Happy holiday & 2021 year in review! (Patreon)

Hey all! How are you doing? I hope all of you are doing well :)

Without realizing it, 2021 has come to an end and 2022 is coming real soon! I know I say these words a lot, but I really have to say it again… time sure flies!

When I look back, it seems I just recently graduated from university and didn’t know which path to take. In fact, it’s been 3+ years since I took the path of full-time game developer! There have been many ups and downs during these past three years, but I can happily say that I don’t regret my decision! Well, at least not yet, I hope I can keep saying this many years in the future! ;D

Anyway, as a year-end routine, I’d like to review this year with you all and look back to what I’ve accomplished this year.

Banana Ranch Moocha beta release!

In September 2021, I managed to release Moocha’s route for Banana Ranch! Although this is just one route, it’s still a pretty huge milestone to me because a big part of the workload is on the general part and now that it's done, I can take things easier on my end. Now, the bigger part of the remaining to-do-list is on the CG art & writing for the individual route, which is a lot easier because there's a made 'template' already. Will still take time to finish all the art, though, so please be patient with me ;w; 

I hope to release at least two more love interest routes for Banana Ranch in 2022 :)

Another year of Seiyuu Danshi After Stories!

I've consistently released episodes after episodes for Seiyuu Danshi After Stories every month this year. With 90k words & almost 40 CG art, Seiyuu Danshi After Stories is the length of a whole new game at this point! xD

I hope to keep this up for at least another year. Maybe once Banana Ranch is completely finished, we can switch it up to Banana Ranch After Stories periodically in order to spice things up. What do you guys think?

Major progress on Baradise Escape!

Progress has been really fast on Baradise Escape end considering I’ve only decided to restart the project at the end of October to early November. The quick progress is mainly because the artist is currently working full-time for Meyaoi Games, so the art front is going strong!

New Baradise Escape visual with the main cast. For now, the romanceable number of guys is just 4, but I might increase it later on if the feedback’s good enough :)

Our main cast is the following (some details are subject to changes)

On top of the new characters made, a whopping number of 7CGs have also been completed in these few months! Some sneak peek…

I’ve also finished coding the basic gameplay system. Now, the challenge is to keep the game interesting enough by adding more content (more maps, romantic events, and more things to do in general)

Some planned gameplay features to be implemented are:

• Hunting mechanism
• Fishing system using spear (maybe a different mini game mechanism? We'll see)
• Simple battle system (current plan is just to make something similar to Stardew's where you just press action button near enemy to start attacking)
• Some features like foreplay mode & reversible roles will also definitely be implemented for this game as well!

Surviving 2021

Now, last but certainly not the least, I’m glad I managed to survive 2021 in good health, both physically and mentally. I haven’t left the house for almost 2 years now (except when I went out to get my vaccine), so it’s a miracle I can still stay sane. Well, probably because my work keeps my busy but happy lol xD

2022 target

And now, onto my target for 2022…

• Hope to release at least two more routes for Banana Ranch (Finn and…? I’ll release another poll to decide later on)
• Release playable demo for Baradise Escape! (Right now it’s already playable, but not so fun and still can’t meet Citali / Ragnar / Syris in game)
• Keep up with Seiyuu Danshi After Stories every month!
• Revamp my main Meyaoi website… Now that I’ve got several games in my belt (albeit unfinished), I want to make a proper website that lists all of my games released so far :)

Well, that's my to-do list for 2022. Fingers crossed that I can meet my goals (at least some of them would be nice ^^;)

...And that's it for Meyaoi Games's a year in review! Merry Christmas and have a very nice holiday! (I'll be having my mini holiday too ^^)

Closing in with unfinished picture of this month's Seiyuu Danshi After Stories feat. naughty Santa Haato still in his sketchy form. See you guys next year as well! :D