Whew, so the itch upload has been a little late... Apologies I've had Covid. In completely unrelated news I've been taking this week off!

Oh version 15... Really it tightened up a bunch of Alex stuff and Sami stuff. It's always nice to be able to get a quality heart to heart with Sami. She comes off as aggressive but once you poke a hole in that she's such a dork. Also the long awaited reintroduction of the end of run bio section! It's just what that one guy asked for this one time like 3 months ago!

Anyway now it's story time!

So... I dunno if I've talked about this before, that's not my job to keep track of, I consider that your job to keep track of. Anyway... You might have noticed that I don't take a lot of holidays. In fact, I basically don't take ANY holidays. Sometimes I get sick, that's like a holdiay? Sometimes life intrudes and I get mandatory time away from work... But really in those times I would rather be at work.

So Nunu, how do you handle the mental strain of constant development with (generally) one day off a week and almost no work life separation? First of all we've been over that I love writing all this, that certainly helps. But really? What am I even going to do with time off? Travel? I've been around the world once or twice... It's fine... Doesn't really do much for me. Hang out with friends? It's not as though I don't do that anyway.

No, my entire life, when I get time off I've basically just spent it playing video games, or making little side projects. It will get right into that stuff and it will consume me and then when I'm done I put it down and don't touch it again for a few months if at all. Really though, when I'm done, what am I left with? I don't consider having fun a waste of time, after all I am a hedonist, fun is the point of life. But so often I put a game down and am just feeling unsatisfied. That may be more a comment on my taste in games but lets just ignore that for now.

No, what I find the most fulfilling is to have a really good changelog. Sitting down and going, damn, I was productive this week... it's almost euphoric. That's one of the reasons why my logs tend to have a negative opinion of myself, seeking to have that better changelog (Although I know I have talked about that before). Taking time away from all that, yeah I'll have fun but it's not fulfilling. Also I start to forget things if I'm not thinking about them.

I am a momentum based developer, the better last week was the harder I work the next week. The worse last week was? Let's just say that's why I call every week a clean slate.

That being said, every year around Christmas I do tend to take one week off to sort out various things... although it's not as though I don't also produce things during this "Week off". Last year I did an experiment about the very nature of the game and banged out a version that did not have the time loop and was instead a lot more sandboxy. Quite a few people liked it, but most preferred the existing direction of the game so that's how history played out. I'm doing something this week but should probably get around to actually Christmas shopping...

Alright catch you fine folk later

- Love Nunu

Changelog for version 0.15d History:

New: 
- Finished the reconstruction of C4 Alex Forest fun
- New option when Lin takes you into your room for a good time
- You can get a mail from Lin with enough mood
- If Haily is around, Alex can invite the two of you to the hot tub on Saturday afternoon
- Sami can now be interacted with during Sunday Dinner if you had a bit of a heart to heart in the shower
- Her progression event is in this scene
- You can get a mail in this scene
- Some new dialogue when talking to Alex in the forest in C4
- Alex will say good bye in a more appropriate way for C4
- Sleeping with Alex will progress her to C5
- New interactions with Carla during Saturday dinner (Corruption 1)
- New interactions with Lin during Saturday dinner (Mood 4)
- Haily's Bio can be accessed
- Alex's Bio can be accessed
- Added the extras menu in the main menu (No new content but it has the anniversary special in it)

Changes:
- Massive update to Alex's sprite use for a lot of early and common scenes
- New Render for touching alex in the first loop
- Rewrote the management of Alex's BE so it can support arbitrary sizes (No new content)
- Under construction screens for the secret hidden bios
- Changed requirements for Sami's 4th Mail
- Clarified which option in Lina peeks on Sami is prompted by Carla's Advice
- Improved responsiveness to do with the new scenes
- Complete redo of Alex's sprites
- Minor update to Alex's Friday dinner content
- Minor update to Saturday dinner content
- Redesigned the system for Saturday dinner so that it can handle events
- Alex Forest scene non sex scenes rebuilt

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug with Alex's goodbye missing a variable
- Removed the blocker from development so you can actually help Lin braid hair
- Fixed a bug that would write a call to the wrong image into the progress log
- Lots of minor Guide fixes
- Listening device option in Sami touching herself now doesn't falsely trigger
- Alex's C5 now unlocks properly
- Several sprite fixes to Sami's Dinner Lake scene
- Alex's goodbye no longer overrides the normal run end scene
- Fixed a crash issue with viewing the about page
- Mail Icon no longer clips into the title when it has a two line name