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Haven's Port/Holiday Poll
🕑 Added 2023-10-05 20:19:03 +0000 UTCTLDR VERSION: There is an option available for another Haven's Port build in December, which would fill in some more general scenes of the game. Skip down to The Options for December if you don't care about the reasoning.
No one expects the focus poll! Or, at least, I expect that some of you didn't expect one for Haven's Port this month. It is, after all, supposedly the last build of the game. Right? Well, that's mostly right! Possibly even entirely right! Depending on how this poll goes, there might be one more!
First, let me be clear by reiterating something I've said a couple of times already. Haven's Port is drawing to a close. Nothing can stop this. Not because I couldn't keep adding to the game from a content perspective. I could theoretically add on to Haven't Port indefinitely. Haven's Port is being wrapped up because:
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1) I'm running into the hard limits of the engine. At this point, the actual App for Twine LAGS by a second or two as a type new code in. Haven's port has just shy of a 1000 Twine passages, and twice as many links. It's reached a point where Twine itself is struggling to handle the size of the game.
2) I've somewhat grown past the game. If you look at the quality difference between early Haven's Port and recent Haven's Port (let alone Left Hand Magic), the quality difference is staggering. I've gone through multiple hardware upgrade cycles. Daz3d had basically retired the original model series I was using for characters. And I've learned a lot about how to actually get the most out of Daz in the first place. It's time to move on, rather than trying to keep working around old issues and limitations that stem from what I was doing (and what was even available) back when I started the game.
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The release this month is going to be the last full build of Haven's Port. I will not bend on that. HOWEVER, it occurred to me that there's still a lot of places that could use a little bit of filling in. More Chastity and Futa content, some closure for relationships in the game, and so on. It also occurred to me that I need a plan for December. For those of you who were with me last year, you'll know that I decided I can't pull off a Full Build of something like Left Hand Magic during the month of December. It's the one time of year that I have family obligations and such that I either can't get out of, or am not willing to get out of. Last year, I gave people several options in a November Poll about what to do with December. The result, as it happened, was the one-shot game The Morning After. Which I think went over pretty well.
Something similar is an option this time, as well. However, I realized it could also be an opportunity for Haven's Port to get a last hurrah of sorts. While it wouldn't be a full build on the size of this month's, I could easily arrange to add 15+ 'general scenes' to Haven's Port as December's game content. Scenes that would fill in a lot of those little nooks and niches in the game that seem not-quite finished. The exact focus would be up to a poll in December itself, but some additional Chastity content would be a certainty. Given how popular I know that aspect is with all of you, I've never been happy with the number of scenes for it I've gotten into the game so far.
I know December is two months out! So sorry about this being so early! But...I figured if I didn't do it now, a lot of the Haven's Port people that would be interested might have abandoned ship by November ;-). Get your vote in below!
Note: I've opened this poll up to $3 patrons and above this time, instead of the $5 and up crowd as normal for Focus Polls. I want as broad an opinion as I can get!
Note 2: This poll will run all month, instead of just until the 10th as it usually does. I don't need to rush it, since it's effects won't be important until next month at earliest.
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The Options for December:
Haven's Port Last Hurrah: With this option, I will do a 'general scenes' pack for Haven's Port in December. This would add an additional 15+ scenes around the island, expanding options for Chastity and Futa Transformation encounters, adding additional content for Lovers, and so on. Exact makeup of the build would be determined by an additional poll in December itself.
A Partial Left Hand Magic Build: Once Haven's Port is done, I'm going to be putting my nose to the Grindstone hard on Left Hand Magic. Monthly updates, hopefully each a little bigger than the last couple have been. I DO have a plan for a game to follow up Left Hand Magic and Haven's Port, which will take lessons learned from and mix it into soemting new. A game which is intended to mix the more open-world style of Haven's Port with the animation of LHM. But I will be focusing on Left Hand Magic first, driving it to a conclusion in summer or fall of new year. This option would be simply to keep plugging along and hammering at that goal, just with a slightly reduce Build size to account for the family time in December.
Another One-Shot Game: The Morning After was a pretty nice little game! And quite well-received! It was, to be honest, just a little bit too ambitious and didn't leave me with the quite the amount of room to breath that I needed last year. As such, if I do another one like it, expect the game to be slightly smaller. That said, it will be similar in content type. A fun bondage mini-adventure (escape themed or similar) that plays to the themes of my games. Exact nature to be voted on later if this option wins
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