Scene 29.

Some good progress this week. Having reached shot #176 we have passed the 55 % threshold and the first segment is behind us. There are about 45 shots left in Segment 2. I should be able to finish it next week. The previews are a bit noisy. I'll have to pump the iterations a bit higher to solve this.

Steam.

Some more curators have been contacted, some more reviews have been written, and it helped. We have reached 2600 wishlists.

I asked some questions and did some research. If I understood correctly, there seem to be three major milestones, in terms of wishlist.

At around 4 000 wishlists, the Steam algorithm should start to randomly display the game in the discovery queues and the "more like this" sections. Apparently, that is the real start of the Steam journey. If we don't reach that level, we are doomed. Reaching it, however, won't be enough to do well.

The "popular upcoming" sections seem to unlock at around 12 000 wishlists and that seems to be what is required for a game to really step out of confidentiality and sell on the platform as the game could then be displayed on the front page of the store (providing that the user has allowed adult game to be displayed, of course).

Consistent and regular presence across the whole store seems to really happen somewhere between 25 000 and 50 000 wishlists.

So... we haven't yet reached the first milestone, and I don't think that Summer Scent can reach the third one. But numbers can improve way faster if we reach the first step, and that 12k wishlist before launch could still be possible. There is still hope.

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 and is currently being posed.
• 16 184 words of new content so far.
• 496 shots are planned, 358 are posed, and 217 are rendered.
• I'm currently posing scene 29.

You can follow my progress on this Trello board.

You can also add the game to your wishlist on Steam !

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

Thank you for your support!

The Naughty Captain