It has been almost a week since the release of GOLDEN HOUR, and we can safely say that the update has been a huge success.
The response on our blog, Steam and in direct messages has been overwhelmingly positive. Among the 18 new Steam reviews published since the release, 94% are positive.
Players especially praised the new animations, lighting, environments and the overall improvement in visual quality.We also want to thank you for all the constructive feedback.Your comments helped us identify several issues after release, including missing images, positioning errors, animation imperfections and individual visual details that still needed improvement.Please remember that more than 4,000 images had to be processed and reviewed during the GOLDEN HOUR upgrade. I'm aware that not every enhanced picture might be perfect, but we really tried our best to improve everything we could.Your feedback was extremely important during development as well, and directly influenced several decisions regarding character faces, skin details, animations and overall visual consistency.
We developed a new and much more advanced animation technique, going far beyond what we previously presented in ELEANOR, LWT2 or the original version of HOROS.We also created a new image processing workflow that allows us to achieve much better lighting, add significantly more realism and natural detail to materials, while still preserving the original identity and facial features of our characters.We introduced new methods of content verification and game testing, which should allow us to significantly improve the technical quality of our future productions.Another major step forward was localization. Our translations are now verified not only with AI-based tools, but also with advanced LLM-assisted linguistic analysis. They are still not at the level of a professional human translator, but the improvement compared to our earlier machine translations is substantial.
All of this knowledge will now become part of our production pipeline and will be used in future projects, including SOUTHWESTERN SEXCAPADES.
Thank you for playing, reporting issues, leaving reviews and helping us make the game better.
Thank you for making GOLDEN HOUR such a successful release!
If you want more, please WISHLIST the upcoming DLC! Next week, we’ll talk more about it and show you more enhanced animations. And honestly, they look absolutely awesome!