Some Bad News and Some Good News (Patreon)

I know you've all been waiting to see how progress is going on the next game but sadly this post is going to be a little different than the past few. I have unfortunately decided that the best thing I can do right now is to pause development on the game. Obviously this isn't something I wanted to do but after thinking everything over it was necessary for a few reasons

The first major reason is that development on the game is taking a lot longer than I expected. Over the last 2 months I have been able to get 2 scenes complete for the intro of the game. This is out of 10 total scenes that make up full intro which I wanted to have finished for the first release of the game to patreon along with the first story which is another 20 or so scenes long. Even if I can dramatically speed up development I feel it will still be over a year until even the first release is done. This is just way too slow considering the full game is planned to be at least 20 stories long

This could have been alright if I was able to hire some extra people for animation and the other jobs while releasing each story as it was finished but now that's no longer possible. Recently steam made it so you could no longer release adult games in early access which was my plan for this new game. This would mean that for the next few years I would be relying solely on money made on patreon for support until fully completing the game. If I was to make as much as I did while making Last Hope it was barely enough for me on my own but to also cover the costs of hiring others to help I would very quickly run out of money

There is a chance that the game does get more attention and does better on Patreon then Last Hope but I think its too risky to hope that happens on a game of this size. Especially because if it doesn't I wouldn't be able to continue working on the game on my own

So I know that this will be really disappointing for everyone who's been following development but hopefully you can understand why I have decided to make this decision. I do really hope to be able to come back to work on this game as I think It will be really amazing but for the moment I have to put it on the back burner until I know I can get it done

Now you're probably wondering If I'm no longer working that game what am I doing. Well I had a idea for another game a few months ago that I have been slowing adding to which is what I'll be working on instead. It's quite different to the games I've worked on before but It's a lot smaller in scope and once most of the systems are working adding additional content will take much less time. I'll save the details for now but expect another post soon to go over what the game is going to be

Thanks to anyone who reads all of this, hope you can understand why I've decided to switch focus and that you look forward to seeing the new game I'm working on. Let me know your thoughts and I'll be happy to respond

One more thing, I am going to remove the image channels from the discord. It's nothing but scams at this point and they were never really active anyway but just wanted to let you all know