Zoe & Emily progress report

Hello everyone,

I didn't update for a couple of weeks, so I just wanted to share some news.

Steam drama

So Steam is doing some drama it seems, with new rules that forbid NSFW games to add new content on Steam after the first release.

I've written to Steam directly to get more info about the truth of it, for now I'm waiting for their answers.

It has an important impact on the project, both in term of roadmap and financially. I was aiming at an early access on Steam for Emily, but if I can't update the game during early access, what's the point?

But that also means that I have to go through the complete production of Emily without relying on Steam sales at all, which is a large hit.

I'm checking my options, and I'll let you know what Steams answers to me.

Nutaku and GOG may be places that would accept Zoe and Emily, so that's also a possibility.

Emily

Emily is coming to the Flat stage (part 2), in a slightly rushed way. By that, I mean that the corridor part is not actually done, but I want to cover all the technical aspects of the game, and having a playable part 2 is one of them.

There are 3 new events ready (one is narrative for the flat transition), and 4 new events are on the way. The big idea behind that is that I can't really release an empty flat with nothing to do in it, it would be very underwhelming even if the flat itself was quite some work, so I prefer to go for a minimum amount of events to give you an enjoyable experience.

I don't have a release date yet, maybe 2 weeks? 3 weeks top I think.

Zoe

Zoe is in a gray area at the moment, notably because of the Steam drama. I have a new batch of polish/fix tasks that I updated on the Trello.

Animation improvement, dialogue flow, that kind of thing. The idea is really to keep the game high quality from the beginning to the end, and that means improving some parts which are old and a bit low in quality at the moment.

Alongside that, modding should move forward to include new characters, new objects, new cameras, new interactions... Ideally a modder should be able to do about anything.

Mods are going well, especially thanks to hard working Jack, and some mods even have thousands of downloads, so that's a nice achievement :)

https://www.loverslab.com/tags/femdomwifegame

Hopefuly with more tools and with Emily later on allowing for mods too, the modding community will keep picking up and we'll see whole new storylines for Zoe and Emily in addition to my own work.

Here we go for the news! See you soon everyone, I'll keep you updated.

Stay safe,
FWG