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A new chapter.
🕑 Added 2018-01-12 17:56:26 +0000 UTC After our first try at making a game, we've realized a lot of things. Good things and bad things.We put a lot of love into The Wind's Disciple, but there are things that both of us wanted to do different. We didn't want to redo parts of the game, so we've always tried to "close" up things that we left open in the past too fast.
Let's take a look at what we failed:
- Too little customization. We wanted to introduce an outfit system for Janna, but it was too simple.
- Too many characters. Although introducing characters in a game like this is always funny, the mistake was to not give them enough backstory. We wanted to give more scenes to Ron and Roxanne, and it is something we MAY add in the future, but in the end, the introduction of characters like Warwick, Katarina or Graves, darkened some of the others.
- No place for "more creativity". The universe of The Wind's Disciple is pretty open, but we couldn't transform our creation to something else. This will surely change in our next project.
- Too much stress to make it likable for people. We've read criticism, and we love it when it is well made. Not only for our game, but for other projects out there, and it affected us in some way. We wanted our game to actually finish, to give you the maximum content possible every update in form of scenes. But we forgot that not everything is about going forward in a game, but polishing the past. We will surely improve in this topic, and give you better content, instead of more content. Doing more polls, more information to people, etc. will help us achieve this. To each their pace.
This is just a summary of our thoughts. We're sure there's more to say.
Things we liked:
- Artwork. ChicaPixel has an amazing style that everyone liked and all comments about it made her feel great. Her art style will be here for us for the next project!
- Evolution of Janna. We really liked how the evolution of Janna turned out. As a shy girl coming out of an orphanage to a slutty girl. There's always room for improvement, but we feel it was good.
- Repeatable content. Something we wanted to do with this game was not stressing the player with saves, and giving them a way to see all content they've unlocked at the moment. You can do whatever you want; Warwick's visits will always be available again for you to see.
- Character personalities. We feel like every character had its attitude and personality, making them interesting in a certain way.
- First game ever. This is something we've never done. ChicaPixel has learned a lot about drawing for a game. Mewpix has learned a lot about programming a game. We're happy that this was our first try, we had times where we didn't feel good about it, but we loved working on it.
- Consistency. There were updates where we couldn't deliver all we wanted because of work or personal reasons, but most of them were pretty good at having content.
- Good reviews. There are bad reviews, these are necessary, but we've read a lot of good ones and we're really happy every time this happens.
We will try to implement those things from now on. Now, with all being said, let's talk about interesting things.
Our next game will be named Welcome To Erosland (Not a final name - still Brainstorming).
You're a young guy in his late 20's, living in a futuristic world, working for something he doesn't like, drowning in his everyday routine… But one day, you receive an email from an unknown source. "You've inherit a villa and lots of money from your unknown grandfather." It isn't a fake.
You travel to the destination and find the villa… and a droid that welcomes you. You're the owner of this place.
This young guy will discover a mysterious high tech machine that will change his life even more.
Welcome To Erosland (provisional) will let you create a theme park… Well. A sex theme park.
But you'd say… you will need workers for that. The mysterious machine it's an inter-dimensional device that let you connect to beings in any dimension, so our protagonist will take advantage of that and "recruit" girl workers (maybe guys in the future) from this machine from ANY dimension. Yes, you will see your favorite characters from videogames, animes, TV-series… in this game. (You will help us decide through polls which girl should appear in the game, besides lots of other things) The first girl to join in is pretty well known.
- These girls will be fully customizable. Our intention is to create lots of outfits and accessories for them.
- They will work for you in the buildings and attractions that you will build in the villa.
- They will also earn money with stream shows… and later on, cam shows. They will be on social networks. (Very up-do-date am I right?)
- You will be able to send them to their origin world and watch them through the camera of your personal droid.
- Each girl will have her own main quest where you'll be able to know more about her.
- You will build different buildings, starting with a tavern and maybe ending with a roller coaster! (All sexual related, of course!)
- Erozon will be the online shop that will let you buy things for your girls or for you.
- You will need to train these girls on how to please the clients but also… please you. Little by little, the girls will gladly want to continue working for you.
There's a story that will lead our protagonist to the meaning of why his grandfather have him the villa, and he will also discover how does the inter-dimensional machine really work.
If you've played "trainer" games, this will be one of them, but we will take it further beyond.
We will be giving hints and showing more about the game each week, while we work on it. (More for higher patrons)
We hope you join us in this new adventure!
PD: And remember, heroes never die!
Comments
PiXel Games
Thank you! We will be giving some hints of the new game as soon as it starts to take form. :)
Veit1991
Here is a post I forgot responding to. First of all, congratulations on your finished game! I had a lot of fun but also some to complain about. Most of it you already mentioned. Now this new project is certainly ambitious and I can't help but wonder whether you are up to it or not. On the other hand, I love surprises. It has at the very least a lot of potential. So make sure to take your time. Cheers
HentaiLord
i really hope Katarina will make her return in Erosland <3
I love Wind's Disciple! I can happily say I put about 15 hours into the game to get 100% completion <3 The game's narrative was pretty interesting how Janna transitions in mentality. My only gripe is the ending, she finally had her main outfit but no rewarding scenes with it (a few cutoff bits on summoner rift). Looking forward to your future releases, maybe a story with Demacian characters and tie-in with Katarina/Janna?? ;]
PiXel Games
Don't worry! Just playing our game and spread it out in the internet is good. :)
that is cute but i am poor you know, is anything a poor one like me can do to help you (i not want free stuff is just goodwill)
PiXel Games
We will probably make some small teawks in the future, and there are still scenes left from the 50$ patrons.
this is the end of the wind diciple?? nothing more moving to next game?
PiXel Games
It will be finished! It's a scene that only happens one time so we didn't want to focus on it while there were more important things to do. But it will be fixed probably next update.
Awww not a girl mc this time
Alexandraus
Hmm. The game idea seems very familiar. How about put a bit of salt and pepper. Make the guy 70 years old. :) That will give at least more funny jokes and unpredictable vector in story telling
Dennis Van Hout
also, too bad the scene with Janna looking at Roxanne getting fucked by Ronald never got beyond a scetch :(
Young & Naughty
Omg, there's really fckton of stuff! Good luck in that!
This sounds super ambitious, I hope you're able to accomplish it!
Outdx
Or the game Akabur's currently working on. Not that I'm complaining, it sounds interesting.
ZULEYKA GAMES
That’s great storyline. But seems a little like plot of the Big Brother game. Whatever, good luck in developing, colleagues! ;)
Albatros
Angel?
PiXel Games
Not yet, we will say something as soon as we know it.
Nasi Bungkus
Great
Nikolaj K.
Imo i think its in a big risk of getting compared too heavily to akaburs SC34. It sounds incredibly similar, and that due has had years more experience, which can cause their game to unfairly feel worse than ily is.
Oh Hey There
Sounds good as hell
Saigon
So the next game is a slave trainer - nice. The way you describe it sounds a bit too ambitious though and im afraid you might not be able to deliver all of the planned features. Im curious how will our protagonist "convince" girls to perform for him. Is he gonna just force them, blackmail them, buy them like prostitutes or something completely different... "If you've played "trainer" games, this will be one of them, but we will take it further beyond." - not sure what you mean by that. IMO just focus on making solid trainer game and that will be more than enough. No need to take it "further beyond". ""recruit" (...)maybe guys in the future" - no, just no.
Reutermo
Really interesting stuff, especially regarding the strength and weaknesses of the game. I agree with them, especially the games strengths. I would also add to the cons that it sometimes was hard to understand what to do next, that you had to do something X amount of times before something new unlocked. Either way, really look forward to this new game, do you have any soft date when we can see something playable?
Curly
>young guy >in his late 20's lol >inherit a villa and lots of money from your unknown grandfather >It isn't a fake lolol
I'm still playing through...but I'm in love! I will donate some of my meager funds towards your cause, keep up the great work! Also, ChicaPixel's art style is easily one of the best out there, and I've seen and supported quite a few pieces! Thank you, hope you find great success and continued awesome projects going forward! ^^
Maremma
I really liked your game, if i had more money i would be a patreon. I've just finished it with 100% completion and i foud it to be really good. There is always room to improve, but remember that this was the best you can do... right now. Be always happy about your achievement, don't let anyone put you down. I didn't really liked Janna or League of Legend in general, but i've loved how you have put them into this visual novel. I hope to see your works in the future and maybe find a job to help you in this amazing trip ^^
Javan R
I like the concept you guys have for the next game, and I do agree about the con of too many characters. I felt a bit disappointed seeing Roxanne pushed into the background, but I did enjoy the characters overall.
