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Screw's News : 2024 recap, plans for 2025
🕑 Added 2025-01-03 18:08:06 +0000 UTCHello there, and happy new year everyone !!!
I hope you had a great time celebrating, I sure did, and I finally completly recovered from the food and alcohol orgy it was ! So now, with a new year around the corner, I wanted to speak about the year that went by, and what is planned forward !
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
Screw's work in 2024 :
The past year have been pretty busy, although a bit light when it comes to the number of updates. I started the year by releasing 0.09, which opened the nothern part of the map, and introduced new locations, mechanics and characters, as well as a continuation of the story. 0.10 followed after, adding more scenes and content to the new locations, and finished updating all the scenes to fit Illonia's new model. I then took two month without working on the game for the summer, to change my mind a bit, work on commissions, and also try to learn Blender.
During that period, I also did a big poll to see what should be the content of the 0.12 update, and the ones behind, to see what would be the next big think I should focus on. Without a real surprise, Pregnancy & Kids won by a landslide. It's something that have been requested for long, and I'm happy I'm gonna be able to focus on it next !
I also reworked a bit the tiers, and added the new options for the highest tier to suggest a scene for the game each month, and then for my supporters to vote for the one they'll like to see. That's a great way to get scenes that aren't too linked to the story, and just here to be enjoyed. And also to get some fresh new ideas ! But I've been really slow implementing those, so I need to catch up ^^'
On the other hand, the Blender test really didn't go as I hoped. While yes, I've learned the basics of it, portability between it and DAZ (the software I'm using currently) is really poor. I wanted to use to do more cum effects, better deformations and small things like that, but while I could transfer models and scenes from DAZ to Blender, the reverse seems impossible, and I can't fully switch to Blender (that would mean way too much work, and a shift in style. That's absolutly not what I want). So the Blender plan is scapped for the moment.
After that, I went back to work on the game, focusing on 0.11. It was planned as a small update, to just add a few small things here and there to polish the current content before diving into 0.12. But as I worked on it, it grew is size and scope, and became a pretty chunky update. Let's talk a bit more about it !
Hey, I also reached 10k followers on twitter, that's a nice milestone !
About 0.11 :
The BETA for 0.11 have been released this monday, for all of my 10$ and higher supporters. There was quite a few bugs in it, and there's still suite some things to add, but you can expect the full release two weeks after, as usual, so around January 13. And it'll go public one week after that, so around January 20. Sorry for the delays, but they were for goods reasons ^^' Go read my weekly news if you want to know more about it.
What's in 0.11, then ? I won't go into details, I already did in my various blog posts and weekly news, and you'll get the full changelog when it's released. But for the highlights :
-Two new mechanics, Fast Travel (unlocked after progressing the main quest) and Emissary (a way to control your allegiance by fighting)
-Ursula's New model. You've probably seen it some time ago, but I redesigned her, and this new models now appears after progressing the main quest. It also comes with fully updated talking pics and scenes featuring her.
-The continuation and conclusion of the main quest, around Ursula's Grimoire and Illonia's crest. While it's far from the end of the main story, this conclude the first narrative arc of the story, also omarking an ice transition for what's next to come.
-New sidequests and scenes. Of course, there's a lot of new content to enjoy too !
As I said, I still have some work to do for the full release, but I've already made good progress. I'll see if I have the time to sqeeze a new scene in it too, but no promises ! Also, while it's not exactly related to the update, I'm pleased to announce that, with my right hand man, we wrote a full walkthrough. So for all the people asking for one, you'll finally get it ! It'll come along some saves (a full one and one catching at the start of the new update), and they'll be updated for each new full release, starting with 0.11 !
Ursula : Youger ! Sexier ! Sluttier ?
The plans for 2025 :
Well, first of all, I need to release 0.11, of course. The rest of the month will be focused on catching up with the game scenes from the monthly poll. I've only done one for the moment, and there's three more that are late ^^' So better work on those early. I need to get a better rythm about all that, same for the posts here. The new weekly news is a great addition in my opinion, to share what I've done recently and give you some informations on what I'm working at the moment.
Concerning what everyone is waiting for : the pregnancy content. In my current plans, 0.12 will be fully focused around Illonia's pregnancy, 0.13 will be for all the others characters
and 0.14 will be focused around birth and kids. Of course, it might be bigger than I imagine and might be split in more updates (it'll probably end up like that, you know me). Also, don't worry, even if birth and kids are just for 0.14, it just mean that before those update, you'll be able to give birth, just be without any scenes and kids will magically vanish. But you'll still be able to get the girls pregnant multiple times !
Overall, I'd like to get to a rythm of 4 updates a year, so around one update every three month. That seems a rythm that could work with the way I handle the updates and the content I like to add in those. We'll see how it'll go, of course ! But yeah, I expect to spend the full year working on pregnancy content (and some side scenes here and there, of course). That's gonna be fun !
Of course, a lot of all this will also be done after talking with you and seeing what you think is the best. Should there be multiple pregnancy stages ? Hyperpreg ? Should I give the girls a different outfit during pregnancy ? How do we do with the kids ? Plenty of questions I'll ask though polls, so make sure to keep an eye open for those. I'm also comissionning an artist to draw me some custom impregnation icons, which should be areally nice touch to the game ! Since the pregnancy update is something a lot of people (myself included) have been waiting for a long time, I want to make sure I make it as good as possible !!!
Of course, I'll also take more comissions this year. It's a nice change from the game, and a great income source, so there's no reason to stop, specially seeing how eager some people are waiting for me to open again ! I'll open the next batch once 0.11 is fully released, so get ready for that too ! I need to find a good rythm with those, it's always a bit complex to balance between coms and the game. I guess it'll also greatly depend of how much money I get from here, and how much more I need to live decently. Lately, there's been more people choosing to support me, so thanks a lot for that ! Let's hope it'll continue to grow like that !
Overall, I feel like 2025 wil be a great year for me ! And for the game too !
Future is looking nice !
About myself :
Yes, it's the time where I ramble a bit, but you can't stop me ! :D Overall, I'd say I'm pretty happy with 2024. I've released 2/3 updates, which is less than I would like, but they were pretty chunky, and of really good quality. I've also done quite a lot of commission, that was pretty fun, to get to experiment with things I wouldn't usually do, create new models and try to make them looks close to the original. It's always a pleasure, and also a great boost to my income, which is much needed.
As you probably know, I left my job at the end of 2023, trying to fully live of my art. And this year proved I was able to make it. All thanks to all of you and your support, so thank you so much for that. That's why I'm finalizing the paperwork to declare myself as a fully independant artist, that should start officially next week. Until then, I didn't declare it, which means I payed no taxes and also got some uneployment helps. But it was considered as an illegal activity, and I'd rather pay my taxes to make sure I don't get into trouble. So yeah, that's my official job and career from now on, let's make it go far !
And with 0.11 closing the first narrative arc, that I started five years ago, it really feels like a turning point for me. This game I started for fun, to distract myself during lockdown, it grew up along the way, and now, it's becoming my career and the source of my income. Did I ever imagine myself in that situation ? Well yes, of course ! That was the dream story. Okay, maybe the perfect dream involved me releasing ten times more content and making truly insane amounts of money, but dreams aren't here to be realistic.
But man, to be here, writing all this, it feels good. I've made it. Is it perfect ? Of course not, some things could always be better, but it's so much better than working in fast food as I did before. I absolutly love what I do. And I know I can't take everything I have for granted, and I need to keep on working to progress, and share more content to all of you. But this is alreayd such a privilege to be able to make a living from my art, and to have all of you people enjoying my work and supporting me. There's plenty of things I can progress on, plenty to add add to the game, so much things to do. And I'm really looking forward to all this.
I couldn't finish without a good dose of boobs !
Thank you for this wonderful year. Let's make 2025 even better !
Comments
philip brown
Thank for the update and good luck looking forward for the rest of the update and ideas and keep trying with blender from time to time even if a little bit up will get the hang of it in no time
