First a little teaser, this time for all patrons. We know what is going on there, don't we?
And now we can sum up what we have. The story of Tasha (IAP) is getting closer to an end. There will be 1.0 maybe 1.1 as a final version. I got a lot of feedback during last months. Some improvement could be made but honestly, I don't see any point in reworking anything more. I don't think people are much interested to replay something that they saw already, it's better to focus on new stuff.
The games will have different endings depending on different "routes". So there is still some hot stuff to come.
We didn't manage to attract more patrons, so on average we have around 90 each month. I would guess that there are more people who like the game but they will never become patrons. Partly, because of the piracy. I still didn't get why people are so eager to share. I understand when they are making profit of it, but simply because of altruism... It makes sense in the beginning to promote the game but ... anyway it is long discussion.
Another thing is the amount of new games. Right now, I think every day something new shows up. There are good projects but there are a lot of shit as well. However, it isn't up to me to judge as taking in amount overall amount of support, the story of Tasha is somewhere at the bottom of popularity.
We were talking with Abi to start something new for quite a while already. But mostly we focused on IAP. We even started to do something but ... never get enough time to finish it. New project takes time. Especially first build as, an environment, characters has to be made first. And it takes a lot of time. But finally it is time. I'll make an announcement in upcoming days. So you can see characters. And some time after a first build will be released. No worries we still going to give you 0.9 somewhere at the end of the April anyway. So it is like a bonus.
New game is going to be visual novel. No grind and no sandbox design. Enough of this. I think right now there are plenty of games with sandbox and insane amount of grind. I want rather spend more time or story than those elements. And I am sure people just got tired of it. IAP suffers from it as well. So, not this time. I can't give you any dates as usual
One thing to add that most likely the new game will be eng/rus. Though, it is still debatable. One thing for certain, the characters are hot, be sure about that. And it will be a better approach to the story.
Last thing. Let me guess you may have a question why begin a new game without finish the current one? It is time. I had good time with IAP but there it is time to move forward. Of course, we will focus mostly on finish IAP first.
from Alex
