WIP 15: Sofia's perfect dress + ruthless wind + going commando = Very risky combination! (free edition)

Hi everyone, and welcome to WIP 15!

First things first, we are late with the release. For those who want to read the full breakdown of why, the details are at the bottom of this post. Suffice it to say, we are actively working on the game, as you can see from all our recent activity, and we will release it as soon as possible.

To make it up to our community, anyone who has been a Sinner at any point since the release of the Demo will receive Episode 2. This applies regardless of whether your subscription is active at the moment or not. Whether you subscribed for just one month back in June, or downgraded from the highest tier to the lowest tier along the way, you will still receive the download link corresponding to your highest tier when it Episode 2 drops! This is our small way of saying thank you to everyone who supported us, and a huge apology for our tardiness with this release.

We also want to give a massive thanks to everyone who helped us with our Reddit plea. We now have enough karma to post and advertise the game freely, which should help greatly with our overall reach.

That being said, you are all in for a treat today. The renders of Sofia in the winning outfit from last weekend's vote are finally ready! Sofia is quickly becoming a fan favourite on our socials. What do you think of her? Why do you think she is stealing the spotlight?

Also, we will start putting hearts and self censoring all images that have even a slight chance of triggering Patreon's censor AI to avoid our posts being taken down. All uncensored images can be found either on our discord or on socials that allow it.

Due to the high probability of spoilers, here is a very small story teaser narrated directly from Sofia's perspective:

"What am I doing?
Why would SHE suggest this dress, and why on earth did I agree?
Do I really ...

(continuation in WIP 15)

For those interested in the behind-the-scenes details, our delay is multi-fold:

Firstly, we had the story for Episode 2 planned in full before we even released the demo. It had a sensible beginning and end, and all scenes were preplanned. We realised early on that one specific scene with Bianca (the waterfall scene) had to be moved to Episode 3 because the content felt too early for the story. Every other scene had its trajectory mapped out. However, once we started creating them, the actual number of renders exploded past our initial expectations. Since the biggest critique of Episode 1 was that certain scenes felt too fast-paced, we wanted to avoid rushing the story at all costs.

Secondly, our main rendering computer has been giving us a blue screen of death ever since we returned from vacation. It is not crashing constantly right now, but that is only because we completely abandoned the batch rendering queue. We tried using Batchflow, which is the only program that works with Daz 6, but it crashed every single time after a single render. We spent days troubleshooting it to no success. Things were stable until last week, when the crashes returned during prolonged, constant rendering sessions for animations. Right now, we are saving our progress every 24 hours and hoping for the best.

And the third and the biggest hurdle is Vice's day job. Her company is currently launching their product. Because she holds a key role there, alongside a massive influx of new AI tasks they just pushed onto her team, she is stuck working a lot of mandatory overtime. As our renpy programmer who built our completely bug-free demo, it is incredibly difficult to move forward without her active involvement.

Furthermore, our long-term plan was for Vice to take over our social media platforms so I could focus entirely on speeding up the rendering process. Because of her current time constraints, those plans were derailed, and I have had to take over all social media management. Posting across multiple platforms, dozens of Discord servers, and a dozen subreddits takes up a massive chunk of my day. We are trying to streamline this as much as possible, but it remains a tedious yet necessary process.

We are pushing to finish as soon as possible, and hopefully, we will have good news for you soon. We will not give any date again until the build is finished, to avoid putting a foot in our mouth again!!!

Thank you all again for your incredible patience and unmatched support!

Vows and Vices

Read the full update HERE.