Dream Molder - Character Sketch Demo v0.1 and Poll Winner (Patreon)
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Alright, this is a bit later than I wanted it to be but due to me beeing quite busy these last few days I've barely had the time to give updates/answers on here.
First off, the new Dream Molder Demo is now up.
https://indarkwaters.com/games/dream-molder.html
While it does have a lot of new stuff, it's still far from done and the primary reason for anyone to play it would be all the main story paths, endings and decisions that were planned to be in the full game and some character sketches+music in all "normal scenes" to make reading through them easier.
Some of the character sketches are put together quite crudely or still missing entirely. They're really just ment to make visualizing of the final version easier and as a placeholder to get swapped out with the colored/animated versions later on.
Again, there are no hentai scenes yet, but those are in work for the next update after finishing the missing character sketches and therefor the Character Sketch Demo.
Roadmap and future of this Patreon
I actually made something similear to a roadmap to show what I'm working on and in which order over the next couple months.
https://indarkwaters.com/info.html
Showing this to you I'm also trying to gather some feedback on the matter.
While the release dates are nothing but guesses at this point, I can be pretty sure that the last release on the map (Dream Molder Part 1) won't be out before the estimated time.
My question to you now is if that's something worth waiting for.
Depending on the feedback to this I would like to switch the patreon back to monthly support (instead of charged posts) and completely focus on Dream Molder to finally get some "real", visible progress.
This would also mean however that I'm not going to post anything besides what's on the roadmap for a while. (Except for the unlikely case of getting updates out earlier and having free time to work on something else)
If you however think that it wouldn't be worth waiting for so long just to get the first part of the game, it would probably be smarter to keep Dream Molder in the background, do monthly animations and side projects instead.
This way I work on Dream Molder in small steps at a time and go for a release in the long run.
So if you have any feedback or ideas to this please let me know your thoughts on the matter.
This will probably decide in which direction this Patreon is going to go in the future and for everyone that isn't happy about the decision made in the end and wants to leave I'm thankful for your interest and support so far and I hope to see you around again at some point.
Lastly some more links if you're interested in playing the new Char Sketch Demo:
Download: Mediafire
Play Browser Version: Here
(Browser Version is really just for those of you that can't/don't want to download since it's going to be slow and buggy)
Changelog and additions made
Some more info on the demo and feedback needed to improve the game:
In-dark-waters-blog
Final results of the poll:
Keep Focus on Dream Molder: 65
Braixen: 50
Lucario Animation Loops: 30
Lopunny: 22
Zeraora: 22
Salazzle: 17
Luxray: 17
Mienshao: 17
Gardevoir: 15
Remake Dream Molder Demo: 12
Sneasel: 6