Hello dear patrons, MANITU here!This month wasn't exactly a lot of posts here, I was pre-occupied with Game of Whores - my main project which I'm aiming to complete in 2026 so there was a lot of things coming together this month that I didn't even had enough time to make a post here, I apologies for that.BUT, because I am aiming to complete GoW this year, I'm slowly gathering references across endless NSFW folders on my PC for my next game with GoW team, and look what I have found another day...Today, I would like to talk to you about very beginning of what later became Driven Affairs...Back in 2019, I wanted to make a new project, something different to a medieval parody that I've been doing with Game of Whores. I had an idea, I wanted it to be a visual novel that takes place in NYC, the game that will be focused on every day life rather than a fantasy.I started looking for an artist, and first artist that I worked with was no other than Crisisbeat, back then he wasn't pre-occupied with his own projects yet and was happy to join what later would become Driven Affairs. However, it was already about the time when his personal projects started to take off and after around half a year into development we parted our ways.However, some work already been completed by Crisis, for example, this lovely character you see above, which later would become Stella's prototype. I didn't even had a chance to name her, her file title is "Company president". It's funny but even though I wasn't planning much to make her a dommy, she still has this vibe, don't you think?I got a batch of finished sprites from Crisis, we shake hands, parted ways and I started looking for a new artist, I reached out to Teku, an artist I've been admiring my whole life, he loved my idea for a game, I did a test build and the rest is history. Now, we're 9 chapters deep into development and game is loved and played by you, players 😁So, this is a little piece of development history for you today, let me know how do you like this proto design of Stella, I might share very first sprite of Stella done by Teku some other time 😉