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Progress Update #2: April 29, 2021
🕑 Added 2021-04-29 10:30:03 +0000 UTCSo - what’s new?
Obviously the “Big New Thing” is the launch into Early Access on Steam. How did that go? The short version: “It went pretty well.” Nobody is going to be retiring off the amount of money that we made there, but it is a really good start for an early access adult game, and we're pretty sure that if we can consistently release more content and improve the content that we have we can continue bringing people to our game. So we’re pretty pleased.
In terms of the quality of the game, what we have up right now is “a pretty good start.” If you play the game now you have a good idea for what it is we're trying to do, but you obviously understand that this game isn't done yet and that we're going to be putting a lot more content in it, and improving the content that's already there. IN our minds, that’s what Early Access is all about.
So what does the roadmap from here look like?
We're working on a more complete answer, but it's also very important to us that if we make promises we actually keep them. So we're not in a hurry to release a big one-year roadmap until we have a little bit better idea about how long these content updates take and how much content is in them. Because of that, we’ll probably start with a shorter road map covering the next 2 or 3 months. We'll hopefully have that out reasonably soon.
So what are we working on in the next few weeks?
First and foremost we're fixing any content that has any trouble right now. There's obviously some bugs in the game and we're clearing those out, and there's obviously a few bits of the game play or story that people are responding poorly to... But honestly most of the feedback seems to be extremely positive... so we're having to dig a little bit to figure out what people don't like. But that's okay. There's plenty of stuff in there that we don't like and we can fix that anyway. :)
Next we’re adding in a bunch of content that we cut before Early Access. We have a pretty big backlog of sort of half-built content that we weren't confident putting in our Early Access release that we now have a little bit of time to clean up, polish, and insert to improve the current game and flesh out some of the characters a LOT more - especially some of the ones without a bunch of content, like Reyna and Maria.
And then after that it's time to start adding new content that we haven't written yet. Of course we have a pretty extensive story in our minds for how this game plays out, what's going on on the island, what new girls we’re going to meet, and that sort of thing... but it's still in a pretty rough outline form. So we’ll be working on starting to build that.
So what about RIGHT NOW?
This week has been almost entirely about fixing bugs and issues that came up after lunch. To be quite honest it was a lot fewer issues than we expected so we're pretty happy about that, but it wasn't “No issues” - so there was still a pretty big hunk of work there.
Some things we’re specifically messing with now:
- Improving the fishing game
- Improving some of the minigames
- Adding in a couple of the minigames that weren’t finished
- Getting more basic content in for Maria and Reyna
- Finishing up some of the open quest lines for Cath and Gabby
So that's what the world looks like for us right now, among other things will be trying to do one of these updates weekly to let you know how things are going from now on. If we don't please yell at us so that we make sure that we do.
And again I just want to put a huge personal thank you to everyone who supported us so far. We're really happy to be part of this community and hope that we're making a positive contribution to it with our game.
Thank you.
