Progress update :D and some other stuff (Patreon)

HELLO EVERYONE!

TLDR first; Adding more routes to 'is this NTR' so the only options aren't 'fast agreement' and 'love route'.

Chapter 3 of 'Distant connections' in progress, currently 200+ lines and 10 images. Playing around with a concept for a 4th story, but it's only being made in my 'downtime' so it wont effect other stories speed.

Mod tool to add your own stories 75% done, I've used it to create a few quick stories for testing, seems to be working, need ALOT of testing and UI. I also need to look into how I release it, and who gets it.

Thankyou to everyone for the support. Love you all 🥰

End of TLDR.

So the (very) long version!

I am HAPPY with the re-write of 'Is this NTR', and considering the 100% 'New one is better' result of the discord poll, I'm assuming everyone else is too. The only issue I have is that the route was either 'High venality' or 'Love' and... I hate that, so I'm adding a middle route with a bit more... 'resistance'. It's going to slow down the speed we get through the story (3 routes instead of 2, each with its own branches for the side routes), but I think having just the two makes it feel way too polarizing for my personal tastes. I might even go back and add some more earlier branches too at some point, but that wont be for a while.....

I've been working on the third chapter of 'distant connections' too. There are.... 4... routes through it at the moment? So even if I say '200 new lines of dialogue', you're really only getting 50 per route, so going to work on it a bit more before I release an update for it. The chapters have always been shorter than for 'Is this NTR', but it's still progressing.

I've also been working on a concept for a 4th story in the background. The actual STORY is 0% made, what I mean is a concept for the 'gameplay' of it. I've had an idea for something that I've never seen done in a phone game before, and it's something I'd like to try, but I also don't want to take away time from the stories people already like and are waiting for so... Just have to do more hours I guess? A 'concept demo' has been sent to a couple play-testers so waiting to hear back from them :) The original plan for the game was 5 stories, but I may have to live with 4.... (Why does it even NEED more than 2 stories? You'll find out... eventually)

The mod tool is 100% functional. You can create conversations, multiple phones, swapping POV's, branching dialogue, time skips, splash screens, IRL events.... Like everything the game does you can do through this little 'click to add message' tool. The UI is currently poor, and the onboarding is non existent, so it does still need a lot of polish.

Now... The main issue with the mod tool... IF I release it to everyone then I have 0 control over what people use it for, what they make, and what they release. In this space that is TERRIFYING. We also run the risk of 20 new creators popping up releasing their own games using it, I mean this tool does EVERYTHING and you need to know exactly 0 coding to use it. That means risks of everything from content I would never condone, to quick 'cash grab' releases. I have yet to decide exactly how I'm going to deal with this in the long run, but for the short term, if it releases, it will only be people I personally send it to. I have emailed Patreon about what happens if someone makes content for my game, using my tool, that breaks their TOS and whether it will effect my account, but haven't heard back yet.

Unfortunately because of the space we are in it just isn't as simple as 'Here, a thing you can use to make a game, go wild!', so while the tool may be functional, the actual release will be a slow SLOW process.

Finally... Does anyone else remember like.... 2 months ago? When I posted explaining that every other person working on this had disappeared and just left me with it... I'd never written in my life, never made any art, only ever been a programmer... But I just didn't want to leave an abandoned 0.1.... Yet now, look at where we are? I have made friends, have a decently sized discord server, 200 people following the project.... a story that has actually become popular?!

I never really expected to get here. I've poured WAY too many hours into this, more than I care to admit, but with the amount of nice comments, the people saying they liked it? Worth it 😂I KNOW my PR sucks, I know I ramble too much, I know that I don't 'speak' like some... game company... but whatever, I don't care. If I wana say thankyou, say that the support has motivated me past what I thought my limit was, and say that making this has become the best choice I've made in years, then I'll say it. Genuinely. Thankyou. To the people who have been following from the start. To the new people who tell me how much they enjoyed it. To the lurkers who just press the like button sometimes. To the people who pay to keep the project alive. To the people who voted to let me rewrite and entire story. To the amazing friends I've made. Thankyou.

We aren't slowing down now though! 🥳🥳

Kesash