Hi everyone still around ^^'
Time flies by so quickly when you're occupied...
Anyway, the good news first: The biggest stress phase at work is behind me, and I have more time for game dev again.I'm also slowly getting back into the groove. Not as fast as I would've liked, but still.
The "mixed" or "depends on you" news:
...The game I'm currently working on is Heroic Harem Resort.
I don't want to bore you with another wall-of-text explanation, so here's the tl;dr:
I couldn't (and still can't) decide on what characters and story beats and kinks to include (or cut) in that other game
Simply doing everything, and just making some of it optional, would've led to another huge game that would take years to make and likely be too much for my brain; in terms of stuff still to flesh out, it would be more work than HHR
Cutting the more mainstream/popular content would make the game unpopular (duh), and likely result in backlash I don't have the energy to deal with for
Cutting the more niche kinks instead would make the result mostly just another slice-of-life harem game, which I currently don't have the motivation for
If I'm going to make a relatively vanilla harem game anyway, I'd rather continue HHR.
In addition, I always felt I'd like to complete at least Medea's and Rina & Koko's storylines, since they were the most fun to write for and I had several ideas for them.
That's how we arrived here, basically.I was banging my head against a wall with the other game, so I decided to go ahead with something I knew I'd enjoy making for now.
To be clear, I don't want to commit to a full resumption of HHR development yet.
But I plan to complete at least chapter 1, which is mostly about the resort staff (Myra, Medea, Rina&Koko, and one upcoming character).After that, I'll either take another break from HHR and make a (smaller, more kink-focused) other game, or I'll continue with HHR Ch2.If I do HHR Ch2, after that I'll either wrap HHR up and do the other game, or do the big HHR story twist and continue with HHR Ch3+finale.
Take things one step at a time, instead of looking for a specific result and burning myself out over how impossibly huge the task looks, basically.
Anyway, I can't give you a release date for the new update yet, but it'll be "soon".I started with UI improvements and some new Medea content, and I want at least 1 more Medea event, 2 Rina&Koko events, 1 Myra event and a bit more sandbox content before there's enough content for an update.
Stay tuned.