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One Year Journey: Reflections and Gratitude
🕑 Added 2024-04-23 12:25:26 +0000 UTCThe first thing I can say is thank you very much for your support all this time, from the beginning, not only paid members, but also those who like this game and gave me moral support to keep working.
And especially to the financial supporters, thanks from the deepest, because from all of you I was able to upgrade my GPU to a RTX 3090 and other supporting devices, not to mention the electricity costs and so on, which would be silly if I mention them one by one, lol.
This is now my only job. Yes, I quit my old job completely and decided to dive deeper into the world of VNs. ๐
Basically, I am grateful for all of this, and hopefully I will be granted the health to continue working every day, well, not really, sometimes I need a day off in a week.๐
Oh, I also want to thank my friend, Joegamerdude84, who helped me co-write the script for some episodes 2 and 3. We stopped working together by mutual agreement, but again, thanks and kudos to him. I wish him the best of luck with his work on his own VNs.โ
During this one-year journey, I received a lot of feedback, both positive and negative, so I'll continue to use it as a basis for improving this game.
Reflections on this feedback will be divided into the following points:
โ Why are there so many characters here?
As you know, the core of this story is about the succession of Frank's company, which I think would be lacking if Frank's circle wasn't surrounded by a lot of people, right? The same goes for Macy's circle. I apologize if anyone doesn't like that, but the big concept here is a harem game, so...
โ What about the Love Interests (Li) here, who are they?
I've actually discussed this in the future game collection, but I'll explain more clearly here:
The primary Love Interests here are:
Anna
Madison
Vinna
Angelina (Landlady)
Reyna
Macy
Jessie
The secondary Love Interests here are:
Elliana
Helen
Mel
Hanna
Diana
Naomi
Sara
Mona
Cho
Emy
Miri
โ What's my plan with this:
Basically, there will be a storyline that I hope you'll like, so every character will have their turn. However, I'm still going to focus on the primay love interests according to their storyline and timeline, and I'm going to gather them in places that suit their roles.
For example (this is not a spoiler, this won't actually happen), Angelina, Elliana, Vinna, and Mel will gather in a fashion shop to run the business, and the others will get their respective roles as well.
โ What will happen with the other girls:
Side girls or other characters: Sophie, Dr. Mary, and Penny seem to appear earlier than others, namely Sena and Chloe. I apologize to their fans (Sena dan Chloe); I admit that I gave them false hope by flirting with them on several occasions, this doesn't mean there won't be scenes with them in the future, but it can be said that it's not a priority. I was going to remove the flirting part and turn it into regular conversation, but it's already done, so I'll just leave it at that for now.
โ Steam release?
Yes, of course I'll try, but my plan is to finish at least one season first. Hopefully, with all your support and the sales from Steam, I'll finally have a proper workstation and other computers in the future, so I won't be working alone anymore. In particular, there will be dedicated animators and programmers who can help me work on this game and other games in the future, of course after I finish this game.
โ Forced scenes?
I was going to change the Cho and Emy scenes to optional, but, well, it's already done. It would take too long to change them, and it would break the whole system and make you start from scratch, which I'm sure you wouldn't want to do, right? So yeah, I'm planning to make almost everything optional except for Anna and Macy's scenes, because they're part of the basic plot. But don't worry, for the Harem lovers there will always be options to get everything. ๐
So, I'm thinking of fixing all this (and pause the billing while doing this) when I do the Steam release, which means Season 1 is done, and I think that will take at least a year. Because I feel like Season 2 is a continuation of the big plot that has already passed, so it could be just the ending or not, I haven't decided yet. There might still be a Season 3... but well, let's talk about that later.
That's at least what I can say as I reflect on this one year journey. Thanks again for your support all this time. I'll do my best to give you the best and to update you as soon as possible.
Stay awesome, and good day to you all, cheers.
Warm regards,
BlueInk
Comments
TheBlueInk
There will be at least 10 episodes. ๐
Didi
How many chapters S1 will have?
Vortex
thank you. I wish you good luck with this awesome VN :)
TheBlueInk
Yeah, this maybe it's a bit strange, I would say that the primary Li here is based on the "circle" hierarchy... Let me paint a clearer picture: if you don't reject Helen, then the next scenes will be closer to her, right? Meanwhile, even though Madison is a primary Li, the MC hasn't met her again yet (which will actually happen in this episode 6a). So, what I'm saying is that being a secondary Li doesn't necessarily mean that they're second to the primary Li, because it would be weird if the MC, upon meeting Madison again, immediately gets scenes with her... So I hope that should clear things up for you. ๐
Fuun
Oh Helen is not a main Li? Ngl that's kind of weird since she does have the vibe of one, i mean when i think of strong desire she's the first one that comes to my mind (not to mention she's probably the hottest Li), tbh i would love if both Anna's and MC entire "circles" were main Lis (cough cough Hanna and Cho too) but you are the boss i'm sure we'll get plenty of everyone. Anyway glad things are looking good for you, Best of luck :)
