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Public release: World a71, Mundanity a16, Farmster Girl World a3
🕑 Added 2022-01-03 20:22:49 +0000 UTCSo yeah there's a little interesting surprise tacked on to the end huh? I wanna talk about that and a few other things, but I'll save it until after the updates:
Devious World
- Main: Plushified Jamie can see that the dildo Tanya is getting out is really weird.
- Main: Eric can now blackmail Ranma with the footage he took after using the Slowburn on her.
- Main: I considered and realized that 'Barbarian' didn't seem very likely as something Layla would pick. It's been replaced with Druid.
- Main: Cyan's infiltration of her parents' secret party can continue.
- Main: Eric can summon the Orgasmatron to use on Ranma.
- Main: Jamie can have a realization when facing Cognitive Tanya.
- Main: Jamie can kiss Emi after actually talking to him on their hookup date.
>Says probably do stuff with neglected characters in last incremental
>Actually just writes more gay stuff with Jamie
Devious Mundanity
- Main: Caliburn can immediately set off for the Annex of Annihilation.
Just one item but a fairly hefty framework. Fans of the Equivalent Exchange segment in the Cypher storyline should be pleased.
Farmster Girl World
- First encounter with the Sharkhan is live
- Also fixed a ton of issues with the Bitch Beach exploration, should be working properly now.
- Was getting some weird error when loading but it didn't seem to affect anything, let me know if you get this as well.
Okay, so, for first update of the year, I do wanna talk about some things.
First is Farmster Girl World. If you're a bit surprised to see it update, yeah me too. I just felt like giving it another try, in part because I really wanted to do the Sharkhan, but as you may have noticed it just kind of went away for quite awhile despite me investing in it for a few months. Well, there's a reason.
First of all, I wanna say this isn't calling anyone out or ragging on anyone. I'm not blaming anyone or shaming anyone. This is a problem I'm not sure even has a solution.
The issue with Farmster Girl World became that the only engagement I seemed to be getting from it was bug reports. Lots and lots of bug reports. I would ask for help and get silence, I would ask for character feedback and get silence, but within minutes of posting a new build I would be deluged with bug reports telling me what was wrong with it. While I understand that bug reports are necessary to fix the game and get it running properly, and I do appreciate them so that I can, the emotional result was that I felt like people were only interested in playing it to tell me what I was getting wrong.
I know that's silly. And like I said I'm not saying it to blame anyone. I appreciate the help that was offered and I appreciate the feedback people did give. Just that it was becoming a very depressing experience to do a release day and feel like I had nothing to look forward to but bug reports, so I dropped it. At the end of the day, as I've always said, I'm a writer, not a programmer... I want people to engage with the story, the characters, and the kinks, and I felt the only place I was getting engagement on FGW was the code (and all of that negative). I may just need to get the fuck over it if I decide I'm going to continue.
Another thing I did want to discuss is that as you may have noticed, the last few months have been either feast or famine, with the last couple being closer to the latter. Some of it's probably been just distraction from various real-life events, but part of it's also some burnout. I haven't had anything like an actual vacation or real time to myself since February of last year and it's taking its toll on my ability to find inspiration and drive to work. (I know I had at least one trip in there but it was... not relaxing or restful or recharging at all, to say the least.) And I'm definitely sorry that it's resulted in lower output here.
Right now I'm not immediately going to make any big changes, but through January and early February I may supplement Devious updates with other stuff... lewd short stories that I've had ideas for but that don't really fit into any of the storylines that well, things like that. Depending on how things go, I may wind up putting the Patreon on pause at some point just to skip at least one payment and take some actual time off around when my usual late February trip happens. We'll see how things go.
Anyway, just wanted to let you know where things stand... I know I'm not always super communicative and it's not that I'm trying to keep anyone in the dark, it's just that I don't always know where things stand with me either, or I have to figure out how to say it, or whatever.
Thanks for sticking with me through the last year and we'll see if we can't get through 2022 as well.
