Hazelnut Latte Act 2 is In Development! (Patreon)

Hello everyone! Welcome to my announcement that there is going to be more Hazelnut Latte action coming your way in the future!

I wanted to make a big post explaining the plan for the next act and also what we have going on.

So, for starters, thank you to everyone who supported me these last few months. It has been incredible to see my silly/horny idea actually get some attention and people who wanted to see it through. So honesty, thank you.

I have learned a lot since starting Hazelnut Latte. Not just in game development but also as a game publisher, which is what I am (for now). So as a publisher and as someone who has a Patreon about my game, I needed to learn some things the hard way.

People did not like how sparse the early builds were. 

Now, the reason for that is simple: I am not an illustrator. Every piece of art you see I had to pay for and commission from someone else. That means that coming out the gate with this game, I was in a financial deficit. Meaning I was losing money. But that is how things work. You spend money to make money. So the early builds came out with as little content as they did because I needed to start making some money back. Now that I have more of you here, I can work harder to make sure that when new content does drop, it is more than just a small conversation and one new piece of art.

So going forward I want to make sure when there is a new build, it has a fair amount of content. I still can't dedicate a whole lot of time to the game since I still work a full time managerial job during the day. But the more I make on this, the more time I can try to take off work and dedicate to making cool shit like this.

Speaking of time, as some of you may know, I also write for FoxiCube games. We have come to a mutual agreement to part ways on me writing his scripts for the time being. I am still very much involved in planning and developing concepts and characters with him. We are friends and we probably couldn't keep each other apart if we tried. But we both agreed that I needed to focus on my own stuff. So hopefully this means more time making Hazelnut Latte, Our Last Spring, and other ideas.

What can we expect from Act 2?

Act 2 means 2 femboys! As you can see in the art above, we have Hazel and a new femboy! He has two scenes in this act for you to unlock through your choices, so have fun with him!

As for it's scale and size, Act 1 was just under 8k words long. 

Act 2, at the moment, is at 19k words.

Which is a fucking lot of words. The game total is now around 27k which is almost the length of my lewd novel Is That Your Brother? (Which you should read if you haven't.)

Hazel has 6 lewd scenes, but you can't get them all in one playthrough. Bringing the total for the Act to 8 lewd scenes. Compare that to Act 1's 3 and yeah, it's a big boy.

The next Act's story revolves around the main character coming back to see Hazel a month later and asking him out to a date.

The lewd scenes are still illustrated by Kokman, who has been an absolute trooper. Honestly, this dude rocks. 

The sprites are done by an artist who wants to remain anonymous, but I appreciate them for their hard work!

When will Act 2 come out?

Great question! No clue. At the moment, we have all the sprites done, some of the backgrounds, and 2 of Hazel's lewd scenes illustrated, along with a special CG.

So I might release Act 2 in stages, each with a fair amount of lewd scenes so that you all get your money's worth. Now that I am finished writing Act 2 (for the most part) I am going to be switching gears to making Episode 2 of Our Last Spring. Which is way easier to do since I only have to rely on myself. Which isn't to say the artists on Hazelnut aren't reliable, it's just, I need to make money to pay them and I don't always have that money readily available. Gotta pay rent, ya know?

What is the future of Hazelnut Latte?

Act 3 is all planned out. There are 2 new characters being introduced with more choices and scenes. 

Act 3 will also have a new artist doing the sprites, but hopefully I can keep them onboard to do all the sprites going forward.

I do want to apologize for that, by the way. The sprite/artist changes was not something I ever really wanted but just sorta happened out of people dropping out randomly. 

But if everything works out, Act 4 is when things are going to start to get crazy. More gameplay, more choices, more stories, more... locations? ;)

Closing Statement

Thank you all for the support. It has given me so much drive and I've had a ton of fun working on these games. 

I hope everyone can stick around to help us grow this game to it's full potential! Though if you can't, I also understand <3

Anyway, I just wrote a bunch of lewd scenes so I'm gonna go deal with that, play some Destiny 2, and then get to work on the next episode of Our Last Spring.

Stay Rad Out There!