Chinese:(Thank Chan for his translation).
1.大家好,经过讨论,我们很遗憾地宣布,九月份将是内测的最后一个月,这是因为…我们要准备在DLsite上发售了!我们在上周已经通过了DLsite的预告申请,计划发售时间是十月下旬。 https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/announce/=/product_id/RJ384983.html
无论最终是否选择购买,如果条件允许的话我们都希望大家可以帮忙转发一下,因为目前的收藏数量实在是太惨淡了(头疼)…我们希望Ntraholic能被更多的观众所了解和接受。为了给大家更多的动力,我们决定,如果收藏数量超过10000的话我们将在故事结尾额外增加一段后日谈(增加2-3张CG)。
2.关于之前的投票结果已经统计出来了,一共有500份左右投票,其中故事与小游戏的比例是9:1,看起来主线故事获得了压倒性的胜利,因此后面我们会尽可能不增加复杂的小游戏,把主要的功夫放在推进故事上。
English:
1.Good day, we have a sad news for everyone. September will be the last month for alpha. The reason for this is... we are actually planning to release in DLsite in late October!
This is the link to our preview page in DListe. https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/announce/=/product_id/RJ384983.html
No matter whether you will eventually purchase this game on DLsite or not, we hope you can help us to retweet. The favoriate number so far has been a bit frustrating...(sigh). We hope Ntraholic can be known by a broader field of audience. To give more incentives for our followers, we have decided that, if the "favourite" in DLsite exceeds 10000 we will add in some "after stories" in this game, coming with 2-3 extra CGs.
2.Regarding the voting on Mini-game VS Storyline, we have collected 500ish response. The ratio of Storyline & Mini-game is 9:1, which clearly shows that most players prefer main stories. Therefore, we will try avoiding unneccessary complex mini-games in the future and focus on the main stories.
3.Update of Progress over the last half month.
Summary:Chiho's home progress->50%,hot spring hotel->25%
-.We have added one more CG for the exhibitionism.
-.6 CGs in hot spring hotel+ 3 CGs with Lilith are added(except for some minor changes). Corresponding Live2ds have been postponed and they will mostly finish before end of September. (A example of Lilith Live2d in the followers section)
-.Background of the hot spring hotel are done!(I really like the animation of the Shishi-odoshi !)
-.12 animations in Chiho's home are added, including some special ones:)(Hot spring hotel animations exlcusive becasue they are done in another way.)
-.We have received some complains on the pixel animation so we change a way to draw them in the hot spring hotel.(There will be more frames than before).
-.Programming: the neglecting is basically done. We are thinking about some interesting triggers here(which wont make players frustrated). Besides, we are planning to add in a few more very short dramas here.
Besides, message and incall during sex are work in progress(I am sorry that the messages have been delayed for soooooo long qwq)
English:
We have been working on bug fixing and preparing for the hot spring hotel scene last week. Most of the bugs have been fixed but we want to wait for a few more days for the translation. The fix patch should include Chinese, Japanese and Korean translations.(Next Monday-Tuesday).
Besides, We have a good news that we have invited 森野めぐむ(https://twitter.com/mmegumu) to be Alice's voice actress. 森野めぐむ is an very experienced voice actress and she has provided an excellent voice sample for us. I will put a short demo below.
"(sigh), then what else could it be?"
"Ahh! What, what are you doing..."
Q&A:
As we mentioned before, there will be a short Q&A today. We have selected the most-frequently ask questions and we will show some fun facts about the journey.
Q1. When we will release it to Steam and DLsite? We have already submitted a preview page request for Ntraholic in DLsite(this page should be available next week), saying the release date to be end of October. If everything goes smooth we will even release earlier.
As for Steam, it should be around 1-2 months after DLsite, but also depends on some extra factors.
Q2. Most suggested features from the comments sections: Replay of the Live2D and more save slots(auto-saving). Will we have these two? Both of these two are working in progress!
Q3. Will there be multi-ending? Yes, there will be a few different endings.
Q4: Will there be more interactions with Lilith and Alice? I like both of these characters. We have already prepare some more events with Lilith, which will be seen later in the game. I have some personal fantasy for Alice, but I am not sure if this will be implemented in the game.
Q5. Did we abandon the Park scene?
Sadly, yes, for now. The inspiration comes from those live2d touchy touchy games. The park scene is more of a personal trial of seeing different features in the game but since it is not coming as expected we decided to take it off and replace it with the night market.
We was planning to have a mini-game here where player needs to take off Chiho's clothes and also be aware of those people in the park. Player can touch different part of Chiho's body to trigger different effect. For example, a gentle storke on her hair will make her happy and a impolite touch on some sensitive spots will make her upset. The less she wears the more player can do. In the video below I have used my mouse to touch different part of Chiho's body but the mouse is not shown in the recording somehow.
Some Live2d samples:
If players are interested, we might potentially make this as a separate scene from the game as a giveaway for players.
Q6: Prototype of Chiho and some scenes. We have changed Chiho's appearance for a few times until we finalize to the current one.
This is our prototype for the controller in the H section.
Q7: Will we take suggestions from the comment sections? Yes, we will consider the suggestions carefully.
Q8: Is there any more good news? Yes, we have another very good news that we really want to share with our followers. However, it seems it is a bit too much to cover in today's post. Therefore, we will schedule this to be next Monday. Feel free to take a guess what this surprise will be. For the first one coming up with the right answer(before we announce), we will name one character in this game with his name!