Week #3

Hello again, again!

It's the end of the third week. 

I just wanted to say thank you again for all the traffic and saves. The community aspect of this is very encouraging for me. I appreciate the increase in reviews as my goal is visibility.

Growth Metrics:

3,199 downloads of 0.4 over the last week.

We've made it to 29.3k views, 8.7k downloads, and have been saved to 334 collections as of the third week!

(Previously: 
(We've made it to 19.7k views, 5.5k downloads, and have been saved to 249 collections as of the second week!)
(We've made it to 10.5K views, 3K downloads, and have been saved to 145 collections in the first week!)

Problems:

Ichi has an initial file size limit of 1GB. I have unfortunately hit that limit. I had to do some scaling back in order to post the Android verson onto Ichi. I sent in a request for more space but that may stall the next update as I lose motivation on work that I am unsure will be fruitful.

I do have a thought, if I cannot go beyond 1GB or I run into the next size wall and cannot go beyond that. This version will become a "demo," and I will look to link users that enjoy it to other upload locations. Either way there should be a path forward.

The goal is as posted: "An Impressive Vore Community Contribution," and 1GB is not "impressive" enough for me.

Funny joke - had one person follow me and also give me a 1-star review and I looked like that Jackie Chan meme for half a day.

General Project Work (Things I spent time on that do not appear as tangible results):

I spent time building "infrastructure" of my presence outside of the novel. I noticed my 0.2 version was uploaded to several other sites. I found this confusing, but I ultimately do not mind as the project is free. I was very unsure of some of the upload locations and would like to help make this project viewable and help promote known safe locations of acquiring it. I joined F95 to interact on there and put up a posting on Giantess City and I have my original presence on Eka. If you know of anywhere else that would be good, then I would like to post there to help promote the safe methods of acquisition as well as helping to get users/viewers to the most up to date version.

I spent some time reading and going through tutorials for maps creation, screens, time and loops I noticed there was something that could be done with visual studio that I had not been doing. Using multiple files that call to each other. Currently I have been writing the code for this all in order all in a row and using labels are navigation points. It's currently 5000+ lines and is what I meant by the daunting part of the work from last week. A small test showed that I could create a single space for each girl as well as spaces for formatting, maps, etc. I'll be testing this on a single girl for 0.6 but then I will most likely rework the entire under the hood portion of the novel to keep it organized and navigatable. I had a literal facepalm / head to desk moment when I tested it and it worked. That's the beauty of learning something new.

These notes were listed in the "0.5 Work in Progress" if you already read that: 

Learning "time" and loops. This will get tested on a single girl before moving to the larger view if it works out. This is related to "flags," "arrays", "variables," and "conditions." I am not sure this is the right direction for the project, but I need to trial it to be sure. This is incredibly dry reading from a code/formatting perspective.

Learning Map creation. I have two thoughts on direction for this. Emma's space would become an "after death" location which has access to girls in a more of an unlocked gallery fashion - this would require a significant rework of several things; Or, Emma's space is an entirely separate section which would not include girls on the outside of her section. Or who knows, I'm whimsical.

I am opposed to sounds right now as I feel it is jarring and will be very repetitive, and I do not know a proper way to implement at this time. HOWEVER, I can be swayed. Doing testing of additional audio: vore sounds and girl sounds. If I can get it to work and not clash, then I will start adding it. I sourced some sounds to trial out on one of the 0.5 girls. It is not promising as the sound files are worth at least 10 images a piece as is. If space is a limiter this will be cut.

SOUND EFFECTS:

Jeschke - itch.io - Vore Sounds - "Sound Assets by Jeschke"

https://lecheryamoreva.itch.io/ - Sex Sounds - @LecheryAmoreVA on X

Desire to return to previous girls to add onto them or finish routes is clashing with desire to add new girls. I will probably revisit previous girls during 0.6. I will still add anything that is most interesting or fulfilling to me at the current moment. Example, I had picked 3 girls for 0.5 and went and made a completely different one because it was the most interesting to me and made it the easiest to work on.

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I am open to requests and feedback. 

I appreciate any reviews that could be added so I can get found in the ratings section of Ichi.

I hope this project does something for you---just don't tell me about it.

Thanks all,