Hey all!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!
I hope you all had a great festive time, full of gifts and relaxation!
A big thank you to all supporters of this project big & small! Without you all helping out with your word of mouth & kind support this wouldn't be possible.
Before I get into the year plan, lets talk about what's coming this month!
Since I'll be doing a small build this month, the premise is quite simple... FOURSOMES!
There isn't much else to say about this one, but I hope everyone is excited for it as we reach closer to that full harem!
YEAR PLAN - CONTENT & THOUGHTS
Unfortunately not to start things off on a sad note, but it seems our growth was extremely minimal this year (practically non-existent if truth be told). And although I had great dreams and big aspirations for the project, unfortunately the reality has to take precedent.
Since I do not want to be working on this project forever, and at some point it deserves a full release I will likely have to scrap a lot of the plans I had for it. Although I enjoy working on it at some point the unfortunate truth has to be said that the idea I have presented it incredibly popular (at least in terms of the support needed to create the scope of ideas I had for it.)
With that in mind, the majority of the work going forward will be looking into finishing off the game in its most minimal state. There's still quite a bit to get through (especially for the main story!) so we won't be going anywhere for a while!
The first part of the year will involve finishing and implementing the outstanding Space Pimps NPCs. This is my top priority since the kind extreme supporters of the project deserve to see their creations into the game!
Scattered throughout will be various scenes of the crew (going to dedicate Summer to a sexy beach event for the crew!) as well as some lingerie scenes and a Christmas event too.
The latter part of the year will see the last part of our wonderful Princess Shuma as her progression will reach its climax. This will allow us to pave way for the next floating crew member to join (A patron vote will decide who it will be!) After that we will be looking at kicking off the next part of the main story, which will see us learn a lot more about the captain, as well as a few reappearing faces which we could see more intimately!
That said, this isn't necessarily set in stone. A part of me is tempted to ditch the beach event & christmas event in favour of more actual Main Story / Side story, so it isn't necessarily for the game to be considered complete. If this does change, I'll keep everyone up to date.
YEAR PLAN - MECHANICS
The obvious one here is the battle system which I have slowly been working on, but again not sure I'm completely satisfied with. I'll put it out there sometime soon to get feedback and see if its something people are interested in.
If not I can come up with something else. Basically I want to have a better feeling of the "passage of time" which I think this game really lacks. A lot of games have that where it feels like stuff happens that feels like time has progressed, making it mentally feel less rushed in terms of story / character progression. I have some alternative ideas, but for now I'll see how the combat system goes.
I want to bring in some small mini-games for the dates with characters. Shelly's cooking date is an example of this and I want to bring it in for each of the characters. (Catherine used to have that space shooter mini game too!) Lillith's VR boxing could be one, and I'm going to think of ideas for the others too as well as adding in more stuff outside of the regular progression, such as random events & more dialogue.
YEAR PLAN - MISC
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like we are going to hit our animation goals, so what we have now may be it for the full release. Unfortunately the scenes in this project cost more to animate because they haven't been specifically prepped for animation (like in Kingdom of Subversion). That said I want a bare minimum of having the crew voiced (at least with moans) by the end of the year, so hopefully we can make it there!
THANK YOU
Thank you all again. You all are some of the best fans a content creator could ask for! We may not have the biggest audience here, but we certainly have some of the most loyal and enthusiastic fans around! From the bottom of my heart, thank you for allowing me to even attempt something like this, it really means the world!