Progress update (20/07/2024): The beginning of the month was hard for both of us...

This is a long progress report because shit has happen these days... it has been a very rough, I'm tired (Jac Rios), so is Sack, both of us were hit with our own issues, we are worried and nervous about the release, but we have clear what we must do before that day... But first, let us talk about what is going on in our life and why has been so hard.

For Jac Rios...

At the beginning of the month I had to take care of my dad, he is diabetic and had another amputation, this time he got very delicate, now is using a wheelchair (Which I had pay half of it) and I had to cook for him and in general take care of him, he hasn't improve, is actually about to get another amputation but due to personal reasons I'm no longer taking care of him.

That being said, this was the main reason why I didn't work fully on the game during the first half of this month, I has to put time, effort and money on my family, but now I at least have time to work fully in the game.

For Drawing Sack...

On her part, Sack's region was hit by the hurricane Beryl, this was one hit really hard part of Mexico, some rain and storms from this hurricane even hit the zone where I live, however, for Sack was a call to emergency, fortunately nothing severe happened beside power shutdowns and few days without communication which people on the region took in account, gathering provisions before the hurricane hit the zone.

After the hurricane dissipated, she took some time to take care of some matters about her university, until recently she return to work fully on the game.

Steam approved us as an indie developers

After paying the admission fee, going back and forward with e-mails, contacting the IRS and appealing to their demanding requests, we finally got an SteamWorks account up, this is the first step tho. We fill the form dedicated to adult games and everything checks out for Steam base on our description, but they are going to evaluate it again after we publish captures of the game, but if they feel the game violates their rules, they are going to ban the game.

Now, keep in mind, by the rules Broken & Loved don't violate any rule from Steam but they have been very inconsistent with it, there are games that straight up have "cute and funny" (If you know what I mean) content and they have those games on sale, there are also games that aren't even for adults only and get ban, specially with anime style. I'm not here to take a high morale ground or anything, people do what hey do or whatever, is more about how Steam is very inconsistent with their approvals.

Lets see what happen, I'm scared because my situation is going downhill and I hope at least have something good happen to me for a change, on top of that I don't think I will be able to work full time making games if this doesn't go through... also, Sack deserves a compensation for her work as well, it has been four years since we started, we hope at least get something solid.

Next update: Slice of Life - Part 3

Characters re-design is almost done, Rei in their three iterations (Female, Male and Inter) is now more hot with some muscles, Evangeline is now more cute and expressive, I don't want to spoil much about these redesigns, are almost done and will arrive with the next update.

Also, just like we did with the new interactions, players will be able to change between the old and new sprites on the configuration menu.

About the content of the next update, it will be mostly about Evangeline being more proactive, now she will be able to initiate sex scenes, suggesting having sex if the player haven't done it with her yet and initiating dates if the player expends a week without taking her out.

Also this will include the event were both of them go to Rei's apartment to watch movies and expend the night together, sleeping in the same bed, this also will lead to sex or not, is on the player, however for those who are having a sexless run, Evangeline is going to provoke Rei into having foreplay, mostly softcore content such as kissing and touching, this will be also available for players who have sex with her but the reason behind having foreplay will be different.

That is all for now... this has been a fucking rough month, not gonna lie, but at least we got the IRS accepting my information and registration as well as keep going with the update in an acceptable pace, good enough to deliver something before the end of Jun or the beginning of August~

The update after this one will be available only on Itch.io, it will be called The Last Beta and it will include all the content available for the retail version but with some rough edges.