State of the Game update January 2024 (Patreon)

Welcome everyone. Gather around, gather around! We're going to talk about the state of the game as well as look back on 2023. There's lots to talk about.

Poll 1

First up, let's look at the community feedback. I put out two polls. The first was about how development progress from here on out. Do I focus on fleshing out the mechanics, the side content, polishing and creating an overall better game? Or shall I just make a B-line for the finish and only focus on the main story.

The results:

Now I must say that I'm quite happy with these results. I've grown very fond of Camp Mourning Wood over the development cycle and I want it to be as good as I can possibly make it. Luckily most of the community is with me!

That said, I don't want to ignore the other 20% either. I'm very happy to see that people are enjoying the main storyline and I promise to make some big steps in 2024 towards furthering it.

Poll 2

For my second poll I asked you all if you wanted to see more outfits put into the game. For those who played my previous games, you'll know how big of a fan I am of outfits, but I wanted to give the community the choice to weight in on it.

As you can see, a lot of people like the outfits, but don't see them as an essential part of the game. Which is totally fair and something I agree with. Where Paprika Trainer focused very heavily on outfits, CMW doesn't really seem to be the game for it.

That said, a lot of people said that they loved them (Whoo!). So here's what I'm planning. Maybe I'll drop one new outfit for every update for the €10+ tier. I've been hoping to add extra rewards to the higher tier supporters and this seems to be an excellent way of doing it.

Feedback is appreciated though. Let me know what you think.

New stuff

So what have we been working on? For those who saw the W.I.P. update you will have already seen the sketches, but I'm happy to report that most of these are already done now and we're already working on new stuff!

I also asked you guys how you felt about the fairy statues on Discord and I'm happy to hear that most of you seemed to really enjoy hunting for them. There will be (at least) two more in the next update. They're easy to implement and don't cost too many resources so they're a great little extra for the game.

(Had the censor this picture just in case... =/)

Besides that, I'm continuing Katey's social link, adding a new side quest and wrapping up Sam's glory-hole quest. All in all, lots of stuff on the agenda.

2023 Retrospective

All right, let's talk about the game in 2023. I hope I'm not the only one to think that 2023 was a great year for the game. We got two new main artists on board allowing for a lot more CGs to be made for each update.

Let's look at some changes...

1. Favors

Somewhere this year I decided to turn off the "Favors" system. Allowing you to recharge your camera and ask the girls to preform sexual favors for you. The reason behind this was that I feared having to do them in order to charge your camera would make the sex part of the game feel compulsory and maybe even boring.

After this I received feedback from people saying that just collecting the sexy photos wasn't enough and that people wanted to re-live the sex encounters with story. So I decided to turn the favors back on again.

I'm actually glad I did, because it opened the way for a lot of new CGs to be added to the game. That said, I will look at how you earn adult CGs in my future games and maybe do things differently the next time around. For now, this will do nicely.

2. New UI

The game's UI got a fresh new look to it! It's... still not exactly what I want though. I'm considering hiring a professional UI designer to go over the game and give me some tips. That said, it looks much better than before. ^^"

3. Potions

Such a fun idea for a game and yet so underutilized. I want to add a lot more effects to the sex scenes this year. Things like body writing, condoms, maybe alternative outfits. Just to spice things up a bit.

4. Main story

Probably one of my favorite moments this year was the continuation of the main story and the introduction of Isabella. I've been waiting to drop that twist since I started development and I feel like it worked out really well. It also added a bit more depth to El Presidente. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. =)

5. Mini games

2023 also introduced mini games. Admittingly, they're very simple ones. Breaking a rock, putting up a fence, sorting trash, etc. I wanted to give the player some simple tasks that didn't distract from the game too much, but introduced some fun new stuff to look at.

Future of Camp Mourning Wood

Having taken a break over the holidays was probably the best decision I could've made. I returned home with a bunch of fresh new ideas and it rekindled my motivation to work in the game.

Some of the things I want to focus on in 2024 include are:

• Expand upon the Camera battles
• Continuing the main story
• Android version
• Steam release (<- No plans yet, but... that'd be pretty fun. Right?)
• Adding Veronica and other social links
• Adding more content with Nurse Denise
• Getting all of the characters up to date with their favors / adult scenes
• Polishing to make the game look better for new players
• Adding the missing areas on the map.
• And so much more... (seriously so much more, I can't write it all down.)

A very special thank you

I feel like CMW really took off in a major way this year and it's all thanks to you guys. Your support allows me to keep adding and keep improving the game and really turn it into something special.

I guess most creators say this, and I think they all mean it, but your support really drives me and helps me stay excited. I have such a fun job and I'm excited every day to get up out of bed and work on the project.

For that, I wanted to thank you. Thank you for your trust, thank you for your patience and thank you for allowing me to write stupid jokes and make games with boobies in them. Take care everyone, I hope you'll have a wonderful 2024 and I will (as always) catch you in the next update.

-Ex