Leaving DNA News

Leaving DNA: Episode Four will be released on Steam on Tuesday, February 4th. I'll post an episode changelog on the 4th, but the game now features nearly 10,000 still renders with over 100 lewd animations. There are over 110,000 words of dialogue for Episodes One through Four.

If you have already purchased the game on Steam, the new episode is already included with your purchase. All you will have to do is login and the Steam client will automatically update your game.

I do need to make you aware of one bug I found and have fixed for Episode Four. Remember this choice back in Episode Two?



Unfortunately, due to a typo in my coding, the game did not save your choice for this menu. If you are only interested in dating one of the four LI's, then don't worry about this--she doesn't do much regardless of what you chose. But if you are interested in getting to know her a little better then you will need to reload a save from the very beginning of Episode Two or end of Episode One to make this choice again. Remember that in any Ren'py game you can press and hold "CTRL" to quickly skip through content you have already seen. I apologize for the bug.

I will talk to you on February 4th and thank you very much for your patience!

--Monk

I hope you all enjoy this holiday season and that you're able to spend quality time with some people you care about.

Thank you for being a fan of Leaving DNA and a great big thank you for everyone who has supported me by purchasing the game on Steam this year!

--The Impious Monk

Hello everyone.

I'm sorry I didn't post a progress report in November. I keep thinking I am almost done with the episode and so my original intention was to postpone the report for just a short period so I could announce a release date. Unfortunately, these last few scenes I've been working on have just ended up being much bigger than I expected them to be, so that short postponement turned into a month, and yet I still can't announce a release date.

While Episode Four has taken me longer to finish than I expected, I have been working hard over the last ten months. Episode Four will be big and will have significant story progress. I hope once it's released you will feel it was worth the wait.

At this time I've finished over 3,300 still renders for Episode Four. Compare that with 1,896 renders for Episode Three, 2,536 renders for Episode Two, and 1,705 renders for Episode One. I've also finished rendering 45 animations and Sandem is hard at work on posing the last batch.

I will keep you posted on my progress. Thank you for your patience.

--Monk

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Hello, just a quick note to let you know I'm still working on Episode Four. At this time there are over 2100 post-worked renders and ten new animations. By my estimate there is over two and a half hours of new gameplay so far. By comparison, my estimates were 2 hours for Episode One, 3 hours for Episode Two, and 2.5 hours for Episode Three. I still have a lot of work to do before Episode Four will be ready. (The attached image is not an in-game render, just something I made for this post.)

Thank you for your patience!

--The Impious Monk