Weekly preview - Nobuko's DP #2 (Patreon)
Content
tl;dr - I made this new scene not because it was requested, but because I had an idea for it. Still, I do listen to requests and feedback.
This week's image
As you can see, this is from a new scene coming up in April's release - a second Nobuko DP interactive scene.
This scene will require that you've seen the first one and that you wait at least a day since you've accessed it. (If it's an old save you'll still have to wait another day, even if you've already done so.)
I've got a couple of animations from the scene to show off too, but they'll come in a later preview.
Following my own inspiration
I've had a number of requests for this (I presume because people liked the first one) and while I don't really make scenes according to request but rather according to what ideas I have that seem strong for new content, I do at least listen to requests and try to accommodate things where I can.
Of course, as soon as I announced this I got people asking why I was making this scene and not some other scene that they wanted... this is the life of a dev.
As a rule there's some good advice that if readers (or players in this case) identify a problem they're almost always right and when they tell you the solution they're almost always wrong. That's because figuring out the balance of how to make a story and gameplay experience work is about a lot of subtle elements that are hard to see if you're not the creator of the game/book/movie/whatever.
So I do listen to people's responses, in fact I pay them a lot of attention, but sometimes I'll zig when you expect me to zag. If you say you want me to focus on your favourite character that already has a lot of content, I might decide that actually means I haven't done enough to make the other characters interesting yet and they're the ones who really need work.
In this case, though, I just thought this scene would work and I had a couple of picture ideas already in mind for it, so there was no need to over-think it.
Are you happy this new scene is coming up in v0.51? Do you have another scene you would have wanted instead? Let me know in the comments below!