The road to HoneySelect2 (Patreon)

Hello, thought I'd drop a update here. o(^_^)o

Current status:

The main priority for me now is PlayHome.

As some of you might've noticed, I released a hotfix for PlayHome yesterday including new BepInEx plugins, some of which I paid for the development of, massively pushing PlayHome up in maturity on the modding side... not quite AI-Shoujo, but moving along the right path. There's still more to come though... I am in talks with one modder trying to get a plugin ported to the game, and hope to have that done and dusted in time for HS2 release.

EmotionCreators has something of a similar story... I am also in talks with a modder about commissioning a mod for this game, and will update this pack when that's ready, provided things move along smoothly, though it's unlikely to be done and dusted by HS2 release.

I have a real soft spot for these two games =P

There's also the issue of server management post-mega disaster, but feel free to join my discord for updates on that front:  https://discord.gg/pSGZ4uz 

HoneySelect 2

Now then, HoneySelect2... a rather big one with a load of eyes on it, what are my thoughts about this game as we know it now?

Illusion seems to be promoting the AI Shoujo trial (the character maker thing from before AI Shoujo released) as the HoneySelect 2 Trial, that does give us some hints as to what we're looking at, especially combined with the announcement that HoneySelect 2 will use AI Shoujos studio and will be able to load the same scenes, no matter if you have AI Shoujo or HoneySelect 2...

For those that have been around the block for a bit... This sounds a lot like a expandalone from years gone by. Same engine, same assets etc.

If this is indeed what it sounds like, it will very likely be possible to stitch together the two games. Since the vast majority of the games seem to use the same identical assets, judging by the studio thing, this will allow users to have both games installed using the same assets.

I plan to do a HS2 only pack for starters while I'm looking further into it, but it may take me a bit to try to work out how to make AIS mods work with it, and possibly bothering a lot of modders for a spell, but watch this space (^_^)

Also, and I can't stress this enough:

HoneySelect 2 absolutely won't support HoneySelect mods. Like any of them, like at all.
Also, character cards are extremely unlikely to be loadable, and other AIS restrictions likely apply.

The space of time between now and the HS2 release

I now intend on going dark for a while and pour as much time as I can into getting as many of my packs updated as I can press in during this time, and possibly actually take some days off... not really done that in quite a time now.

That means that I'll not be obsessing so much about replying to DMs, and narrowing my focus. I will drop by the help channels in the IllusionSoft and Koikatsu discord servers when I have some time to spare, so please do utilize these help channels instead of my DMs till HS2 drops, as that massively helps me focus in on my packs :-)

Thank you all for your support as we gear up for yet another run here :-)