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Gallery Completed

Added 2020-07-28 08:47:19 +0000 UTC

Good news!

The gallery feature has been completed. It pretty much all went according to plan.

It uses the real game as a basis, so you will get the full scene with text exactly the way it was when you played it normally.

The way it is done is pretty much using the rollback system to create a save state, then create a new fresh game state. That new state is then filled with high stats for all girls and full inventory so that quests won't fail on status checks. After that I'm using my existing "jump-to" system to play from that quest.

At the end of the quest the save state is restored and the game continues as if nothing happened.

Rollback will not be possible during a replay, but I don't think it is really necessary in that particular case. It would be possible to add, but it would take a little bit of extra work to isolate it from normal rollback.

I only included non-repeatable scenes in the gallery for now, since all the repeatable scenes are available already, but I might add them in the future, too.

Maintaining this system is pretty much fully automatic. All I have to do to include a scene in the gallery is to drag a picture of the scene into the gallery slot in my custom editor.

Next up will be the system to list all stat changing quests per girl (e.g. "Alice Quest X gives you +5 Exhibitionism with her. It can be done in the kitchen on Tuesdays, Saturdays in the evening... etc)

Since there is a lot of time between play sessions for a lot of people it will become hard to remember which repeatable quest increases which stat.

Release for Friday is still as scheduled so far, unless there is a delay. Compressing/converting the images for different platforms can take multiple hours, which can stack up very quickly, especially on release day. I'll try to pipeline it in a way so it will be done in time, but in case there is something I need to fix urgently, it might delay the release.

Thank you all so much for your support! I hope you will like the new update. Have a fantastic week,

- hachi