Reality Check - Game Journal 27 (Patreon)

Hi there!

It's been quite the busy update this month so I wanted to fill you in on what's happening with the game.

As you may have read in previous posts I've been working on adding more RPG features for the game such as a new inventory system, the battle system, save and load system, a new custom dialog engine, as well as stats for the characters and more. Then a few more tickle scenes designs along with new characters.

The problem

As I work on the project every day from dawn 'till dusk I've come to realize the immense work I'm doing and the endless hours I'm dedicating to the game. And the more I work the more it seems evident that I may not finish this game EVER.

I've been pondering on what to do about that. There aren't enough Patrons to keep up the work and the few that support seem to leave. Weather because of money issues or that I take too long between each update, one or the other they leave. This really takes a toll on me 'cuz it feels like it's not good enough or I'm not good enough.

This is my 4th try at gaming and aside from the previous ones, this one seems to be going very well. But I'm concern about the amount of work that goes to this project and that maybe I'm TOO ambitious for the project. What I mean is, I'm considering of cutting the game.

Cutting down the project - The solution???

As I've mention before I wanted to add 10 RPG Levels, 10 Types of enemies , 10 Bosses and 50 Tickle Scenes, 5 scenes per boss. But I'm thinking of cutting to:

10 RPG Levels
10 Bosses
20 Tickle scenes

I know, I know, this sounds like I'm cheating you out of content. But it's really A LOT OF WORK and I'm worried I'm never going to finish and that's even worse than cutting the game down. But I think this is a more doable, much more reachable game that what I wanted to do.

I've also stopped working on the visual novel types of puppets and cut scenes to speed up the work.

This will also help me to focus more on creating quality content instead. Again I apologize to you for any inconvenience this presents to you and I'm aware that you may consider of leaving after this post but I have to be honest to you and to my self because I want to finish this game for you somewhere in the near future.

Thinking on a sequel - A ray of hope

I'm also thinking of dividing the game in to part 1 and part 2, this will help me cut the production time in half and have something playable and enjoyable sooner. There really is no need to have ALL the content in just ONE game. Maybe I can do like a DLC for the part two. I'm not sure.

So what do you think? Do you have questions of comments? please leave your feedback on this post and let me know what do you think about this matter.

As always thank you for your patients and support. This is Cody Wulfy signing out.