June 6 Update (Patreon)

This week I spent a bunch of time updating old areas. Some will have new events or quests, but for many of them I'm just filling out the world. I was always disappointed with RPGs where you advance the plot and no one says anything different. I plan to keep changing NPCs throughout the game. It's nothing critical, but hopefully that will give your actions some more weight. One of my goals with this game has always been that it won't just say, "You rule everything and have all the money and women" - I want players to feel like those things matter, insofar as anything fictional matters. I also created one of this version's major events and it got a little crazy. If you play once you'll only see one path, but there are a ton of different variations. I... may have gone overboard. There was a point where I found myself thinking, "I'm making pornography, what am I doing with a moral choice like this?" but I pressed on. All I tried to do was let players choose their fetish (I think many people will want things to go one way or the other), but that leads to complications. My goal is for there to be no guilt with either choice - they're not right or wrong, just choices based on your preferences. Have to admit, I got a little down this week. The boosted popularity of the game means enormously increased feedback, and it's easy to get lost in that kind of thing. Everybody wants something different and you have to hold on to your original vision of the project. I think I got through it okay, but it made it hard to write too many sex scenes. I poured all that writing time and effort into maps and events, though. We're on track to release in two weeks or so. This should be a broad update with lots to do, a ton of sex, and more choices than usual (because I'm setting up for something ^-^).