Update 55 (Patreon)

This week's image

This is one of the new night service pictures. I don't know if I need to say too much about it, but it should show up in the next alpha, if you're looking forward to this scene.

On holiday, but writing 

As I mentioned last week I'm on holiday right now, but trying to do a little bit of writing in my pen and paper notebook when I've got the time and inspiration. This may mean I'm a little hard to get in touch with because I won't always have wifi access, but I'll try to keep an eye on my email anyway. 

What I've actually worked on is some of the physical descriptions of the girls  (which take a fair bit of time ) and I've worked on developing a new short game idea that I'm quite fond of. I'll tell you more as it progresses.

Fall of Kimochi

As some of you will know already, several months back I uploaded my games to an exciting new platform for adult games distribution called Kimochi. I had high hopes going forward for the potential in this platform, although I had not quite worked out how to potentially incorporate it into my strategy yet beyond using it as a convenient means of file hosting and for promoting my games to new audiences.

Well, unfortunately the news this month has been that the Kimochi business model isn't sustainable and they're closing up shop. I'm sad for the people involved and it's also a shame for me, because it seems to close off this potentially significant opportunity. One of the big problems with creating and distributing adult games is just getting my work out to a wide audience - there's no real centralised marketplace for people to discover games and so I can't release and promote the game in any one place where I can expect it to have an impact.

Mostly my distribution strategy relies on forums like the Shark's Lagoon and the Legend of Krystal forum. While these places are great and have really active and strong communities it's not exactly ideal for me to have to drop in posts in 10 different venues and hope that people will keep talking about the game to bump the threads upward. :) I personally would really like there to be one big central adult games forum with all the functionality of the best forums out there, a strong community and moderators who didn't have to think about the interests of the people hosting the forum (which causes some issues in a few places) but that appears to be a pipe dream for now. I wish that Lewd Gamer would do something like this, but they don't seem to be too focused on forum building right now and when they last gave my work a bit of coverage it didn't seem to do very much. (Maybe it helped a bit, I don't know. I don't have access to good site analytics.)

Any thoughts or suggestions? Please leave them in the comments below!