After trying to avoid jinxing myself and making things fall through, the development I was most looking forward to of those that I had alluded to last week has fallen through. It's more than a little disappointing, but that's kind of the way life has gone for me recently.
The good news is that v0.7 is coming along. It's been a bit more of a grind than I'd like it to be, but progress itself has been good. The intro is completely done, and the story is somewhere between a third and half done. Of the two bits of optional content for the update, the smaller of the two is complete, and the larger of the two is a little over half done.
Speaking of things I sort of mentioned last week, I want to talk about working on demos for other solo projects. Believe me, I absolutely love what I do, and I very much want to finish Maids & Masters before moving entirely onto a new project; however... It really has become something of a grind recently. It's been nearly a year (...holy shit, it's been nearly a year...) since I started working on Maids & Masters, and have worked on basically nothing but Maids & Masters. I am a part of other teams working on other projects, but my day-to-day work generally goes into MnM.
Yesterday, as I had other plans made for the day and didn't want to get dug into typical work, I decided to start playing around with a demo concept, and I got more lost in working on that than I have working on anything else for months. This demo went from what was a single map and a handful of placeholder assets to nearly three quarters of the way done, which I think reaffirms something I said in an earlier post; I need to take a break from MnM.
This break will come in the form of demos for other ideas I have. These demos will be made available exclusively to my Patrons. Once MnM is done, I'll hold a supporter-only vote to see which of these demos becomes the next project I work on.
But that's for the future. v0.7 is still my next release. I will still do bugfix and post-game releases for v0.7 to complete things like the new side content and the love shack, but expect these releases to come closer to monthly rather than bi-weekly. Once v0.7 is out, the next major update - v0.8 - won't be until the Halloween update in October. After that, the next update will be the second Freeze update - v0.9 - in December. Work on MnM Act 2 will start in 2023, after I've had the chance to make some of these demos and let myself relax some of these creative muscles.
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