Once again, sorry for the awkward timing of this post! ^^" Starting in September, we'll have our development report featured in the first week of every new month, then news posts will follow those through the month to keep everyone up-to-date.

Let's try to keep this development report short, as many of you are eagerly waiting for actual exciting news.

If you missed the announcement last month, the short version is that moving forward with the project. We're taking a smaller bite-sized update/release approach. New content every month, but expectations on how much content is delivered will be smaller than the past, but more stable and steady content flowing along.

If you missed this announcement, you can read it in full below for free.

https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1327411

Within that post, we highlighted that we'll be delivering 3 updates that wrap up the rest of episode 5 as a whole. The naming of these are confusing, so for simplicity sake... We'll just refer to them as "Update 1, update 2, update 3"

[~Release Date Confirmed!~]

Which dives into the main meat of what everyone has been waiting for! Update 1 is set to release by August 25th. We're giving it a tiny bit of extra time to be 150% sure that our following release "Update 2" is ready soon after that without any delay.

While we don't feel comfortable setting a date for update 2 yet, we should have a date announced for that before update 1 releases.

We want to get these 3 updates out asap just as much as everyone following along wants to enjoy them, but we're being very careful not to give anyone the wrong impression unless we know without a doubt that said update is ready.

Thank you once again to everyone who has been more than patient with us leading up to this point forward. We hope that our new approach is a great improvement than how things have been looking in the recent past. Stay tuned for any future news posts, as those will announce when update 2 & 3 has a confirmed date.

[~Team updates~]

It'll be pretty light on team updates this time around, as this month has mainly been focused on getting all the content put together and ready for releases. Which I think many won't be too upset about the lack of team updates in exchange for new content to play sooner. <3

SFX & Ambient Music

August has put a halt on sfx work, since we were under on funding for the month. It already looks like September should allow us to continue though, so no extreme worries there.

We'll be very excited to share and showcase how some of these sfx's sound with the update release. We've also went back through the earlier episode 5 content and added some of those in at fitting moments as well!

Earlier content will receive sound effects when we tackle the quality of life fixes being made to episode 1, 2, etc.

CG Art

Since early July, we've been totally in the dark as to what is going on with Ajose. All we know is that he is located in Venezuela and so you can make the connections with what was going on over there in past weeks or still on-going. Nothing is confirmed yet, if any of that has to do with him going silent. It could be a number of reasons and so for now, all we can do is speculate.

Neither Marxe or I can get in touch with him, so we're crossing our fingers that everything is okay.

For the time being, we have plenty of cg art to last us for many months worth of content and so there's no worries about the art with the project at this time. We are keeping in mind what our next step is, in case we simply don't hear back from him as time moves forward.

Until then, all far future cg art is completely halted as Marxe typically covers the coloring and background phases of cg scenes.

Sprite Art

Lisa has officially finished the secretive thing for us in the past week and we can't say much more without the risk of spoiling it. We'll fully unzip our lips in the first week of September with our 5th year anniversary post, so we hope everyone looks forward to that!

If you're a $5+ supporter, you've probably seen our recent support character named Juni. We had a ton of fun putting her together for overall design and outfits, but sadly I can't say too much openly here about her. >.<

We're continuing to work on some other stuff behind the scenes that can't be talked about yet, but as we head into September, we'll switch gears and have two exciting support characters that should surprise many with their additions. One more than the other, if you've paid attention to learn that one of them technically no longer exists during the current timeline of MA.

GUI Art

I've received a nice update from ds-sans in the past week, majorly as part of the "Extras" screen accessed from the title screen. There is going to be a in-game yearbook that can be accessed and it'll feature all the characters from students to staff/teachers, along with outsiders of the school.

When clicked on one of these character portraits in the yearbook, it'll pop a window up that'll showcase the character's sprite in full, along with their bios details. Some information within their bios for history might be [redacted] at first until you reach certain parts of the game's story for good reason, but we hope it'll be a nice addition to the "Extras" section for those who gush over more in-depth details about their favorite characters and everything!

[~Conclusion~]

The release date is most likely the big highlight for many and we totally without a doubt understand! It's just the start to our new approach in delivering content in a more realistic manner that fits the teams personal life schedules and we hope the steady flow of content per month will be leaps above how things have felt in recent months by a long shot!

Once again, I can't thank everyone for being more than patient and understanding. When our schedule allows for it, we'll attempt to sneak in one or two fun bonuses each year moving forward as a extra showcase of our thanks to everyone despite everything. <3

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