ALISHIA 

Hey everyone. I will cut straight to the chase with a quick TL;DR for those wondering about The Red Room's fate.

In the middle of 2024, I lost a year and a half of progress on The Red Room update. Combination of my own negligence and some unfortunate real-life circumstances outside my control. I was basically back to square one with that update. It absolutely destroyed me. I tried picking it back up repeatedly over a few months – nothing worked. I burned myself out completely and couldn't touch anything gamedev related for almost a year after.

So yeah, The Red Room is cancelled, I'm really sorry for that. Really fucking sorry. You could have probably deduced this from my absence, but I want to make it official. I wish I could go back and handle this differently, wish I could have been brave enough to face you all sooner rather than hiding. The Red Room deserved better than what happened to it. You all deserved better.

At the time I did a lot of thinking about what happened. I've came to a hard realization: The Red Room's style of game just isn't feasible for me. I can't make 100-150 images per update with my render style and not have it turn into year-long updates with 20 minutes of gameplay. Which always resulted in this very bad loop:

Rinse and repeat. Every single time. I genuinely couldn't work like that anymore. It did real damage to my mental health, which obviously didn't help with working either. I considered making smaller, faster updates. But Red Room REALLY wasn't built like that. I can't update the game with 1/4 of a big event made, do I?

With many other compounding issues: losing of progress on the update, me overgrowing DAZ in my skills and wanting to get better at my craft, my declining mental health at the time and feeling like a failure, not being able to withdraw money from Patreon and even being scammed by people who said they could help, losing a year and a half of income from that site as a result, I've decided that I should just stop everything, and get a normal job – which I did. That’s why I didn’t touch anything gamedev related for almost a year.

Hey!
The main part of the news section is that the release of the update is still scheduled for the end of the year, no delays! (at least for now)
It will contain around 60 images and will consist mostly of things to do in the house, the use of items etc. Originally I wanted this update to be a part 1 of 2 of the updates of the same theme, as the house still feels a little bit empty, but. I've seen that most people want to see Kendra in the game again. And they want to see the plot moving forward. Well, I'm doing exactly that! The next update is the Kendra and Mia (TM) update. It will consist of a one big scene spanning a whole day which will re-introduce Kendra and Mia back into the game, and at least in the planning stage, I feel like it's going to consist of like 60-100 images in itself. It's not going to introduce Mia and Kendra into the freeroam section of the game, as it's a big can of worms I want to do after the Kendra update.

And a little preview from the coming update. Lisa discovering a condom used on the statue in the library.

Thank you for being here and being so supportive. I hope to see you in December with an update!  

Hey!
Sorry for keeping you waiting. I've had a sudden opportunity to get away from my country (Russia) for some time to get some things done. I was trying to get a foreign bank account to make my project future-proof when an inevitable sanction will make me unable to receive money even from SS or Boosty and maybe even make a start of new life outside of Russia. Those months weren't that fruitful, because, as you can see, I'm back home.
But I did kind of solve some things regarding the bank account problem. I'm able to receive money from Patreon from time to time as of right now (like, maybe a few times a year). It does make my life somewhat easier, but it's not that "future-proof" as I would like. In the meantime - I'm back home. Working again. And again, sorry for suddenly dissapearing, the opportunity was really brief and my head at the moment was only filled with plans on how to proceed.
This little preview is an image from the next update. And I'm setting the release date to the end of December. I need to get my bearings straight and get into the working pace again. Collect everything I've done and plan out/do everything that needs to be done. I think a month and a half is going to be enough time for that.  

Hey!

The update for The Red Room is here. It was supposed to come out in 3 months, but it took around 6. Not a great result, but it's better than it was before. There were some hurdles along the way, the most visible of which for you is all that Patreon bullshit. I hope there won't be any more problems along the way, and the next update will come out, finally, on time. This new update isn't big, but I hope it's a beginning of something bigger - consistentcy in updates.

Next update, or 0.6, has a deadline of the beginning of May. The theme of update is going to be "small things". Want to go through other people's stuff looking for their panties? Want to see some changes to Lisa after increasing her desire to high enough point? Want to use your swimsuit to hangout with Sasha and Nina at the pool? Well, this update will cover you!

I will also be making a 100% walkthrough document somewhere along the way of developing this new update. It will be accessible to patrons of Bishop tier and higher, to make the value for the patrons on those tiers higher.

Now finally about the update itself:

- Only fresh saves, okay? The way I'm developing the game, with all the timesensitive events and everything - I can't really see the way to fully implement save-complatibility for now. Maybe after a few more updates I will make a "jump to the second week" button when starting the game with far-enough saves.