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Update 0.50 - Shoichi (Doubled portrait fix)

Hey, everyone. Sorry for the delay in posting this,

I know it took me an extra 24 hours beyond what I initially said it would take, but while upgrading the sprites so as to make the randomization of casual outfits possible, I may have accidentally broken the entire game... just a little. It took me a lot of hours to get it fixed, but it's working now. I also, at one point, accide...

Update comes out tomorrow

Hey everyone,

I'm about done with this demo. I'm currently just struggling to finish adding the new outfits to the game. I'm adding a system to randomize what outfit is picked in each day when the characters are wearing their casual clothes, allowing the game to have a little more variation. Right now I'm just trying to square away some of the bugs caused by it.

While it shouldn't t...

Merch Survey

Hey everyone,

For those of you who might remember, TA has recently worked with PawPrint Press to make the Tennis Ace keychains. As we were discussing what we might work on in the future, they were gracious enough to make a survey for us to help decide what to go for.

If you have real interest in buying TA merch, we'd appreciate if you could fill out this form to give us more informa...

Update 0.49 - Jun

It's finally here!

I can't even begin to express just how happy I am to finally have finished this (and to a level I'm satisfied with, even).

I felt like I was getting consumed from the inside. Every time I thought I was making progress, I would hit another scene that I'd rewrite dozens of times just because it wasn't being handled as delicately as I felt it had to be. The end resul...

Update comes out tomorrow

Hey, everyone

First of all, I want to apologize for the long silence. I told myself that I wasn't going to make a post/status update until I had a concrete timeframe to offer. And as I kept struggling more and more with this Jun update, the silence just extended way beyond what it should have. I'll admit that I was so focused on working on the update that I forgot to tell you guys what wa...

Delay Notice

Hello everyone,

To be honest, I was supposed to post this a few days ago, but it totally slipped my mind.

As you guys well know, the last update ended up being 11 days late. While I would love nothing more than be able to post this current update on-schedule, considering that I lost 1/3 of the month due to last month's delays, plus nearing midterms and boggled down with assignments ...

Update 0.48 - Keisuke

Hello, everyone,

I don't think there's much to be said here. I already explained the reason for this crazy delay on my previous post. I finally got it to a point where, while I'm not 100% happy with what I've got (for one, I wish I'd gotten more content done, but I had to scrap my plans when I spent so long rewriting stuff), I'm still not confident that I managed to deal with thi...

Status Update

Hey, everyone,

As you guys noticed, I ended up not posting the update in the deadline I mentioned. I guess part of me thought that if I worked as hard as I could, I would get it done just a few hours after the deadline and ended up postponing posting about it on Patreon until I could. I'll explain what happened exactly that caused it to delay longer than intended:

As those of you ke...

Keychain Release Announcement

Hey there, everyone, 

I hope you guys are all doing well. Today, I am pretty happy to announce something for you guys!  

Remember how a few months ago I'd made a post about something being in the works alongside the Pawprint Press store? Well, they're finally here! We've taken the chibi artwork from the route selection screen and turned them into keychains for all those of...

Delay Notice

Hey, everyone,

I'm sorry for dropping this so close to the deadline. Truth is... I forgot about February being super short. I was going about it as if the month were going to much longer. I'll be delaying the build for 3 or 4 days so I can finish it. 

False virus positives on Windows (explained)

Hey there,

I hope you are all doing well. I'm just dropping this quick thread to let you guys know that I've gotten a few messages over the past few weeks (and thanks to Patreon not sending me an e-mail notification about having received a message in the first place, I only saw the latest one that I got sent today) letting me know that some antivirus software has flagged latest builds as ...

Update 0.47 - Shoichi

Hello, everyone,

I'm a few hours late on this one, but I've just been getting hammered by problems the past few days. My laptop borked itself, just today I have two power failures while working, among other things.

This update is a bit on the shorter side. I did some changes under the hood (including a texting/phone messaging interface programmed by Melo, the programmer for the 2021-02-01 10:50:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 0.46 - Jun

Hello, everyone,

Finally. I was so excited thinking I'd get this update published on the last day of the year, but my family REALLY wanted me to spend time with them over the holidays, so from the 23rd onward I barely had time to use my laptop and work. Hell, they made me cook the Christmas dinner for them the day after I arrived from an 18-hour road trip to visit them in another state. 2021-01-04 05:19:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 0.45 - Keisuke

Hello, everyone,

God, this is finally it. College has been hell and I've pulled more than one all-nighters (it is, in fact, almost 7 AM by the time I'm posting this) but I managed to finish the Keisuke update.

I thank you all again for your overwhelming patience with me these past few months. The upside is that now that my college semester is over, I can start working towards fixing...

Question: What prologue scene do you wish had a CG?

Hey, everyone.

Once again, I'd like to apologize for this delay. I HOPE everyone saw my tweet in the new TA Twitter account about it weeks ago, but I did realize only yesterday that I posted that tweet and forgot to link it here. I'm really sorry about that.

Onto the question, though: With Jun's Day 9 piano concert finally getting an illustration (is in the update I'll release in a ...

Update 0.44 - Shoichi

God, I managed to finish this.

I don't even have much to say. I'm just glad this is done. I will be insurmountably happy when December arrives and college goes on break. Until then, I'll have to keep at this kind of pace.

Here's a list of of what's included in this demo:

• New days added for Shoichi

PC: 2020-11-09 02:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Incomplete release or delay?

Hey, guys.

I just wanted to let you know that, since I'm still working out the logistics of how to split the Shoichi update (as well as last month's delay being a bitch to my schedule in general), I'm only a little over 1/3rd done with the current update. 

However, since the first third of this update is day 30 for Shoichi (on the A-B/Good-Neutral scenario), that entire day 30 ...

I need opinions on Short Story tiers

Hey, everyone!

First of all, I've been pondering for a while now how to better populate the short story tiers. What I initially wanted to make for them felt too big and unmanageable alongside TA, especially now that I have college thrown in the mix. But at the same time, I want to actually be able to offer that content.

I made here a pretty bite-sized short story, just a couple page...

Shoichi Route Split

So, as those of you who are up to date are aware, there's being more and more of a split going on between the Good/Neutral and the Bad path currently. I'm not saying that they will not merge eventually, but I also won't say how long they'll be split either (might be an update. Might be a few updates. Point is, I won't say what the plan is so you guys will be kept guessing).

Either way, t...

Update 0.43 - Jun

It's heeeeeeeeeeere,

Everyone, thank you so much for your patience. I'm finally done with writing and programming this update. It makes me so happy to get it out again ;-;

I hope you guys enjoy it. I'm about ready to crash right now.

Here's the list of changes:

• Day 28 added for Jun
• New expressions added for Haruki
• New CG art

PC: 2020-10-11 02:27:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Delay Notice (Yes... again)

Honestly, at this point I barely have words. Spent the entire month trying to catch up with a mountain of college work, as well as the commissions I took almost two months ago when I was behind on my bills. 

While I'm managing to catch up with them (only two college papers left that are urgent, though I haven't even started on the first one and it's due tomorrow), I barely managed to...

Update 0.42 - Keisuke

Hey everyone, how are you guys doing?

I can't tell you guys how relieved I am to finally put this one out there. Of course, there's no way I'd ever blame Nyaruh for the delay. Her computer was borked and in the repair shop for over two weeks, which is something really out of her control. She continued working through that time on her laptop, but it's such an old machine that... well, sayi...

Art Delay Notice

For fuck's sake, I was supposed to post this 4 days ago and I keep forgetting!

Nyaruh asked for an extension since there is a pretty big scene coming in this Keisuke update that I CANNOT release without the art... and it has two different CGs with multiple minor expression variations in it. It's a lot of work and, due to her having an issue with her drawing tablet (as in, her computer sto...

Update 0.41 - Shoichi

Hey everyone, how are you guys doing?

This one was pretty hard to get finished. I got super delayed due to the end of my college semester, plus, the amount of content I planned for this update was straight-up unfeasible for a single update. I'm not used to planning content for the route with the split in paths that happened recently, and end up coming up with an amount of content that I j...

Short Delay

Hey there, guys.

In what should be a surprise to no one, not only has that 8 day delay for last month's update hurt a lot, but this Shoichi update is going to be bigger than a normal update + me wanting to take at least the day of my birthday itself off (the 28th) + the fact that I had to focus on college work for the 10 days after posting the last delay... I'm behind schedule.

I'll...

Update 0.40 - Jun

Hey there!

I finally finished it! It took me so long. This update was so hard to write properly, but I think I got something good here. I won't ramble on and on too much in here, just... play it, and hopefully you guys like it.

Once again, thank you for your patience with the delay. Hopefully this will be worth it!

• Day 27 added for Jun
• New art added

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(Unfortunately) Delay Notice

Hey guys. Hope you've all been well.

I'm really, really sorry for this. This time it's 100% on me. Between struggling with some of the changes that happen in this update and with the end of semester at my college, I just wasn't able to get work finished for this in time. I've thought of trying to pull all-nighters to get it done in time, but I realized even then I wouldn't make i...

Shoichi Daki Status Update

Hey there, everyone. Hope you guys have been doing well!

I just wanted to let you all know that I got an update from the InkedFur store today. As I mentioned back on February, the store had really suffered because the factory that made their dakis was closed right at the start of the pandemic and didn't reopen for a good while. And then, when it finally did, the backlog was so huge that t...

SFW Short Story - Ties that Bind Us

 Hey there, everyone.

I'm gonna start bringing you guys a few short stories I have written and saved in my computer but haven't published yet. These were written as commissions for a good friend who was graciously given me permission to post them here. This friend really likes Shoichi, so here we have a few short stories of an Alternate Universe of him and Shoichi x3

NSFW Short Story - Work Assignments

Hey there, everyone.

I'm gonna start bringing you guys a few short stories I have written and saved in my computer but haven't published yet. These were written as commissions for a good friend who was graciously given me permission to post them here. This friend really likes Shoichi, so here we have a few short stories of an Alternate Universe of him and Shoichi x3