Plans for Agrss (Patreon)
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I know I've been unclear about my plans for Agrss and even now I'm gonna be taking back things I said, but I this time I'm actually gonna commit to my decision.
Long explanation but this put things in context.
(Also posted in my other patreon.)
Explanation
When people take breaks, they usually come back fully motivated to work again, right?
For me, I didn't feel any different. In fact, at the last days of my break I just didn't feel any motivation to do anything, not even play games or whatnot.
Which is actually what I suspected would happen hence I've always refrained from taking long breaks. I mainly did so now to confirm that suspicion.
I think what that shows is I don't really have a strong burning desire to draw. Like when an artist gets inspired by an idea, they get a lot of motivation to dedicate all their time to make it a reality.
I'm not saying I'm not passionate about what I create though. My passion/motivation is just on a flat level rather than fluctuating whenever an artist gets inspired.
Honestly, I should have known that about myself.
It's obvious I've slowed down with the amount of work I've made for a pretty long time now. The best way I can explain that is I tried exploring my artistic side more, but ultimately found nothing. I didn't actually need to change anything.
What I mean about finding nothing is I don't actually have a specific thing I want to do. I'm equally passionate about fan lewds or original works. You could also say I just want to do them all.
This also means I'm equally dispassionate about any work I do. I don't think I'll have the capacity to just enslave myself to one project until it's fully complete, I would rather have multiple projects I can bounce around whenever I get tired of a specific one.
This does mean my progress would be slower compared to just focusing on one, but this is what I gotta do to keep myself content.
Plans
What this means for Agrss is I think there's been a bit of confusion on my side. Like I said, I want to do them all. I want to do different things, but that doesn't mean that different thing should be applied to Agrss.
The issue is that Agrss is a big undertaking that I felt stuck with it. It would have been smarter to take a full break from Agrss to work on other things until I felt satisfied and wanted to work on it again.
Which is practically still what happened as I've been mostly focusing on Crimr.
Maybe I just needed a break from Kamuo entirely too. Since even doing lewds in general, I felt tired of it. But I've been slowly getting back my feel for it this month so you don't have to worry about that.
I'm taking back my decision to add more gameplay in Agrss. It actually doesn't make sense as the best thing for me now is to just finish it asap.
I still want to remake visuals that I'm not happy with though.
Since I also don't want to keep you guys waiting for even longer, I would be resuming where I left off and work on the lewds for Pari and Deca. Once those 2 are done, I would go back to fully remake visuals before continuing to fully finish the project.
I would also still be working on renpy for now for a quicker turnaround, but I still want to redo the game in a better game engine in the future when polishing it.
Of course I would still be working on Crimr simultaneously too, so you can look forward to more updates for that.