Hey, folks! Hope you're all having a great week so far.

Progress continues, and Gabby's love and friendship paths are mostly rendered now. Hallelujah. I still need to do the outro for each scene, but the setup and ero bits are done, which were the most substantial part. Still, another 50ish renders I think, and I'll be done there. For a little too-hot-for-public-posts teaser, you can take a look at Gabby's ero scene here.

After that, the task remains to finish coding everything, and touch up some dialogue. I've got this fun habit of writing a crappy line of narration or dialogue, and then putting a note next to it like: "## << this sucks fix it later you dumb-dumb" And as my weariness with the update grew, so too did the number of lines like that. :D Still, none of that should be too demanding.

The coding stuff will be slightly more annoying, but hopefully not too bad. I'm adding some features that have been previously requested, including stuff like a revamped save naming feature (and the ability to turn it off), the ability to navigate save/load by ten pages at a time, the ability to name your Season 1 export files, etc. These have all been tested in a test game file, but they still need to be implemented in the actual game. But I don't foresee any problems there.
So, with that in mind I'm working to have the alpha for Ch14 done by this upcoming Monday, the 18th. If I'm speedy, I'll have it out the day before.  So, that's that! I'm approaching the finish line, and I just need to avoid rolling my ankle -- metaphorically speaking. 

Finally, in tangential news.. I had a supporter reach out a few weeks ago, inquiring about making a 3D mousepad using some existing art of Risa. I told him to hang tight, and I'd make him some custom stuff that might work better. So, I did a couple of renders, and then also ran them through ChatGPT to create stylized 2D versions. Which you can see below!

As much as I enjoy the Daz style, I just felt like 2D art would serve this kind of thing better. And while I wouldn't want to use AI art in an official product, I felt like it'd be nice for a prototype. So, I hooked him up and told him to let me know what the final result looked like. And check out what he sent me, today!

How cool is that?!

Alright, I'll leave you with that today. But as always, take care of yourselves -- and thank you for your support!