First front to back playthrough

Getting close.  Was just able to complete our first playthrough front to back and get through all the content.  Ran into a load of bugs on the way, but was able to fix all of them and never have to use any manual switches to fix anything.

Normally this would happen a bit earlier in the dev cycle, but 0.5 has a different design then most prior releases.  Generally each release focuses primarily on a single event chain which is long and winding.  0.5, from a dev standpoint, is far more like a batch of 15 simple strings.  Each string in itself is easy to check, but what proved the biggest challenge was binding them together properly where everything works as it should and the it all feels natural. That part is done, mostly just oddball grammar bugs, the always present /n[1] (which needs to be \n[1] to work) and a few missing faces.

I may throw in a few more scenes while my testers try to find what I missed, but Harem is over 140 scenes with what 0.5 adds in.

April release is almost a certainty.

I can't stop writing scenes!

I'm trying to test.  Really I am.  But every time I play for more than 30 minutes a new idea for a scene comes in.  Get through Eliba, I get an idea for a bonus scene in the pirates cove.  Clear out the orc camp, and here's one for the Tower of Selem.  And they're starting to breed.  One scene is making ideas for another.

I guess that's why I'm thankful for my testers.  Because I suck at it ;)

Up to 140 scenes between major and minor scenes.  So you all have quite a bit of porn coming at you.  Still on pace for a release sometime during April.

Testing has begun on 0.5

0.5 has reached an beta state!  Where the update isn't finished, but the vast majority of content is in as well as a huge number of bugs.  moonblack and Calristan have been doing a great job digging through the new content and finding the many many errors I made.  Part of development I guess.

Raziel321 is working on a few new combat scripts which should hopefully give the combat in Harem some much need flavor.  Don't want to go into too many spoilers about it, but I'm quite excited on how it's going to play and feel.

Megaflamer and ninjican are finishing up the last of the art content in 0.5.  Looking very nice so far, much like a living world.  Sprites are solid with a few custom sprites for different character outfits.

Myself, I'm still writing.  Finishing up the end sequence of 0.5 and then going to go back and add a few more scenes to the 0.4 content.  I'm a fairly lousy tester (as I act the way that the I expect the player to act) so during most of the testing phase I work on backfilling some content.  There's still about three long events that I have to finish writing before 0.5 could possibly released, and 5 more scenes or so I'd like to add if time permits, although I can release without them.  Then a bit of breadcrumbing events and some NPC filler dialogue.

Also we've squashed some bugs that were in 0.4 content.  Noemi's brothel sequence should be completable as well as Sarah's orc GoR scene.  

I'm not looking for any more testers (or contributors at all atm).  But 0.5 is progressing nicely and I'm giving a rough ETA of some time in April for initial release.