Delay...

I'm so sorry, but I still haven't managed to get the release into a state that's ready for release. I typed out a big post to explain, but it just felt like giving excuses, so I'll just say that I'm still doing my best, and that I'll get the next release out to you as soon as I can. I also want to say that I know that these delays are completely unacceptable, and I fully understand if you want to stop supporting me, and please know that I'm extremely grateful for any and all support you've given.

I won't give a release date for this next version again, as I keep on utterly failing to stick to them. I'll get it released as soon as I possibly can, and I'll make weekly progress reports to let you know what's going on. Sorry again for letting you down once again, and at the last minute at that.

More Progress News (Another delay...)

I know that I said in my previous post that I was very confident that there'd be no more delays, but I ended up getting a little side-tracked (by adding some more content for Vicky and a couple of other things), so as a result of that I'm still a little ways off getting this main content finished. I'm really not going to be able to get it done in time for tomorrow, and considering that I also want to get some more PRs merged before the release I'm going to have to delay it again.

Once again, I'm very tempted to delay it by just a few days, but I know that it's going to end up taking longer than that, so I'm going to say that it'll be another week before release. I hate to keep doing this to you, but I really don't want to put out this version until I've got the main quest content finished, so now please expect the release of v0.4.8 to be the evening of Saturday, 25th March.

Thank you once again so much for your patience and support. I really am doing my best to get this version out to you as soon as possible, and this time I really, really can't see any reason for any more delays...

Progress News

Hello again,

I really am so sorry about how long this update is taking me to get done. I've been making progress on it, but things have been quite difficult for me recently, so that's why it's been far slower than normal. Anyway, I've decided that I'll get the preview version released to you by this time next week, no matter what state it's in.

Thank you all so, so much for your patience during this time. I've been doing my best to get this version completed, and will continue to do so until the release next Saturday (11th)!

P.S. There's some talk about blogger rolling out some heavy-handed age verification, so if you soon find yourself unable to access this blog, then I post all of the same information on my SubscribeStar (https://subscribestar.adult/innoxia). You can also keep track of what's going on by joining the LT discord.

Edit (Saturday, 11th): I'm almost there, but I still have quite a few bugs to fix and then some PRs to merge, so the release will be tomorrow night (Sunday) instead. Sorry!

Edit (Sunday, 12th): The bugs are taking longer to fix than I expected, due to there being so many of them. I'll have to delay the release again, but it will be out no later than Tuesday (14th)!

Edit (Tuesday, 14th): Aaaah! There are still bugs that I'm working on, but it really won't be much longer now! I'm so, so sorry about all these delays!!!

Another delay...

Hello again,

Unfortunately, I've still got some stuff left to finish off before I can get this preview version into a state that's ready for release. I'll do my very best to get it out as soon as I possibly can, but it's looking like it'll be another few days. I'm really sorry about this, and thank you for your patience!

A little more delay...

I'm really sorry about this, but I still haven't managed to get the preview version of v0.4.4.5 into a state that's ready for release. I ended up changing some aspects of the next stage of the main quest, and that's set me back a little. I'd better not give another fixed release date to avoid more disappointment, but I really should be able to get this preview version released within the next few days. I'm really sorry again, and my next post will definitely be the release post, so I'll see you there very soon!

Edit (Sunday, 24th): Thank you all so much for your patience; I've been a little stuck on how best to implement some of the content for this next stage of the main quest, but I really am almost done now. It shouldn't be too much longer!

Another Small Delay...

I really hate to be doing this, but I'm going to have to delay this update by another few days...

I've got 95% of the tavern content done, but I still need to test it and then fill in quite a few placeholder scenes. I've been working as fast as I can to get this done, but once again I underestimated how long it takes to get new content added.

It really shouldn't take me more than a few days to get this completed, and even if it's not in a totally completed state by then, I'll still release this version with placeholders if needed. As such, v0.4.4 will be out no later than the night of Tuesday, 22nd.

Once again I'm really sorry about these delays. I'll do my very best to get everything completed for the release on Tuesday...

Progress News

Hello again,

Sorry about missing the post I was meant to put out on Sunday; everything's still quite chaotic for me at the moment, and so I didn't have any news to share with you. I'm going to have to put the release date of v0.4.2.5 back to Monday (20th), as I'm really struggling to make progress on Lilith's Throne at the moment. I'm really sorry about this big delay.

Thank you all for your patience. I'll see you again in the next post, which should be the preview release post on Monday. I'm really sorry once again for this big delay.

Edit: Sorry, but I'll have to push it back by another day, so I'll now have the preview out tomorrow (Tuesday 21st)...

Another Delay...

I'm really sorry about this, but getting this content finished has once again taken far longer than I expected. I've got all of the framework, placeholders, and mechanics completely done, but I haven't yet finished the associated content in Elis's Shopping Precinct. Getting that into a playable state is going to take at least another day, possibly more, so I'm not going to be able to get the preview release out tonight.

To show you that I've made progress on this new area, I've pushed my current build to github's dev branch, so if you wanted to read through the code I've been adding, you can see it here: https://github.com/Innoxia/liliths-throne-public/commit/183006c1a4fc5d79f1fab5b53eeb9288bf6d6539 (I'd advise against building it to play at the moment, as it likely contains several game-breaking bugs, which I'm going to be fixing for the preview update...)

For those of you who'd rather get the tl;dr version of what specifically I've been working on and what's been taking so much of my time, I'll put it at the end of this post (so those of you who want to avoid spoilers can skip over it).

So, anyway, I'm going to get this Elis content finished and linked to this new area over the next couple of days, and I'll get the preview out to you as soon as it's ready. I really am sorry for giving all these deadlines and then missing them. I just end up panicking a little and trying to rush when it's already taken me so long to get the next update released.

I'll make another post on Thursday night, hopefully with the preview release, but if not then at least with more information on what I've got done. Thank you all for your patience.

New Area Spoilers!

So for those of you who want to know what exactly it is I've been working on, I decided to add a side quest to the first Shopping Precinct NPC I started to add. This side quest involves retrieving a breast pump from the NPC's old workplace out in the Foloi Fields. This workplace is the new area which I've been adding, and takes the form of an industrial dairy farm.

Although I originally only intended this new area to be a quick stop where you'd retrieve the breast pump and then immediately head back to Elis, I started to feature creep it by adding an internal map and a unique NPC for the farm's owner. I then thought that players would want to see (and have sex with) the farm's employees, so I moved on to adding that. After that was done, I thought that it would be nice to work there as one of the cows being milked, so I added that, and then expanded the initial 'enter barn and get milked' into a promotional system which leads you through 3 barns. After that, I added a new (very easily avoidable) bad end at the end of this content. Then I felt like having just a generic receptionist being referred to but not existing as an interactable NPC was boring, so I went back and added a new NPC (and new 'donkey' subspecies), and then updated all of the references involving the nameless receptionist. Then I thought people would want multiple ways to have sex with this new NPC, so I went back and added support for that, and then after all of this was finally finished (tonight) I remembered that I hadn't yet finished the original Elis NPC quest content, so I couldn't get this preview released after all.

So, it was basically just a cascade of feature creeping, and now the farm which I've added has ended up with far more content than I originally intended (and a lot of writing to get done...). As mentioned above, I should be able to get the Elis content finished within a couple of days, and then I'll do some testing and get the preview out to you as soon as I can...

Another couple of days...

I'm really sorry about this, but I seem to have once again invoked the curse of incremental delays by giving out an optimistic release date. I've been working as fast as I can on the Meraxis & centaur transport content, but it's simply taken me longer to get the dialogue frameworks implemented and tested than I expected.

I've got the aforementioned content frameworks finished, but I'll need another couple of days to get the demonic centaur encounters into a working state, and as soon as that's done I'll release the preview with placeholder dialogue. I'll then get a preview hotfix out as soon as possible after that to fill in the placeholders.

I'm sorry for not only how long this is taking but also for disappointing you all again with another missed deadline. I won't give a fixed deadline for 0.4.0.5, but it really shouldn't be more than 2-3 days now...

Delay again

I really hate disappointing you all, but I'm going to have to delay v0.3.7 for a little while longer. I don't know why I always do this, but I've ended up expanding the planned content for Helena's romance quest to a point where it's now even further away from being finished than it was three days ago...

I don't think I should give another date for the release, as I'll just let you down at the last minute again. I'll make another progress post mid-week next week to let you all know how it's going.

A million apologies for yet another disappointment and delay...