MY TIME WITH YOU [BOOK 2 CH.25] [EOLOSTUDIOS]

Book 2 Chapter 25 v0.25

• Two hour-long update
• Offscreen chapters integrated
• Added a small scene in Chapter 21, that was initially planned; it’s part of the FMC-MC-Takato plotline.
• Skip Button at the upper right-hand side of the screen to the unskippable scene near the end of the chapter
• New look for the choices UI
• Gallery for Offscreen and Chapter 25
• Fixed gallery for chapter 24(I broke it accidentally)
• Better Englando, SFX, and music altogether
• Edited the end version and close screens (We had to)

Offscreen Chapters

Hikari, Yukine, Kanehana, Akemi, and Iroha’s Offchapters

Public only post, no news here for paying supporters. It came to me that “OVA” stands for Original Video Animation, we do have video animations, but we really can’t classify the offchapters as such. I guess our brain defined the bonus/extra chapters as OVAs since that’s what they are usually called. So now I will call this “Offchapters” since it’s away from the by-chapter storytelling, or “Offscreen” since it’s events that happen… you know, off-screen.

Technical Update

432 renders, 34 animations – Yeah it’s a rather small update although I have stated that this is more like the extra content which we can’t accommodate in the main chapters for it breaks pacing and cohesion. This offchapter is currently separate and/or a stand-alone release, and you can see it by the file size. It will be integrated into the public version of Chapter 25 upon release. It feels so good to work with a smaller file size in the meantime. The main menu music may not match the main menu wallpaper due to the reasons above, I just wanted to let you guys hear the music for Book 4’s Main Menu, I had it since more than a year ago.

Chapter Update

It’s a little short, around 20-30 minutes for all of them. Apologies to FMC, PinkYumi, and Chitose fans, they will not have an Offchapter in Book 2. It’s too soon for them. These offchapters don’t have by-chapter locks on them and we assume that you have played the latest update since to implement those, you will be forced to replay the chapters they are connected with, so we took a pass on that. You may play the offchapters in any order, but here’s a suggested play order, it’s chronological: 1. Iroha 2. Hikari 3. Yukine 4. Kanehana 5. Akemi Choices don’t matter much, or at least it only influences the offchapter, it’s more on communicating with the cast. Your Italian might be tested a little.

Dev Comment/Rant/Plans

This below needs to be taken as if it’s still Dec. 12

I have fully left my job, got my holiday bonus, and then packed it. I moved back to my old room for now to lessen expenses and will be looking for options at least, but I don’t expect to have anything til at least March. I’ve already set up a roadmap for the first half of Book 3, so fingers crossed. Now it’s up to me to make Chapter 25 in record time(spoiler it is record time), without devaluating anything due to haste, of course. I’ve written most of it already, Chapter 25 is a culmination of the recent chapters, after all so I’ll be able to start with renders in less than a week. I think I have said all that I needed to, thank you! Happy Holidays!

Book 2: Chapter 24

Technical Update
-1055 Renders, 15 animations
-Removed the input name at the start of Book 2 to lessen the immersion break since I’m sure the “None None” name error won’t appear anymore, and if it does, we have the name changer feature.
-New choices and exit screen UI; still WIP.

Chapter Update
I have deeply mixed feelings about this chapter. On the one hand, I like it, on the other, I dread the time when the monkeys are all together in one scene. Still, the group scene in this chapter isn’t the most difficult to pull off.

This is probably the most I’ve worked on a chapter script-wise. I kept reading it over and over, but only now, as I woke up and started posting this, did I realize there is one small scene to be added; it’s really small and will only add a little, so this chapter is still good to go. Edit: I have added it now, as mentioned above.

There are a few choices to make in this chapter that will affect future scenes. The walkthrough is attached below.

Dev comments

Where do I begin? Excited to proceed forward, I have everything ready after all.

I have completed the story to tell, the only question that I keep asking is: how do I tell it?

Then I tell myself, it’s an ongoing story, I’ll figure it out. As long as I follow my continuity rule, that nothing published/released storywise will ever be revised, I hate when that crap gets pulled; from anyone. It shows the lack of integrity and dedication in the writing, IMO. Making up as I go along is not my style, that’s why even at multiple requests from various people I have not entertained the idea of supporters having any hold on the reins to the plot at all, except for the minor details with little-to-no plot relevance. So please stop asking and wait for Book 4, I’ll be happy to collaborate with people and take suggestions then.

Anyway, Chapter 25 will be a breeze, aside from a scene or two that will be quite difficult to pull off.

Book 2: Chapter 23
Technical update
-1,400+ renders, 11 animations
-New textbox for the choice, still a WIP
-Fixed the broken saves issue; more details in Discord.

Chapter update
The last chapter was tedious, due to it having mostly scenes with 3 or more cast members, this one is difficult because aside from it having almost the same thing, they have to be more active. I tailored this chapter to showcase more of the cast’s dynamic with each other, so we took a break from the last 2 chapter’s more serious themes and made this one whimsical.
Originally, that wasn’t the plan; as you may have heard/read somewhere, book 2 ends on the 25th chapter and I mentioned Rion playing a bigger part in this chapter. So here’s how it was done: The approach to the last 3 remaining chapters of book 2 is crafting it as a whole, Like with what I did with chapters 10 and 11 of book 1 yet finishing each chapter strongly and with more than enough progression in each, which contributed to this chapter taking longer once again. So what I did is I swapped out events from each chapter to produce a more cohesive flow on the storytelling. As always, I like this chapter more than the previous but of course, I’d love to hear what you think.

With that in mind, I swear the next two chapters will be way faster than the last few updates. Sorry ’bout that!

Dev comments
I had a lot of fun with the scenes in this chapter, but it was difficult; the entirety of the pool scene and sequencing alone took two days to write and four days to render, mostly because it was meant to be in disarray. Oh, and please save on the “Chapter – END” not on Miho presenting our pages on the screen.

Book 2: Chapter 22

A few changes between this and the previous version:
-Added gallery.
-Added a screen at the end with Miho to redirect users to our pages.
-Added Manic_umbra to the wall of fame. Thank you.
-A few edits here and there on the dialogue
That’s about it, there’s not much to address in this post towards the exclusive supporters since I just did that a couple of days ago.

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About this chapter: I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: I hate working with skirts. The rest of the summary of what is in the chapter can be viewed below in the Chapter Update Section.

Technical Updates
-Added a rename feature on the settings menu, this is mostly added for users whose in-game name in MTWY gets turned into none.
-Removed the Franklin Gothic Font from the fonts used in MTWY and added the Din Font.
-Added a new Akemi main menu slide as per poll suggestion.

Chapter Update
Around 1560 Renders and 31 animations
5k+ lines of cod

Chapter 21 – The One Who Loves You The Most
New render count – 1360ish
New animation count – 5

Let’s start off by saying I absolutely tried to finish within the weekend and/or
the designated date, but it was actually impossible, doy~ That was me pouring every hour I could into the development. For Friday and Saturday, I went from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. on MTWY. I have the raws from rendering to prove that, since they have timestamps on when they were created, so if you want to see them. *Wink*

Let me say first that, this chapter is not done; everything is in there, yes, nothing is lacking, but it needs some cleaning up and other sound effects that EO and I weren’t able to agree on. I do believe this is more than enough for the first version of this chapter. We will follow up with the more polished version along with the Android build in a day or two, it’s around 6 a.m. here, so EO is already dead, and he handles that.

If you’re leaning toward the fanservice in our game, sadly, there’s none in this chapter, a little heads up to those peeps now. It’s too story-driven, not many choices in it either, but more of a culmination of the choices that were made during the previous chapters; so no walkthrough is required, but I will still update that as soon as I can. Also, there are parts that I believe have questionable transitions or are at least somewhat unnecessary because this chapter needs you to have a decent memory of the game’s events. Considering you are all paying supporters, I assume you know the game to at least a good extent. But I want to hear your feedback on those parts, don’t worry, you’ll notice them. Feel free to chat with me on Discord. And that’s the part that most needs cleaning up.

Also, a little question, the progress report from April 19 has 513 views, and I have 70–80 patrons; any idea how that works, or do I have to believe each of you viewed it 7-8 times?

Well, that’s it for now, you may find a huge edit at the bottom later on. Off to the download links and goodnight. The update should’ve been up a few hours earlier, but the game’s engine decided to wait for the sunrise and screw with me, so good morning instead.

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EDIT: A more polished/clean-up version of chapter 21 is now up, along with its Android port and everything else you’ve been waiting for. A few words, I forgot to say that this chapter was writing itself since MTWY started and that was extremely tricky to write around on but nonetheless fun. While this chapter was still only in my head I was thinking how awesome it would be once I finally turn it into an actual chapter and it’s extremely A-W-E-S-O-M-E.

Wrote my heart out on this one but I still think I could make it better, a few edits here in there at some point. Anyway, please excuse the delay between the PC/MAC and Android ports, it’s a bit hard juggling time between MTWY and other responsibilities, especially when the chapter is nearly done I tend to lean towards spending all of my time on this. So while I was devoting my time to the chapter’s development, work was piling up on the side and I had to catch up post-release. Anyways, enjoy and hopefully you’re excited as I am about the future of this game. We’ll be handling promotion after the rerendered release of Book 1.

Book 1 – Rerendered
– 95% of book 1 was re-rendered, new visuals, with only Chapter 11 halfway touched (removed clippings, horrible shadings, unbalanced textures).
– Changed the transition effects, the fade and dissolve transition effects between renders were extremely inconsistent.
– Rewrote Miho’s intro a little, since Post-Ch9 fans won’t get the first few lines.
– Rewrote dialogues; no changes to the story; but I did close a plothole. It’s *not* even slightly important to the essence of the story, but it’s annoying once you notice it.
– Adjusted UIs
– Adjusted the code so the “Can’t play Book 2” doesn’t happen anymore

Book 2: Chapter 20 Public Release
Chapter 20: For Your Eyes Only!

Okay, to clarify so there won’t be any confusion: when Chapter 21 is out to the paid supporters, it’s the re-rendered version of Book 1 that would be released to the public supporters.
Paid Supporters, kindly download this one instead of the exclusive if you still haven’t played chapter 20 or some other reason arises.

Once the Re-rendered version of Book 1 is out publicly, all download mirrors to the old versions will be removed, so if for some reason you want to keep the old ones. Do it before then.

I’ll be catching up on the wallpapers before this month ends. A poll for it and something else will be up tomorrow.

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Everything below here has already been said during this chapter’s exclusive release, so if you’ve read it before; skip to the download links.

Finally! It’s up publicly, so the waiting time for public supporters should be back to normal and I firmly believe that we do need this “1 Chapter Behind” implementation, thank you.
So chapter 20, it’s 1100+ Renders and 72 Animations(Excluding hundreds of renders and 20+ scrapped animations), so quantity-wise, it’s not lacking at all; as for the quality, you judge.. Honestly, I expected it to be quite long, but not this long. It matches chapter 18 easily in length, maybe even more.

Everything about this chapter is difficult, there’s not a single part of this that went easy. Ch18 doesn’t hold a candle to this in difficulty.
How it went longer? It’s a mixture of wanting to not release it til it’s the best that it could be and to do justice to Akemi’s Arc and her steps toward her wants. I think I delivered it well. I may have gone over the top but to me, every scene with Akemi was needed, it symbolized her descent down the rabbit hole and not just hers.

Chapter 20 is an extremely important checkpoint for MTWY, so any less than the effort that I’ve given it was unacceptable. I also made sure that the chapter ended properly and that the buildup toward the big end is delivered in a convincing fashion, Got to leave you wanting more after all. I’d give anything to see your reactions by then. So lock your door, shut your curtains, and make sure you got your spoiler tag ready afterward if you discuss this chapter in any forum.

It’s actually funny and amazing at the same time, that while making this chapter, the details that needed to be filled in for Akemi’s ending came to me. Guess that’s what momentum does, Akemi’s ending is FULLY written, so that saves me some trouble. (You guys won’t see it anytime soon but I want to mention it anyway.)

Also, the you-know-what scenes in this chapter are a little tricky but there are hints in the dialogue so it shouldn’t be that difficult to see them all. Or just use the walkthrough or gallery.

This is an incredible feeling, I remember making chapter 1 and setting this plot, I kept thinking, “How do I get this far?”, most of this chapter’s plot points were made when MTWY was only an idea in my head. Now I made those ideas into something real. It wouldn’t have gone this far without your support, thank you is not enough. Also, I’m always looking forward to everyone’s feedback, it brings me joy to read and reply to your messages.

P.S. No Android Port yet, EO slept, what a kont. Will upload it ASAP.
TL;DR: Shit was hard, maybe too much Akemi, big boom at the end so watch for spoilers.

Book 2: Chapter 18
– Chapter 18 Storyline
– 1300 renders and 11 animations

Book 2: Chapter 17

-Chapter 17 Storyline
-Gallery update(Variations between scenes can now be viewed)
-Mouse pointer(Changeable via options)
-Messaging presentation(to be implemented to the rest of book 2)
-Official walkthrough

Book 2: Chapter 13

-Chapter 13 Storyline

-51 animations, from small to big ones!

-All about Hikari

-An Exciting Reveal

Book 2: Chapter 12

-Chapter 12 Storyline

-Revised main menu background

Book 1: Chapter 11 BUGFIX

-Optimized file size, we managed to cut down the game’s size by half without affecting the quality of the visuals.

-Punctuation, grammatical and minor errors fixed.

-Fixed the infinite loop for ch1, for those stuck in the infinite loop in ch1, please make a new save(only them).

Book 1: Chapter 11

Chapter 11 Storyline

0.1 Bugfixes

Book 1 v0.1
– My job of introducing the game has been taken away by someone and she’s doing more than that. (If you’re new to our game, it doesn’t matter.)

– GUI is completely new and improved: options, gallery, and Wall of fame in our credits. I’ll try to make it look nicer in the next book, but really, thank you to all you incredible people.

– You can now name your saves as well.

– Chapter 1 has been edited, mostly the clunky animations and one render conversation have been addressed.

– Small scenes in chapters 7 and 8, like really small. Just added flavors.

– Minor music and sound editing.

– Chapter 10 storyline of course.

– New fonts, big woop.

– Slight dialogue rework throughout the entire game. Doesn’t affect the story but it does make it less “cheesy”?

Chapter 9

Chapter 9 Storyline
Temporarily disabled the Georgia Font due to alignment issues on the android version.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Storyline
Use of Japanese Honorifics/Words can now be disabled through preferences
Polished dialogue from previous chapters for a more coherent story

Chapter 7

Chapter 7 Storyline
Textbox opacity/transparency slider
Addressed the issue about the android version’s difficulty during name input

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Storyline
Quick menu can now be disabled via settings/preferences
Adjusted main menu UI’s appearance

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Storyline
Upscaled previous chapters’ animations
Added Official Compressed Android Version(check our public pages).
Changed the raccoon mentioned in chapter 3 into a duck

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Storyline
New banner

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Storyline​

Added Font Choices.​

Added Android build​

Rehauled the code​

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Chapter 2

Chapter 2 Storyline​