Scene 29.

The writing is done. Or almost. There are a couple of paragraphs I want to rework, but essentially, it is done.

I ended up cutting out a lot of content in the third segment. I had planned variations for every girl and almost every path, but I realized that most of these variations didn't make sense. Some of the content was good though, and cutting it out feels pretty bad. It's not entirely lost however as I might reuse that content later in another scene and another context.

I also changed my plans for the fourth and last segment of the scene. I finally chose a completely different direction. I am quite happy with that last-minute change of plans and it serves some of the characters nicely.

Scene 29 is now 9800 words long. This is great because it means "probably less" than 300 renders to pose. I have yet to cut the scene and prepare it for posing but I don't see how I could pass that threshold as the scene is mostly discussion and pretty static.

Steam.

So. The game is now on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2994790/Summer_Scent/

You cannot buy it yet but you can add it to your wishlist. Which is apparently tremendously important for the future of the game. The more wishlists, the better the game will be positioned by the algorithm at release. I've read some scary numbers about this. I naively thought that a few thousand wishlists would be great, but it looks like I'm in the wrong. Apparently, you need at least 25k wishlists to be displayed in a favorable manner. I don't know if it's even possible to reach these highs for Summer Scent as it is a pretty niche game in the AVN landscape. We can only try.

I'm clearly not a professional at marketing, and we could say that I hate that part of the job. But I don't have a choice, I need to do some promotion. The plan was to publish a couple of bonus renders per month, with a reminder to wishlist the game on Steam, but I'm gonna have to crank those numbers up. Starting with next week, I'm going to try to produce one bonus per week and publish it through all the discord servers I have access to, Reddit too perhaps. I'll have to look into curators too. I know someone who can help me with that (looking at you, Stoya). And aside from that... I have no idea. If someone has any advice on that matter, I'll welcome them gladly.

The quick sum up :

• Day 6 Part 5 will contain 2 new scenes: scenes 28 and 29.
• Day 6 Part 5 will contain 1 reworked scene: Day 2, scene 2.
• Day 6 scene 28 has been written, posed, and is mostly rendered.
• Day 6 scene 29 has been written.
• 15273 words of new content so far.
• 177 shots are planned, 177 are posed, and 177 are rendered.
• I'm currently cutting scene 29.

You can follow my progress on this Trello board.

Thank you for your support!

The Naughty Captain