Progress Report | Over the Moon - 05/06/2024 (Patreon)

I am the worst. I lost track of time again. I thought I had another week before it was time for a progress report.

I'm going to go on a little tangent here. You can find a summary at the bottom of this post.

My plans for this series have been derailed ever since Petal's game was banned on Steam. Once itch.io shut me down, I had to start investing time in other things just to survive. I'm trying to build another empire so when this one finally finishes crumbling to the ground, I have something to fall back on. A lot of my time is being invested in other things so that I don't have to work at McDonald's when the Powers that Be have finally taken everything from me.

This is not fair to you guys. I should have been finished with Over the Moon at the end of last year. I should have enough funding rolling in to afford additional hands to help with coding and renders, I should have content for Penny being generated, and I should have at least one other new story in the works. But I don't because Steam and itch decided my works were too reprehensible for their platforms. It's bullshit. It's not fair to any of us.

Mid-Rant preview. Suzi chastises MC for being a numbskull. He deserves it. We all know he does.

With all that weighing on me, my motivation has wavered. I'm finding it difficult to concentrate, I'm having trouble staying positive, and I'm angry all the time. I feel robbed of the success that I earned, and I'm jealous of all the developers who are doing well because they colored inside the lines.

In light of all that, I have not been completely wasting my time. When I'm having trouble focusing on Over the Moon, I've been building assets and writing out the plot for a new game that I will be working on after OtM is complete. This is assuming both that I still have a Patreon after OtM is finished, and that you guys like the premise of the new game. We're going to codename this new AVN Project B. I may or may not have a preview for you guys inside the next release of Over the Moon. It depends on if I can make that much progress on it. Otherwise, it will be in the Chapter 4 release of Over the Moon.

TL;DR - I'm sorry Over the Moon is taking so long. However, I have a new project in the works that will be my next AVN after OtM is complete. I'll have a preview for it either in the OtM Chapter 3 release or the Chapter 4 release.

You guys are awesome for supporting me and for sticking with me through these hard times. I can't even express how much it means to me to have such generous fans. From the bottom of my Lockheart, thank you!