! <3

[~Messy Studios Team~]
[~Dev Plans & Story~]

Our plan was to keep the v0.20 series of releases coming along and handle it in a fitting way for supporters past or present during November, but of course now we have no access to any of our past Patreon supporters history due to the purge.

The past few days has been extremely wild, so forgive us for the unsure nature as to what will happen with the rest of v0.20 releases that were planned prior to the purge.

I'll keep it plain and simple, below is roughly our plan with the v0.20 series

v0.20 pt 1 & 2 [Released for public Dec 7-8th]
v0.20 pt 3 [Released for supporters Dec 7-8th]

v0.20 pt 3 [Released for public Dec 14-15th]
v0.20 pt 4 [Released for supporters Dec 14-15th]

v0.20 pt 4 [Released for public Dec 23-24th]

We'll also be doing a short novel xmas themed story featuring Allie & Rosa that's planned for Dec 24th. (This is outside of the game content.)

This is not how we normally do new game version releases. Our goal we strive for heading into 2024 after this is to return things to normal, where v0.21 is planned for roughly late January for supporters only. Then with v0.22 planned around late February, at the same time as v0.22 releasing. v0.21 would become free to the public.

That's how we typically handle supporter vs public free game versions, with the goal of new content every 30-45 days. (This will be easier to handle moving into 2024, since the rest of the game is focused on route episodes, which are a bit smaller than past episodes, but still good sized.)

Bear with us during December into the new year, but we're going to keep posts coming at a steady rate that covers all ranges of our support tiers and benefits. We really want to make sure we don't miss a thing

Let's check with the rest of the team!

[~CG art~]

MarxeDP & AjoseMP have been focusing on updating the cg art in the new style, but there's some new cg scenes in progress coming along for our future content. They've been able to update some stuff during November and while I want to share a in progress preview of the xmas themed short novel featuring Allie and Rosa now, it would ruin the surprise for Christmas. :P

Our plan for December on cg art is to keep getting a few cg scenes updated with some new variants and work on the few cg scenes that's been paid for in the past month or two, but we're waiting until January to see how we proceed with ordering new cg art and how it might impact things.

However, a little teaser for our fans to see some art stuff. Below is how our updated cg scene art style stuff has been coming along. The goal with all of this, is making it so the new art seen on the right, is better matched with the character's sprite art.

[~Sprite art~]

Lisa has officially wrapped up all of the sprite characters that needed updated! ^^ This includes: Mystery character, John, Sadie, Evelyn. Along with any oc characters we didn't have updated in the new style. (We'll be sharing previews of these sprites during December!)

Sprite art is getting pretty close to being finished for the game! There's a special outfit for cast that's story related, very minor spoiler additions for cast. Both of which should be handled within a month of work. (Possibly January/February.)

From there, it's a 4-5 parent sprites and that finishes all sprite work needed on the game! We're thinking sometime in Spring this will be finished.

During December, Lisa I believe is taking the month off for the holidays.

[~GUI~]

ds-sans finished up the finalized save/load gui screens in November! They're now working on the cg gallery screen and with the upcoming holidays, I don't expect that to be finished this month. If it does however, that brings us to 2-3 gui assets remaining I believe. ^^

We'll be holding off on adding more gui into v0.20 releases, as there's some polish and issues to fix with the new textbox ui and the fancy hide textbox button causing crashes. ^^" Expect v0.21 to have these fixed up and some new gui screens added.

[~Ending~]

There's a lot going on in December with wrapping up our v0.20 release series, trying to reach out to everyone to point them to sub star, a mix of new posts and trying to re-upload some old Patreon posts in a new way. There's a lot of stuff to do still with getting this page exactly how we want it to look and feel, but little by little, we'll rebuild it!

If this is your first time joining along and you enjoy the project, please do consider supporting us on Subscribestar if you aren't already! Plenty of exclusive posts are made, at least 3-4 new posts every week!

Keep yourself informed and updated on development by following Subscribestar notifications or bookmarking our >Guide Post< You can also continue to keep updated through our Itch.io page or Twitter as well!

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~ From all of us at Messy Studios! ~