Greetings to you all.

Hope you new year has been going well, and now that things have settled down from the holidays I figure it's time we go over the plans for the following year so everyone can catch up and get a sense for the exciting stuff we have coming your way.

Episode 7 Alpha is still being tested (it was the holidays after all so bug reports just trickle in), but the Beta is being fixed and polished and shaping up now.  I've been adding in some more images and just in general fixing the rough spots.  We'll have Episode 7 out this month for everyone, time for you to rescue Anaya and see where this whole Ziya thing is going to take you.  After that we're jumping into production on Episode 8.

Now, those of you who have watched the devstreams or joined us on the Discord already know that Episode 8 is going to be quite the thing.  We have 20ish sex scenes planned for it right now (trying for at least one or two of them to be non-humanoid options), and not only that but there's essentially two separate plots lines in it.  It's going to be a big one, and it's going to get rough as the war begins to heat up thanks to the Inanna's influence since arriving in the sector.

Of course right after that is Episode 9, which is again, two separate plot lines and will delve into the history of the war and the start of a major offensive in the sector.  This one also has a selection of sex scenes planned for it, and will feature some new races depending on how Episode 8 went.

We want both these huge episodes done this year (which essentially means 4 episodes this year given their dual plot nature, which would be a first for us).  The plan for the first half of the year, finish Episode 8 and also to reach the goal for more rendering hardware (to be able to do animations) and add more staff.

On top of all that, we're working on the Starship Inanna: Home Front series and Chapter 2 should be out next month and there should be more regular updates after that.  We're also going to be updating and releasing the World Anvil in due time as well and there’s some pretty good stuff there (those of you who are devstream regulars have seen a nice little chunk of the World Anvil wiki ).

I think that's about it right now, there's a devstream on this Friday (the 4th) for Patreon backers at 9:30 pm Central US Time.  There's going to be a Public Devstream on the Saturday the 19th at 8:00 pm Central US Time.  And you can catch the Devstream schedule here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23682914

Hope to see you all at one of the streams, and have a Happy New Year.

DMD47
(this has been copied from a public post on the Patreon page, just fyi)