Progress Report 1/2 (Patreon)

Howdy! I’m still alive, and everything is going according to the plan, apart from delays, complications etc. So, more or less, as usual :)

In this week's news, I was able to stay away from liquid cheese, It took a lot of effort, but I did it. No one managed to poison me this time around (take that, liquid cheese!).

Another post+plus teaser will be out on holidays, because I’m still busy with the whole rework. I’ve received an interesting advice, that said “hey Mulan, you know, you can just talk to us, right? you don’t need to post teasers every time”, so that’s what I’m doing in this post.

Two more polls will be out tomorrow. I wanted to upload them alongside the next teaser post, but I haven’t decided on what I’m going to show yet.

Before starting this whole project I’ve had some experience and some necessary skills, I’ve played a lot of patreon H-games and thought to myself - “hey, not only do I want to do it, I can actually do it”, I thought I could be this “one man band”, I thought I can just flip a switch between being a writer, coder, painter and manage the financial part. But it’s proven to be not as easy, the more the game grows - the harder it gets for me to update it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not whining , I’m just sharing my personal experience from this whole ordeal, to my own surprise, the hardest part of our development so far - is my inability to “flip the switch”, I need to think about writing or drawing, I can’t just force myself to have a certain mindset.

That’s why, almost a year ago I’ve decided to hire Moana as my coder, and I was able to do so only because of your financial support. I’m grateful that I was fortunate enough to do so, because, honestly, without Moana this rework wouldn’t be possible at all. I have a lot of crazy ideas, and Moana is the one who makes them a reality. The rework has a lot of parts that require different skills, it can be boiled down to - writing, drawing and coding. I’m glad that I don’t have to code anymore, and I have to thank you for that.

Apart from that, I have a general script and a roadmap, so we’re not changing anything - we’re building on top of it. In this rework we want to optimise and standarterise everything, create various tools for us to use later on, and develop an overall versatile system to support every mental/physical change in any given situation. This is all meant to improve the game and quicken its development.

To us, this is where the game actually starts, everything you saw prior to this rework was chaotic and incomplete, almost like a “test”. Right now we have enough experience and feedback to move forward, we just lack time and “manpower”. If it were just what I’ve initially planed, it would have been out a long time ago (pink hair, bigger lips, another breast size and “dumb/bimbo” dialogues), but it’s no longer just that. It’s basically an entirely new game, built on top of an existing one - That’s the main issue and that’s why we’re so outrageously late.

As usual, thank you for your support and patience, I honestly hope that you’ll be able to see what we’re doing in the next update. Two more polls and a teaser will follow this week.