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PROJECT PLANS 2025 early access
🕑 Added 2024-12-12 09:35:09 +0000 UTCHi homies. Here's an early access version of the Project Plans post coming up next week:
The end of the 2nd year of this whole BRAVE BANGERS thing is coming up soon, so I thought I’d do another lil recap and preview thing like I did last year
MOMMY MANHANDLER
MOMMY MANHANDLER will continue to sorta update over time. If you missed a previous notice about this – the game will be moving towards updating every other month next year, as I just don’t have the time to make enough new stuff to justify doing monthly updates anymore
So there’ll be a small lil Christmas-themed update for December for the Patreon peeps, and then the next update after that will come in February 2025
The game also officially hit a year last month, which feels weird to me, cuz it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. It’s far and away my most successful game so far, having recently hit 20k downloads compared to the 8kish that BLOOD BITER BEATDOWN did. Thx to everybuddy who played it and stuff
Although now that I have been working on it for a full year, I do have to admit that my feelings about the game have changed a lot. When I originally started, it was just gonna be this side project that I did for fun in my free time whenever I felt like doing MILF centric stuff. It was something that was meant to give me something to do while waiting for my collab partners on my other “main” game projects
But since then it’s become basically my main project, and I’ve been kinda mixed on how I feel about that. On the one hand, I’m very grateful and happy that lots of people have taken interest in it and for the peeps who do like it, but it also means that this dumb sloppy project I made for myself has kinda become a “job” where I have to work on it constantly and check on peeps’ feedback. It’s also the most amount of negative feedback I’ve ever gotten on anything I’ve done which I’ll admit I wasn’t really ready for.
That’s left me kinda unsure of what to do about the game – do I overhaul it for the umpteenth time to try and make it genuinely good, do I try and return to it just being something fun for me personally and not take it too seriously, or do I just speed through the “important” content and try and get the game wrapped up smoothly next year? idk
I don’t plan on quitting or anything; I am committed to, at the very least, make sure the main story content gets completed, which will probably take awhile, but I’m not sure if I want to do any more than that. We’ll see
BLOOD BITER BEATDOWN 2
This game was kinda on hiatus for a long time as I was working with a collab partner for the sprites, but since that fell through I recently decided to start the whole thing over by myself a few months ago. While I still don’t have a ton of time to work on it, I am slowly trudging along since it’s long overdue at this point
The game will have a demo relatively soonish – I’m shooting for the very end of the year, but if I need to push it to early January that might be the case as well, we’ll see
Otherwise, the game is going okay for now. I’ve gotten most of the character portraits done. The hard part is gonna be the sprites, since I’d like them to be a little more detailed/involved than the first game despite the fact that I’m not a sprite artist, but I think it’s coming along okay
The full game I’m shooting to have finished maybe by spring of next year? Maybe summer at the latest, barring any life emergencies or whatever.
STRIP STRIKERS & OTHER GAMES
Unfortunately, I think this game is prolly canceled. I haven’t heard from my collab partner in like a year, and at this point I don’t even remember where I left off or what my development process for the game was, and I don’t have much free time in my life anymore, so I don’t know how I would even manage to squeeze it into my schedule or how to get back into the swing of things if I did hear from them again. This game was already delayed by a lot for a similar hiatus a long time ago, so I think it’s just dead
I also recently cancelled another game project I was working on that was gonna be this fantasy RPG breeding game thing. With both of those, having to restart BBB2, and my troubles with MOMMY MANHANDLER, I’m thinking I should prolly call it quits on making games in general. I just kinda suck at it and keep running into problems with them, so I think it’s prolly best to give up on them once I finish MM and BBB2
BRAVE BANGERS
Speaking of things I should prolly drop cuz I suck at em – the BRAVE BANGERS story!
I am still in the midst of writing Arc II, and the last few chapters have had long, long stretches between updates. This has always been the least successful thing that I have here on the site, and I mean it’s not really hard to see why; it’s a dumb story with barely any porn in it by a guy who can’t write lol
It’s been a pretty fun lil experiment for me to kinda figure out more about my characters and the lil worldbuilding thing I had going on, but I think once I finish Arc II, I will prolly close this project out. It doesn’t do very well and I don’t think there’s anything that would really change that. I’m not a writer, so having this big writing project isn’t really a good fit for me
I was already kinda considering maybe closing it out earlier this year and maybe transitioning towards telling the whole BRAVE BANGERS/GLYPH story stuff in games, but since I’m prolly not gonna be making more of those I think that’s prolly just gonna be the end of this whole thing. I have a lotta fun/cool ideas planned for it, but I just don’t have it in me to make any of them, so I think it’ll also be good for me to let all that go lol
Arc II is prolly about half wayish done, but I will try and focus on it a bit more to get the remaining chapters out at a better pace
BIG BANG BONENANZA & OTHER SITE STUFF
This has also been taking me longer between updates than last year’s, and I apologize to all the homies who’ve collabed on it and all the peeps who have submitted characters for how long it’s been taking. It’s still going along, and I will try and speed up the pace a lil bit more and not take so long between updates
Another project I haven’t been able to update as often as I’d like is the Hiroto/Sophie/Phoebe comic, which is still sitting on only 1 page. Sorry, it’s just been tough to make time for it. It’s definitely not cancelled, as its one of the few things I’ve been doing the past few months I’ve genuinely really enjoyed doing. Again, I’ll try and speed up on releasing these, as it’s also something that does pretty well too
I have a few BANG BITES scenes that’ll be coming out within the next few months that have art ready to go. After that, though, I’m not sure. Even though I’m considering dropping BRAVE BANGERS cuz I suck at writing, I feel like BANG BITES scenes might be able to continue, since it’s mostly just short little scenes with porn art, so I think it’s not that big a deal for me to make every now and then. More specifically, I’m working on one about Pedro losing his vcard to Hana, and one about Hiroto banging BB and Sophie, so stay tuned for dat
Anyway, that’s kinda where I’m at with my current projects and what 2025 is looking like on here. idk what I’m doing with myself anymore tbh. I don’t really enjoy anything that I make and kinda feel like I’ve just been shitting out bland, forgettable stuff for most of this year, and I’m not really sure what/how to change that, or if changing that is even the right move
But whatever, don’t wanna end on a downer note. thx to everybuddy who’s still continuing to follow me and my stuff! It’s now been about 4 1/2 years that I’ve spent on this drawing thing, and when I started that I never thought I’d do any of this other shit
idk what the future of my shit is gonna be at this point other than finishing the projects I’ve started, but I’ll try and make it dece lol
Comments
THEWIRLYDIRLY
Can’t wait for the bang bites I love those
David Koller
To give direct feedback - I found out about you by Mommy Manhandler and then checked the other stuff, mainly only checked for Mommy Manhandler stuff though. To me, you have a lot of talent with drawing and writting, seriously stand above most Hentai games - but on the other hand, I think you're spread too thin and try to do too much, both with Mommy Manhandler and then doing other projects on top. No wonder youre feeling burntout, anyone would at your pace. I think you should take a break for a month or two and really figure out what Mommy Manhandler is supposed to be - is it supposed to be a passion project for you, or it is now on the way to being a job - because imo if you solely focused on MM, you could easily price Patreon at 10$ and get a ton of people here if you promoted a bit. Easily 15$ if you animated the scenes slightly. At the end - its a porn game, does it really need tacked on combat system or did you just want it there? Should it be really be exploration/ item fetching based system or just a VN? Because youre really good at writting the stuff, why not build the game on that? I get that direct feedback can be harsh, but it just means people are somewhat passionate about your stuff. Whatever you decide is the right path, there is not bad choice here.
Trifire
I really like Brave Bangers, but I also understand your decision, no need to rush things either, take your time :3
Boneyard
I don't think you've been making bland stuff. I think you're just suffering burnout because you're trying to do too much all at once. My friend is a game dev and his projects always blows out of proportion so he just took a break and tried to rethink his process. I think that all you need is a break to think about your next direction because I like all your stuff. It's a shame a lot for stuff is cut but at the same time, it's not something to be discarded. There were a lot of good ideas so it's just possible to try again later. It's a slow process but that's what my Friend has learned in the 2 years he's been devving.
