This is a POLL, so please vote below!
Hey folks,
Another reminder to please check out my landing page, including the frequently asked questions section as the majority of the questions I get asked via private messages every week are already answered here. So please read if you have a question and if it's not answered (or the answer isn't clear), then please feel free to send me a message. The landing page post can be found here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/37183736
Remember, every hour I spend answering questions that are already covered is an hour less I spend on game development, so please, please check it out.
Last week's dev update was mostly retrospective (talking about episode 25 and stuff that's already happened), so for this week, I want to talk about what's in store for 2026 and to get your feedback on what is of most interest to you over the coming weeks and months.
Over the past couple of weeks, we've been mostly working on Season 2 of the rework / re-do and I'll share some teasers in a few days. However, I'm also aware that some folks have zero interest in the re-do, and would prefer we spend our time on new material, so the purpose of this post is to get your inputs to help me plan out 2026 and to ensure that my priorities align with yours, so please ensure you get your votes into the poll below.
Last week's update was a bit of an essay, so I'm going to aim to make this one a little shorter. Obviously, I will go into further detail on each of the topics below in future dev updates, but for now, I'm aiming for top-level summary with the important part being that you vote. So, the topics on the agenda at the moment are:
Season 2:
When I say season 2, I am NOT referring to a continuation of the game AFTER episode 25. I am talking about the reworked (improved art) version of the original game, continuing on from where Season 1 left off. Season 1 was the upgraded version of the first ten episodes of the original game. Season 2 will take it from Episode 11 onwards... Not sure what episode we will finish at, but it will be of similar length to Season 1. Season 2 is a priority for me and I will definitely be working on it (have already started), but the purpose of this poll is to find out how much of a priority it is for you versus the other items below.
Walkthroughs:
Two different topics here, but for the purpose of the poll, I'm lumping them both together.
1) I need to complete the written walkthrough for the original game episode 1-25 (Current written walkthrough only goes as far as episode 22). And possibly enable and update the in-game walkthrough too.
2) I also need to add / enable an in-game walkthrough for Season 1.
Neither of these should take a huge amount of time, but I'd still like to know what your thoughts / priorities are regarding them.
WTHI Epilogues:
WTHI finished at episode 25, so I will not be writing story-driven new adventures to continue our MC's journey AFTER the events of episode 25, so when I say an "epilogue", I mean an extra stand-alone scene (or scenes) featuring our MC and some of the WTHI ladies.
The "movie" is over, so think of these as like bonus scenes. These could be scenes to close off the story for some of the ladies who didn't make it into episode 25 (The ladies I mentioned in last week's update), such as Theresa, Mabel, Porsche and the others... Or we take another visit to Parker Lake to catch up with Heaven and Elizabeth (Angel & Wanda's mother's).
The plan would be for these epilogues to fill in some gaps of items that happen during the time-skip that occurred at the end of episode 25 (i.e. between the weddings and the end-scene at the pool/house.).
Or the epilogue could also be a fantasy / "what if" scene (such as a Katie / Jenna / Monica combo - if rules permit.)
Lots of options here, so we could work on one, none or LOTS depending on patron interest. We could produce epilogues relatively quickly as they would be released as single (albeit quite large) scenes...
New Game:
I have lots of ideas (across different genres and tones) for new games, featuring a new MC and new adventures. I do have a couple of front-runners in my own head as to which one I would like to get started on next, but I'd obviously get inputs from you folks before deciding on exactly which one to tackle and how soon I should start. Again, I'm not going to go into specific details of each game idea in this post... I just want to keep the category broad for the poll, so you can let me know your priority /urgency for when you want to start wanting to see the first chapter of a new game versus the other items above in the WTHI universe. A new game will NOT have a similar dev cycle to WTHI... so updates should be smaller / more frequent.
Onto the vote...
You can choose more than one vote... So feel free to spread your priorities across more than one option in any ratio you want, i.e. if you vote for two different options, I'll count that as a half-vote for each. Or lump everything into a single option if that's your preference. Regardless of how you vote, your sum total will still be weighted as a single vote. So voting once (full vote on one option) will have as much influence as voting 3 times (1/3 of a vote spread over each of your 3 options.).
I will add multipliers depending on your patron tier (i.e. a $5 patron's vote will be worth 5X a $1 tier. A $10 patron's vote will be worth twice that of a $5 patron, etc.)
Please let me know what your preference is and let me know any questions in the comments section.
Thanks,
CG