The Confession v0.4 Update

Development for The Confession v0.4 is well on it's way.

I'm currently wrapping up the writing and I expect the writing will be finished today (leaving the art and animations...). I know that writing for a lot of people is considered a 'minority of the work', but I like to really take my time with it to create an immersive story. Anyways, I originally committed to a bi-weekly schedule and I know it's been 3 weeks since The Confession v0.3... But, I have a reason! v0.4 is expected to have ~10K words (Arcs 1-3 have a combined total of 11K words). The release of v0.4 will likely triple the amount of renders in the game total and will have, hopefully, a few minutes of animations.

I had work that I could have released earlier in v0.4 and just stretched it out to more arcs but I decided against it. I realized when a game releases regularly with small updates, it ruins the immersion of emotional moments. So I've opted to go for a somewhat monthly release. Rest assured, I've been working on the game every day!

This next update will be the first update with NSFW scenes! Additionally, I am in the process of commissioning non-spoken voice acting, meaning voice acting without sound. Since the heroine isn't voiced the entire game, it feels wrong to suddenly voice her. But I do like the immersion of a female voice and the inclusion of other SFX (tastefully, of course). And I will provide a toggle to turn off both voices and SFX, assuming that they aren't put together in the same sound files. Additionally, I'm working on adding grammar to the game on a toggle command for those that hate lowercase letters~

How long it takes to finish is probably going to rest on how long it takes to animate the scenes and incorporate the voice acting. I'm estimating 2-3 weeks but it could even be less. For reference, the animation in the park (my first multi character animation) took me over five hours to complete (and it lasted about 8-10 seconds). I would expect the animations in the next arc to take somewhere between 50-100+ hours. Rest assured you will not see several minutes of 2 second animations looping!

I am very happy with the story, the VA I've talked to, and the general direction of the NSFW scene in this arc. The only thing it's coming down to is whether or not my art skills are up to the task of animating my vision. And well, I guarantee you they will be - or I won't release. The only question is... how long will it take? 

Hopefully 2-3 weeks! See you then <3