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Back in action! November Plans
🕑 Added 2023-11-01 05:00:05 +0000 UTCDevelopment is back! Here's the latest info and the plans for the coming months. Thank you all for your patience during my semi-break! :D
All prices listed are in USD.
Patreon Membership Tiers
All membership tiers have been fully restored to their original states and benefits.
- Particle Tier - $3 a month for access to last month's build. (More on this next)
- Reality Tier - $6 a month for access to the current monthly build.
- Clairvoyant Tier - $10 a month for beta builds as available & sneak peek content.
- Super Supporter - $20 a month for everything just cause you love the game.
Particle Tier Access for November
Since there's obviously no build from October for new content, Particle members will get the intro of Alexander's DLC content up to the first available choice.
Content For November
The goal is to have at minimum of one ending of Alexander's route completed by the end of the month. It is unlikely any CG art will be ready by then.
Alexander DLC Info
Alexander's DLC will have a small charge to help cover CG expenses. Currently I'm thinking around $5. As mentioned in a prior post, Patreon keys will work the same as Obsession.
For those who own Obsession via Steam, I'm going to try out Steam branches for access. I'll post instructions when the time comes.
For those who own Obsession via Itch, you'll have to download one or two files and manually insert them into Obsession's 'game' folder. It'll work the same as Brandon's route.
You must own Obsession to play Alexander's DLC. The base game will not be provided.
I'm estimating (no promises) that Alexander's route will be completed around February or March (accounting for holiday obligations).
I expect Alexander's route will have the same amount of content as other routes, at least 10 endings and 5 CGs and some amount of side content (TBD).
Alexander's release will require you to update to the latest version of Obsession to get the necessary GUI updates to access his route.
Future Obsession Development
Once Alexander's DLC is completed, that's all the content I have planned for Obsession. However, I'm not against adding more side stories or mini-stories, so if any you have any burning questions remaining, let me know! Any additional side content will be free.
Remembrance is a completely new world and new story. The mafia families, college, and the cafe are all gone!
Remembrance
Development for Remembrance will begin after Alexander's DLC is complete and released, but I have already been making a lot of preparations behind the scenes.
I have two new artists, but I would like to have a third if I can find another.
I think the partial voice acting is something I will pursue, the costs look reasonable. Finding the right voices is going to be the biggest challenge.
An editor is unlikely due to the expense.
When development for Remembrance begins, I'm going to have to do some up-front prep work, so there may be a delay on new content when that starts. I hope to have the music, voice, and new side character sprites ready in advance to lower the amount of rework I have to do.
There's also the content regarding 'Obsession-Abridged' (which I talked about in depth in a prior post). That is content I need to generate early in the process for new potential Patreon members to have context to understand the overarching story. I may be able to align things so that I'm working on this while the artists and voice actors produce their content.
Pace of Development
Because Obsession was a new experience and I was super excited and invested to see it succeed, I invested a ton of my daily life into it for eighteen months straight, nights and weekends with rare breaks. To the point some other things suffered and I teetered on the edge of burnout a few times and pushed myself hard.
No regrets, I did it because that's what I wanted to do. Obsession was my baby. XD No one could have stopped me, self included.
I still work a full-time job outside of this project, I gotta pay the bills like everyone else.
I am going to make an effort to pace myself better in the future. That is obviously going to mean Remembrance development is somewhat slower than Obsession, but I still fully intend to do monthly releases of new content as always.
Of course I say that after taking a month 'break' in which I worked on admin/planning/setup/advertising/brainstorming/and other stuff in prep for Remembrance for a lot of it... lol. I can get obsessive about my projects.
Anyway, I expect Remembrance will release sometime in 2025, but I'm not going to target anything more specific than that.
Next Up
For Alexander's DLC, I'll be targeting the end of the month for a new official Patreon build.
The GUI for Alexander's route is programmed and functional.
The intro for Alexander's route is written and just needs editing and programming. The first choice branch is still in the writing phase.
I hope to have a beta build for Clairvoyant tier members in a couple of weeks!
Time to get to work!!!
