Hello again, all! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa, Wishing you a joyful and meaningful Pancha Ganapati celebration, and Happy Holidays for all the other celebrations I didn't cover :) And it just so happens I have a present for Supporters.

So I talked about this a while back, and it's taken some time and some help from Steelmaker, but we've got it working. I'd like to present to you:

So um... WTF is this?

Well, a LOT of people have been asking for a Gallery of sorts. And we did have one. Two, in fact. One Rimulex coded, and one that was coded by someone from F95Zone. The Fantasies Collection Add-on enables an H-scene viewer that doesn't just play the video loops; you get to play the whole H-scene all over again. And I didn't realize it until now, but WCA has 16 H-scenes in it. I thought we had a LOT less. The Fantasies Collection will mainly feature H-scenes that are in the game, but may also end up containing extra non-canon H-scenes as we think them up, and potentially even the HMVs that I'm making for the Pandora's Box packs. 

Anyways, when you drop this file into your game folder, you'll be met with a new menu option upon starting the game:

From there, you'll be greeted by a brand new screen:

All of these thumbnails are animated currently, and the system auto-rescales whatever I put in each thumbnail slot. This means we're rescaling 9 videos at once. Which causes some performance issues, it seems. I'm working on a switch in the Options Menu that will toggle Animated Thumbnails off for performance reasons. Because if my GAMING PC with a fuggin RTX3080 is chugging on this screen, yeah, lil Android device would probably explode. 

Why do this, though? Well, over the last 3 and a half years, I've sort of struggled with providing value to our Supporters, especially the higher Tier folks. WCA has never been a quick fap game, but adding the Fantasies Collection functionality nixes the need to save at every H-scene when people want to see them again. I'm big on Quality of Life changes, and adding this sort of H-Gallery also has the potential to expand our audience a bit as well. Some people may not like the story, but may like the high-effort H-scenes. 

Speaking of story, the folks in the Cosy Cafe (https://cosy-creator.itch.io/cosy-cafe) Discord server have been of great help, and I've learned that the first 4 Episodes in Season 1 still need work, as the pacing and some of the content is turning people off before they can reach the meat of the story. I've begun ANOTHER rewrite, this time more in-depth, to address some of the assumptions I made about writing AVNs back when I first started this 4 years ago. One of those suggestions was to be able to disable Jumpscares.

And the kicker is, I've done all of this without requiring you to start a new game. 

We'll be rolling out the Fantasies Collection to T5 and T4 Supporters for testing fairly soon, as soon as I have that toggle switch added to the main menu. I'm gonna keep working on S2E4 and Season 1 Rewrite 2 Electric Boogaloo. Wishing you all a pleasant holiday season, and looking forward to feedback on the Fantasies Collection!

- Vic