Hello there you amazing Steam people! It has been over a month already since I shared what's going on with you so I feel like now is a good time for an update. I will start with some personal stuff which has been happening these last few weeks and then I'll update you on the current status of the game and the concrete plans for the prequel going forward. Last week I had my hearing as witness/side plantiff regarding a case that lead to one of the suspects ( the main suspect, actually ) to frame me to the german Police which ultimately lead to them confiscating all my hardware and harddrives. Now here comes the interesting part: The Main witness fled to thailand. I'm not joking and this is not a prank, one day before the court case was opened ( 19th March ) he messaged the court and told them he fled to thailand - Because he is afraid to testify in court because of his friends. Him and his friends mugged and robbed me back in August 2023 which led, like I said above, to this guy accusing me of horrible things and using faked evidence ( my lawyer tried to explain so many times that everyone can fake WhatsApp or Telegram chats ). Since all but one suspect were released again ( after they got arrested by the SEK, which is like the german version of the S.W.A.T. ), it was apparently pretty easy for him to flee. He now has an international arrest warrant open and while my lawyer thinks he will eventually come back, I doubt it. Anyway, this doesn't matter too much since his four friends were still there when I had to testify. This was probably the second hardest day of my life ( only getting beat by being raided by the cops ), but I'm glad this part is "over" now. The fact that the main suspect ( and main accuser in the case against me ) fled to thailand is positive, though, which hopefully the state attorney will also see eventually. The end of the current court case is set to the end of may - It could be earlier ( or later ) as well, though. Since the main suspect is not here it should be faster, though. Fingers crossed for that at least. The questioning in court lasted around 2 1/2 hours and the judge, state attorney and most of the lawyers were okay as well ( just 2 exceptions for the lawyers who asked questions where even the judge rolled with her eyes ). Okay, that was a lot of stuff that didn't have anything to do with the game, but I feel like you guys still deserve to know what's going on and why I'm sometimes more "silent" for a longer period of time. While I was silent I was working a lot, though. Not only on Chapter 4 but also on My New Memories: The Beginning, which is going to be the prequel for My New Memories. If you are not familiar with why I'm making a prequel, it's basically to "kill time" and keep my rendering skills fresh while also doing something for My New Memories. The prequel will play around 20 years before the main game, before the MC and Anna reuinited and will feature Sabrina and Bethany from the main game. So, the prequel. I made great progress on it and the first day is already fully playable. I read through all of your comments that said I should not make it free and just ask a small price for it - Which is probably what I will have to end up doing anyway. My initial plan was to make the prequel free so people can get a intro and then maybe decide to buy the main game. But with upcoming legal fees and other things, I might have to ask for a small price for it, like 3.99 or 4.99. I'm not 100% sure on this yet and this is still all subject to change, I will probably know for a fact once I'm getting closer to the release of it - Which should be sooner than later! I hope this is okay for you guys and if you have any thoughts about this, feel free to share them here in the comments or in the discussion section of the main game. As soon as I have the Steam page up I will also explain there why I'm making a prequel and why I can't work on the main game right now. Wishlisting helps a lot so I'll let you guys know as soon as I have something to show! I already showed you the girls of the prequel and explained what it will be mostly about. While the MC and Anna are soulmates in the main game, the MC still gathered some experience before him and Anna became a couple again. Anna had all her first times with the MC, but the MC already got some experience with other girls before that. And not only that, he was also introduced to some rather...Interesting kinks with them. The only thing I changed from my previous news post is that the game won't play in college but in a university now. I know that there is not a big difference if you are from the USA, but this will make it 100% certain for steam staff that the game only features adult characters, not high schoolers or anything like that. You will get to experience the backstory of five girls you will eventually meet in the main game as well - From Sabrinas best friend, Lea, the ginger beauty and her very sexy mother to Jackie, MCs best friend, Rei, a very pretty girl from Japan that will have a big reveal in the end and Amelie, a girl you will meet in the university who didn't have an easy life ( I know, I like to make characters like that ). Like I said above, the first day is already fully playable and will introduce all the characters to you. You will also hear more about Anna which can be interesting for people that already know the main game. I did my best to make sure that even if you never played My New Memories before, you will still get engrossed in the story. At least I hope I did, you guys will be the judge for that. Okay, enough of the prequel, I of course also worked on Chapter 4 of the main game. With me not being able to really make any renders it's kinda difficult to write as much for it right now, but I made some very good progress. I'd say I have around half the length of Chapter 3 content written already with myself reworking and redoing some scenes already. For example, I had a lewd scene planned for the beginning with a different woman that I ended up changing to another. So you still get a lewd scene, it will just be with a different woman, which means it will actually be even better ( and funnier ). As soon as I have my assets back the release should not take longer than 2 or 3 weeks. I will let you guys know as soon as possible. To end this very long post I'll give you guys some screenshots from the prequel which will also be featured on the Steam Page for it. The Steam Page should go live next week, if all things go according to plan. Please share any feedback, critcism or whatever is in your mind in the comments or in the steam forums. Positive, negative, neutral, feel free to post about it, especially regarding the price thing for the prequel!