Happy December Everyone! Apologies for the later than usual monthly post on Steam. In all honesty, I completely lost track of the days/months! It seems crazy how quickly this year has gone! I've also been pretty focused recently on a holiday surprise for you all (read below). It’s been a pretty good month. I’ve got a ton of new renders/animations etc done. [b]Chapter 3 Progress:[/b] - Now up to 4573 (another 1097 images this month) - Now up to 202 animations (another 48 this month) - Written/Transcribed another 8 Scenes - New freeroam posed. [b]New Free Roam:[/b] Toward the end of November, I managed to finally get another free roam posed. It’s quite a fun one this, a Cocktail party in the bar arranged by Willow. For this one I had help from fans to pick out outfits for the girls and it worked out really nicely. I was pleasantly surprised with the number of outfits that were picked out that really suited the specific girls personality! Have a look here at some previews of that scene and the outfits picked out by the players! [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43540775/57a0df75a621941759b2384d1c21757bc02de929.png[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43540775/a72c8bd5ea2acaf4218dd303810f52cc4d25bda3.png[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43540775/3d5f9b4a0e34fe5db1b3eb473bf5bd759487997e.png[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43540775/2920efa6fb45641dbea65fc75c29a0a0caf51e25.png[/img] I’m currently writing the scenes for this. There’s a couple of girls who could use an extra lewd scene, so I feel a cocktail party could be the perfect opportunity for that! [b]Wen Release?[/b] I can see there is chatter asking about when Episode 3 is going to be released. The answer right now is 'I don't know...'. My ambition is always to try and get an episode out within 12 months of the previous (making that early April 2025). However, the Episodes are getting much bigger. As an example, what I've created for Episode 3 is almost already bigger than the whole of Episode 1 was and there's still a lot to do! Episode 1 has 4958 images and 81 animations, and Episode 3 already has 4573 images and 202 animations. I would anticipate by the end of Episode 3, it will be closer to 9000 images (give or take) and perhaps 350 animations. It's going to be a big update and from my perspective, the quality has also increased quite significantly. I'm doing the very best I can, I've managed to get someone to help me with writing (all supervised and blocked out by me), and I'm literally working on Jury every spare hour I get. As soon as I get to a point where I can be confident that I know which month it will be ready, I'll be sure to shout it from the rooftops. I know it's frustrating waiting for new content, I've also been on the other side of waiting for many updates, but it's just how it is. [b]Xmas Special:[/b] I’m trying to give you guys/girls a little something extra this Christmas other than some generic Holiday wallpapers. My attempt here is to create a free special ‘mini episode’. The idea is to show a little prequal of one of the members of the Jury. It’s to get an insight into her life before she was called up to Jury duty. A long-standing member of the community (literally since day 1) has been working really hard planning it, and together we’re developing it with the hopes that I can get it rendered/released in time for Christmas. I've been working on it this week and managed to crack out over 400 renders towards it so far (not included in the stats above). Fair warning, it's not a mindless f**kfest. It's a little deeper than that. Having said that, there ARE going to be lewd scenes and it's shaping up really nicely. I'd share some images, but I'd prefer it to be a Christmas surprise! I'm going to crack on with the Xmas special content, and hopefully I'll be able to give you a nice little mini episode to play through on Christmas day! Talk soon and enjoy the start of the Holiday season! Nickle3DArt