Okay, so let’s try this again, hopefully the new version has calmed you down a little (I sure feel less stressed out).
Some of you did a really good job at remaining calm and rational (better than me, that’s for sure), and some of you did not, but that’s okay.
Our game has physical transformations and it’s no secret that they are a tough thing to do. Adding things retroactively is less than ideal, which is why we had polls last year to determine how many changes the game will have overall.
Knowing the number of potential future changes, we can code all of our events with placeholder art and just replace in-game pictures when the time is right. While redrawing the art I’ve saved everything “layered” and drawn some things in advance.
To actually implement it all we will need a ton of time, and some of you would hate us for that, since people generally do not care about the backend. So we will recode events gradually with each update (our goal is to finish recoding them all by the end of this year).
This way, we will be able to develop the game quicker and we won’t need to break your saves with every update.
Another thing that should help with our workload is our new “grope system”, replacing something in it will automatically change all grope events and save us a ton of time. We’ve included it in this version and we will use it in the next update already.
Making a game with alternative art and text is tough, and I can already see comments like this one
It may take you 10-20 minutes, if you’ll skip all text. Because you’re only seeing half of our art and 1/3 of our text, not to mention branching options and backend. We can artificially extend your gameplay by adding grind - fetch quests, money, combat system, gathering quests etc. But we don’t want to do that.
That said, clearly you like my game and you want me to continue making it, even those of you who dislike me personally, that is why you’re still here in the first place.
I only ask for one thing of you, if you do like my game, but have no means nor desire to help me, for one reason or the other - at least don’t hurt.
P.S: I like to think that I’ve learned my lesson, so the next update will be out sooner.
That’s all I wanted to say, and this is my peace offering.
