Pregnancy Length Poll/Discussion (Patreon)

This is something I've been meaning to discuss and consider with you guys. Even though 7 days is really short for a pregnancy term, and great for IRL pregnancy fetishes. In a game like this where it takes months of development and versions to get through each in-game day. Day 8 (the first possible day of birth, since pregnancy lasts for 7 days) is like, months and months of real time away. At this point in time I expect v0.06 to conclude Day 2... so that'd at the earliest, be some time in late February and that's only a single day of in-game pregnancy.

And in that time you'll keep on meeting new men and eventually even zombies and creatures that will be able to get Tiffany (and the other girls) pregnant. Let's say you get pregnant with Robert's child right at the start, you're going to have to pass through 7 more days of content, avoiding impregnation by other characters. You won't miss out on any scenes, but the fun of getting Tiffany knocked up is almost tarnished by how long you'll have to wait to get impregnated again. Clearly the most exciting part of impregnation content is the impregnation itself. I imagine people want to experience that as often as possible.

Now, in the future (past day 8) all of the necessary pregnancy stages art assets will have been completed over time, meaning that I will be able to add mechanics to allow you to sleep and skip days etc. But that's still a long time away. The reason I can't add that feature now, is because I'd need to make all of the different variations for different stages of pregnancy. Not just dialogue and combat cg's but all of the repeatable sex scenes need to have variations for bigger breasts, bellies, etc (we'll decide exactly what body changes in a different poll later). Now I could do it, but it would take a whole month or even longer to get all of that art done, instead of working on new content. It seems better to me, to work on it slowly, over time, each time with reach a new day, instead of needing hundreds of variations right away so sleeping at any time can work.

Also, in the game right now, it doesn't make logical sense for Tiffany to just be able to go to sleep for 7 days and then continue the story. Are Terry and the other's just going to sit around doing nothing? I prefer a story that has days to it, where different things happen on the days. It's not really a sandbox/simulation game where you just go out to work and come home, go on dates at your own leisure, etc. There might be something like that in the greater story outside of Ashton Lake, but right now, they're trapped in the walls with enemies everywhere, so timing is an important part of the story/game scenes.

Anyway, long story short. Do you think it is better if pregnancy length is made shorter? I am starting to think 3 day pregnancy cycles might be more ideal? It also means less overall stages of art to create. For example:

1st Day(after impregnation)-> Lactation starts. | 2nd Day -> Small baby bump, bigger breasts etc, | 3rd Day (birthday) -> Large baby bump, much bigger breasts, darker areola, etc.

Makes it nice and simple. instead of 7 days worth of art progression. It'd certainly be nice, and I'm fine doing it, (it'd probably be a physical change every second day or something) but it's more annoying to keep track of, and design gameplay around when any player can be at any stage with any girl...

As for plot issues concerning retconning the 7 days pregnancy thing, I'm fine retconning it, but there are also some fun ways we can make the change a part of the plot itself. But that's a discussion for another time

This is more of a discussion, to get an idea of what most people want. But a poll is the easiest way of collecting feedback so that's why there is a poll. The poll won't necessarily be the only deciding factor here, if people bring up good points in the comments. Let me know your thoughts on the matter. Impregnation is a big fetish in the game, so it feels kind of weird to have to wait so long to see the payoff when the majority of players will get their Tiffany's pregnant asap, and probably want to see her breed a lot.

Sorry for the big wall of text, and also, thanks for your support as always.

~ Jim