Dark Demarley
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Life and times update
🕑 Added 2024-03-22 16:19:20 +0000 UTC
Hey all!
Hope you are all doing well, I know I have been busy these last couple of weeks and hopefully that shows here and on my other platforms around.
Getting into the grrove of my new office / home / life and it took a little bit but I'm confidant that I feel good now in the new space. I didn't think it would take sucha toll to move shop and pick up the pieces, but it actually was more difficult then I expected!
Anyway, don't worry there is lots of content on the way!
There have been some changes to this Patreon lately, to reflect and update to the work I'm currently getting close to showing off. The 3 main focus games at the moment are Hinomori Nights, Vanilla Dream and The Midnight Channel.
Hinomori Nights and Vanilla Dream are more focused to be presented on Steam, and will mostly have private updates and beta testing for Patrons available. While The Midnight Channel is a game that can't be on Steam, and will remain on ithc.io with consistent updates as usual.
The tools I use to make my game have gone through a few evoloutions as well. As some of you know, I work primarily in Gamemaker Studio, with a few custom extensions thrown in for flavor. In the previous couple of months, some recent changes have made my development time extend quite a bit more!
I'm happy to saw that over the last week, I resolved a LOT of those issues and I'm nearing that flow that I used to have while programming in this toolset.
I know, a lot of you recommend that I use Renpy. The truth is that I don't know the tools very well yet, and if I was to tranisition now it would only take longer. My own tools allow me to do whatever I want with my program, and not be held by any restraints other than my own.
While I respect Renpy, I take pride in knowing I have made a similar tool on my own merit, and so I would like to see mine make it just as far :D
I got some news from Patreon recently saying there were more insight tools for us developers to see what you Patrons want more of. It was pretty neat to get a better idea of what you guys enoy out of this Patreon, and it made me realize I don't do enough user feedback. I will be putting up a poll to see what you guys want more of and what you don't care about as much, so I can gage this better.
I know a lot of you will most liekly answer with "A new update" but I also want to see if there is anything else I can be providing. For example, these rambling rants I do, I'm not sure if you guys get much out of this, but it does help me collect my thoughts!
I also try to put myself in your shoes, and think about the developers I follow. I'm going to try to do for you what I wish they did for me more, so hopefully that reflects in the comings weeks!
Anyway, if anyone has ideas or suggestions, or general feedback, please let me know. I"m focused, I'm listening and I'm ready to work hard on these projects to see them through!
Come join on the discord, I made some cahnges and it is much more involved as far as my projects go, it will be nice to hear from you all and see what your doing.
See you later, have an awesome day!
~DarkDemarley
