ALISHIA
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The update is coming tommorow
🕑 Added 2022-08-13 13:50:09 +0000 UTCOr 14th of August exactly for all patrons above and including $5 (or a "Monk" tier).
The update will contain around 130 new images, plus a lot of small changes here and there and a few mechanics to help players in the world. Like achievements and notifications.
It may look small but it is a big foundation for me to fill the game with content.
But about the elephant in the room. Yes, this update took me 2 years. Yes, there is no excuse for that. Some months I wasn't able to work, some months I was unmotivated to do anything knowing I've already missed my deadline. There is nothing I can do but to release this update finally. It won't live to the expectation of 2 years worth of wait but I must not care or this will happen again.
How I will ensure the same thing won't happen again? For the past months I was really reflecting on why it's so hard for me to meet a deadline whenever I put one, and I think I finally came out with a solution to the problem. Starting next update I won't be pushing them to be finished thus lengthening the development time.
I will just be releasing them on a basis of "fuck it, it was 2 months since last update so whatever is done I will release to the public". Even if it's only a few short scenes or some parts are clearly unfinished. This way you will most certainly know that the work is going, you will get a steady stream of content. It will also help me tremendously in a long run as I won't get demotivated and scared to work knowing that it's already been half a year and "I've only done so little, I need more time" which always fucks me up mentally.
I think this way of doing things will ensure that both my mental health is stable, and the game may actually have more content too without depression spirals that make me unable to work for months.
I've also left some things undone for the next update, like a scene with Nina in nun's costume is not in this update. But it will come in next one. This helped me to not overextend again.
But to wrap things up.
I already have a concrete plan for the next few updates. That's a first. I just hope that the next half a year will be demonstative of my work ethic and pipeline change and I'll be able to restore trust of some of you.
Next update, or 0.5, will have a deadline of the mid of November.
The public release of 0.4 will come 13 days after the release for patrons.
Thank you for being here, and don't donate if you don't think my words are not to trust. You can always pirate my game, just saying.
Again, thank you. I'll try to answer whatever I can on Patreon from now on but if you want a direct line to me please visit my discord server. I'm much more active there, than here.
Comments
Dark Hours
It is very good game take your time for the Updates bro And thank you for creating this
soddl
mid of November. :(
astinad
Agreed^ ! Smaller updates more frequently where not much has changed is great, don't put pressure on yourself and have fun! These things happen iteratively so people shouldn't expect things to be perfect or done either!
