Flirt & Prince’s routes are now completely finished! Props to Wes & Ren for tackling them. Bad Boy & Base BF’s routes are still being worked on, but you can always check out their progress on the tracker.
Speaking of which–we’re basically now at the 200,000 word mark for the game’s script. So, if you’ve been wondering why it’s taking so long… it’s just incredibly long and detailed. The final count, including the expansion routes, will probably be between 280,000 and 350,000 words, which amounts to 20-35 hours of reading depending on your own speed. This doesn’t even take into account the gameplay sections of SSWK, by the way.
As for CGs: we’re presently trucking along through the sexy/R17 ones. Each has a number of variations, so they take a bit longer to finish than the regular CGs.
On that note, the majority of you told us you’d rather wait to have the regular CG artist draw for Base BF’s route. So, we’ll be holding off on the game’s release until those are done. Once there are 2 CGs left, we’ll come back with a proper release date. For now, we’ll just say the game will come out sometime in Q1 2019.
I believe that covers just about everything, so I hope you all have a great week! Until next time.
We’ve set a deadline for all of the game’s script to be finished by the end of August, and we hope to have the game ready for testing before the start of the holiday season. With that in mind, we’ll be aiming for a November-December release date.
In other news, we’ll be working on a second sprite set that matches the game’s CG style. Players who prefer the original set will still be able to use it, however. We’ve also finished the track list for the game’s OST and will be sending it to a composer soon. When the updated demo is released, it will feature both of these updates.
On our Patreon, we’ll be posting uncut art work for SSWK over the next few weeks. If you’re interested in seeing some of the full, finished CGs before the game releases, please consider supporting us there. Below is an example of some of the artwork previews you can expect to see on our Patreon.
Also, we have opened up some new rewards on the itch.io page. More details on this can be found here
We promised we would get back to you about when the next update will be and we can confirm it will be next month.
However, as we said we would, we now have a live tracker for SSWK. One is a General Tracker and the other is a Writing Tracker. Feel free to check those out whenever you want to see how things are going.
Again, we would like to thank you all for your patience and immense amounts of co-operation with all these changes going on. Reine Works will be dedicated to making sure it is all worth your while in the long-run.
We will post a quick update to inform you when to expect the next Tumblr update however we do post updates on the Indiegogo every month.
Also, if there’s anything from #SSWKTAKEOVER that you would like to see more of in the updates let us know.
We get this question quite a bit so we’re going to clear this up. The expansion pack contains two extra BF personalities, Thrillseeker [left] & Fashionista [right].The expansion pack is $8. On Itch, we don’t have a way to upgrade your purchase from the base game to the expansion pack but we are looking into ways of getting around this.
But just look at them! Why wouldn’t you want these two as well!
This development note comes from Aly, our chibbi creator.
“Oh actually, I realized about halfway through some of the sketches that the way I was drawing the chibis had changed quiet a bit since I drew the Jobs CG a while ago. It was kinda funny, I had to go back and make some tweaks to keep the style a little more consistent LOL But it still looks kinda different now” Aly ♥
Flirt seems like a good person to talk about one of our favourite parts of SSWK. Usually, otomes focus on getting into a relationship but SSWK is very much about building a good relationship with BF or, you know, not doing that because we’ve all played the sims and being an evil god can be fun too.
However, you want to play. No judgment here.
We have some really cute icon designs (if we do say so ourselves). The original Beta Boyfriend logo (seen right) was designed by our chibbi artist @aly-san. Then that was taken by the GUI artist and made into these fab seals(centre). The final form is by the lovely Maddykinz who drew some very cute chibbis featuring the logo just behind(left).
Probably one of our most popular Beta Boyfriend personalities who is only seconded by Base. We hope that we can show the thrills and dangers of falling for this common type but that all depends on the choices you make.
Development Tidbit – It’s been a long time since we looked at BF’s sketches and it’s super cool to see how our humble mood board was transformed into the Badboy you know today. If you look front and centre you’ll notice the king of pop himself. Can you guess why he’s there? As for the tattoos we went with a floral sleeve to show that he isn’t all hard edges. This Badboy (as much as he protests not to) he does have a gentler side beneath all that leather and metal.
So, to kick off our Signed and Sealed with a Kiss #SSWKTAKEOVER week. Here is a VERY brief description of one of Prince’s exclusive scenes.
These are the BARE BONES of the scene. We haven’t even begun to explain all the things that could go wrong with breakfast in bed.
But, so many things can go right too.
A tidbit about development is that when writing up concepts Ashe gave each scene a title. These titles are usually terrible puns or just point blank terrible titles. Some of their favourites are, “I ain’t no holler back Jack” “Old Flames, New Ashes” and “I’ve Maddy’d up my Mind.” Yeah, we rolled our eyes at that last one too.
Thankfully they won’t be in the actual game because we are seriously trying to not encourage this bad habit of theirs.
We have moved full production of SSWK to Reine Works so we decided to post an early update just to get people more acquainted with the new (not so new) surroundings. While on the surface this might seem like a big change the team hasn’t changed at all. The writer is the same, the artist is the same, the project lead, the programmer, the chibi artist, and the annoying dumb-dumb that writes these updates are all the same. As you will see in the coming weeks, the changes will ultimately be for the better and we have some really exciting plans ahead of us.
To get everyone comfortable with this change, we will be running a week long set of exclusive sneak peeks and reveals called #SSWKTAKEOVER. This is also to thank you all for your amazing amounts of patience and reward all the good faith you’ve put in us.
For a full explanation of these changes, check out the update HERE.
Back to the actual update…
We have some really nice things to show you this time around (just as we promised). First, some epilogue CGs [as seen above] that we are just totally wild about. One of them has a special variation that you can’t see, but it’s worth the wait~
It’s kind of boring to just tell you that we are writing this or that part, so we’ve decided to include a quick sneak peek at one of the scenes. Sure, we still have [A LOT] of editing to do, but we’re pretty sure this bit will stay!
We will be including script sneak peeks in every one of our updates from now on. The writing is a BIG part of a VN, so you should get a taste of what you’re in for, right?
On another note, a few people were asking if there would be *cough* certain kind of scenes in this VN, and well… let’s just say biting isn’t the only thing MC will be doing to BF. wink wonk
Again, if there is anything specific you want to know, tell us! Also, if you have any burning questions that just can’t wait, be sure to message us on here we will happily answer them!
Happy New Year, which seems weird to say considering it’s February but this is our first SSWK update of the new year so it only seemed fitting to start off this way.
Before the new year, we got our new updated demo out ahead of time and are really excited to tell you that this year has been very productive so far.
We haven’t got much exciting news to tell you more than things are getting done. Art is being drawn. The script is being written. Chibis are being chibbified. We wish we had something more exciting to write about and if you have any suggestions for what you want to know about the progress then let us know.
For this reason, monthly updates aren’t really that useful. So, expect the next update April 10th and hopefully, by then we might have something more interesting to tell you besides the normal “stuff is getting done” updates.
Mégane à trois 