[Progress Dump] July!

Last month Chapter 2 went through some very big changes, stepping us in the direction of turning Paizuri University into something much bigger.

The downside to this is that we haven't been able to get as many releases out this month, because of all the new feature developments going into Chapter 2. 

So to make sure we didn't get stuck on too many ambitious things, we split Chapter 2 in half to help us focus on what we have and what is needed to complete it.

Chapter 2 is now the same length as Chapter 1, which we are finding to be a nice size to work with. And despite the issues we encountered with our ambitions, a whole heap of stuff still got done.

So what did we get up to in July?

• Concept Art - Leena's Booty Sketches (Post)
• Concept Art - Diana Paizuri (Post)
• Concept Art - Double Paizuri (Post)
• Concept Art - White Sugar & Hot Coffee (Post)
• Concept Art - Kareen Cowgirl (Post)
• Concept Art - NPC Designs (Post)
• Concept Art - Finger Frames (Post)
• New H-Scene - Kareen Ghud Morning (WIP) 
• New H-Scene - Diana Solo Paizuri (WIP)
• New H-Scene - Diana & Kareen Double Paizuri (WIP)
• New H-Scene - Overstimulated Diana (WIP)
• New H-Scene - Kareen ******** Seduction (WIP)
• New H-Scene - Kareen Handy (WIP)
• New H-Scene - Kareen Cowgirl (WIP)
• All H-Scenes are now in 720p
• New Diana Avatars (x4)
• New Kareen Nude Avatar 
• New UI Development - The super sexy brand new UI was added to Paizuri University with new Main Menu, Options, Gallery, Save & Load, and Credits UIs! (Mock Up, Menu, In-Game) 
• You can now Save & Load your progress in the new UI! 
• A "ZURIPAI GAMES" Logo! (Post)
• The main story for Chapter 2 is complete!
• First Person Areas!!! (Post)
• New World - Photography Building (WIP)
• First Person Area random dialogue!
• Updated Dialogue handling with "Auto Play", "Skip", "Quick Save" and "Quick Load"
• Gallery Image unlock notifications.
• An Emergency Quit! That closes and quick saves your progress.
• Paizuri University Chapter 2 Releases (0.0.4, 0.1.0)

The Zurizuri Engine also received some major upgrades to make the above possible!

• Integration of the new First Person systems.
• Added World Editor for simpler First Person Area creation. (Post)
• Animate-able Feature frames (Post)
• A total UI overhaul. Looks the same, works completely differently.
• Re-written Save / Load, Credits and Gallery Systems.
• Support for higher resolution displays.
• Notification Popup support.
• Message Window support (for error handling)
• Added Quick Save & Load support
• Added Game and Scene state handling - for better control over different areas and types of gameplay.
• General Resource and Build Management improvements.
• Ground work for Map & Overworld support.
• Ground work for NPC and an NPC Creator.
• Ground work for Quests (Post)
• Lots of bug fixes and general optimizations.

Plans for August

This month Zuri Sama will be working on NPCs and Quests! A fairly tall order, but one that will start really showing what we're trying to do with Paizuri University.

Buka chan will also begin the process of adding Feature Frames for key story scenes, line and color passes on some of the concept art in-game, and adding new character emotion avatars for the story dialogue.

Last month we also missed releasing a public release. Which is something we can't afford to miss. (No public release = No potential growth).

Because of the large amount of new features we've been adding we haven't been able to create a viable public release candidate, at least not without some very heavy handed hacking which can only lead to bad things.

This has also meant our Teaspoon patrons have missed out on a release, which is not acceptable!

So this month we'll be prioritising development around getting the first public release of Chapter 2 to help get that ball rolling. 

We'll also be making some adjustments to the Teaspoon reward to make it fair and make sure they don't miss out on a build ever again! We'll be updating everyone on changes for Teaspoon in a follow up post.

With each new chapter we've been experiencing some growing pains, which we are slowly getting used to. But our hopes are that once these new growth spurts in features become "fixed" in nature, we can focus more on just adding more story, art and game-y play using everything we've developed to make Paizuri University what we envision it to be. 

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And that has been July!!!

We'd like to apologise to our Teaspoon's not receiving a public build like we had hoped (we're fixing that).

And thank you to everyone who has supported us. Your support helped give us extra time last month to put into Chapter 2 of Paizuri University while it was heavily in development, so thank you!!!

We hope y'all looking forward to everything coming this month!

~ Zuri Sama & Buka Chan ~