Serenity: Current state of the game (Patreon)

I'm happy to report that things are progressing very nicely. I am well into rendering and am about 3/4 done with the first 2 in-game days worth of content. Although, when playing through it, I feel like the first release should be longer so I think I may do another day, possibly 2 more before the first release.

Quality-wise, its no secret that I am new at this and consider it to be a learning experience for the next game I do. But I am loving how the renders are coming out, and I like my story and the plans I have for it going forward. I'm hoping you all will enjoy it also. I am still not ready to try animation scenes just yet, but that is something I definitely want to work on. So this one will be static images until someday in the future I can come back and update it with them.

As for the story, it has changed a bit since I posted about that. Here's the basics: MC's mom got cancer when he was 15. She fought for 5 years and finally died. During this time, MC did nothing but care for his mom. Didn't meet girls or date, didn't make many friends. His only friend is a girl who practically grew up with him, and she's in love with him... but he has (so far) not accepted her advances. Meanwhile, he learns that his Mom wrote a book for him. She started on it when she first got sick. He learns that if he reads the book, it will take him to another place that his Mom wrote for him to live out his fantasies for the rest of his life. She had a magical gift he never knew about. Later he'll learn a lot more things about his Mom's past, as well as the power he has stored deep within himself. Serenity island is a place full of mysteries he'll need to unlock in order to learn more about himself and his Mother's past. As well, he'll have to defend the girls from a dark presence that will make itself known. The MC will have to break through is shyness and "grow a pair"... become a man, protect his harem of girls, and fight to keep his new home. (So yeah, if you didn't catch it, this will be a 'harem' game.)

I have plans for many scenarios involving the girls and a few confrontations between themselves as well as with an unwelcome outsider, and other dangers. Choices won't affect the ending of this game, but mainly what is happening at a given moment. There may be an exception later, depending on how the writing goes, we'll see.

Expected first release? Damn, I really don't know. I can't gauge it accurately yet. At my current rate, I'm hoping to have a first release ready within the next 2 weeks or so for patrons. That doesn't account for any major story changes and re-renders that will inevitably come up. Re-renders take the longest, so I'm trying hard to get them right the first time around.

Anyway, stay tuned for more updates. I'll try to get into the habit of posting updates weekly to keep you guys informed. And again, thank you to my patrons and followers. I appreciate you all. :)