Thoughts and plans. (Patreon)

Hello everyone. This is gonna be a long read.

First of all, I want to thank all of you who supported me month after month during the development of the first chapter. I also welcome all new patrons. I do appreciate it. I don't know if I got that far without your support. I hope you all enjoyed the new update and chapter one overall. I've put all my soul into it. This is days, weeks, months of my life:)

Now, when the first chapter is finished, I want to ask you what do you think of it. I really need your feedback and opinion. Please tell me what you liked, and what didn't. What would you like to see in the future and how I can improve my game?

I do not claim to be a professional. I still consider myself a newbie) I'm aware of lots of aspects that can be improved starting from character models, renders overall, writing, coding (including stats and branching) etc. I don't have impostor syndrome, and I don't devalue myself. Just in case) I'm just soberly looking at my work and seeing the shortcomings in it. And as any good dev, I want to improve. So yeah, your opinion and feedback are important to me. It also applies to Patreon and our communication. Would you like me to get deeper into each aspect of the development? Or simple and brief dev updates that I make is enough for you? I don't really know how other devs communicate with their patrons, so some advice would be great)

Chapter 2

I'm getting ready to work on the second chapter. A lot of preparations need to be done. I need to work on a blueprint first. Some previous choices and stats got me really confused, to be honest. So I might need to reconsider some of them and their impact. I also don't really like depravity and virtue stats. Right now, they affect some dialogues, but it doesn't really bring much to the game and story in my opinion. Some choices may be a bit confusing and their impact on these stats is often non-obvious and sometimes can even don't make any sense. Like depravity, for example. Sometimes you gain these points when you act rude or just when you stared at someone's ass. It can result in some outcomes when your MC will act like a jerk. It's ok when you were rude previously, but it doesn't if you were just checking each girl's butt. But it may be too late to make any changes here. I'll see what I can do here and how I can improve all these stats thing, and their impact without complicating things too much for me.

I also need to work on some models and improve them. Veronica Jones needs to be reworked completely, so she might look a bit different in the future. Some may not like it, but she was one of the first characters I made, and I did a lot of mistakes. Her body won't change much, though. But the textures need to be changed for sure. I also faced some serious issues with other models, which makes my work much harder. I may have to deal with all of this, and it will take some time to figure it out. I don't really happy with how some models' skin acts with different lighting. And in some cases, I have serious problems with their breasts and sex organs. That sound weird lol.

Some people are not happy with English. Like it's broken or something. This is really important to me, and I'm doing the best I can to make it good. I've changed several translators in one year, and I have several proofreaders. If you know how to improve it or can help with proofreading and rewriting some dialogues, dm me.

Now, as for the writing and story in general. Working on such a complicated story alone is hard. I already have some inconsistencies and plot holes. If you noticed one, let me know coz I may just not really aware of it. The story I'm working on and the world that I tried to picture are too big and complicated to be fully revealed in just one game. It can be done, of course. But considering how much time it takes to create only one update without telling much, this can take years) That's why I might not get too deep into some aspects. I'd rather concentrate on some girl's events than spend one month working on a scene that doesn't bring much to the game except explaining some things. I'll still do it, but in some simpler way. Like just a few lines in a dialogue. Anyway, there are a lot of questions that still need to be answered, and I hope I'll answer all of them in future chapters. My notes are getting messy as well as my mind, so I need to work on them too) To structure and plan everything clearly.

I also didn't mention another aspect of 3d work. Environment and scene building, including lighting. Even though all of you enjoy my art, I'm still not completely satisfied with it. I'll continue to experiment with it and search for the best way to light my scenes. Sometimes I really struggle with it, especially in new environments. And considering how many new environments I plan to add, it may be quite a headache. As well as animations btw. That's my weakest part, and I'm trying really hard to make them look good. Hope they'll improve in the future. 

So, to sum up. This is an ambitious project, and I've made quite a lot of progress already. And still a lot of work and learning ahead. In chapter two, I'll try to focus on girls more and make the narrative more sexy and passionate. So to speak. In the next couple of weeks I'll work on models, on a blueprint for the next chapter and its branches, will do a research work to find new environments and other assets that may be needed and will experiment with new lighting techniques. There may be much more work that didn't come to my mind right now. Like working on my library and file organization, which is also always a mess after months of development. I'm not sure how big the next update gonna be and how long will it take to make. I'm leaning toward smaller and more frequent updates, as it really helps me to gain more attention to the game. However, it may result to some cases when some of you may not get much content depending on your choices and paths.

Thank you for reading this. I'll be glad to read your thoughts on it. 

mr.moonmi