Thank you!
Hey everyone
Today's a special day! Exactly 2 years ago the first episode of Eruption Imminent was released . Time flies, doesn't it?
I wanted to take this special occasion to say thank you to you all, and to give a bit more insight to how this whole project even came to be
. And hey, maybe some of you might even be inspired to try your hand at developing an AVN? Wouldn't that be something?
Well... It all started in the year of the Goddess 2021, with a smutty wannabe writer sitting quarantined at home, slightly bored and slightly horny...
At the time I had exactly zero contact with any adult visual novels so far. My knowledge about so called "porn games" was antiquated at best, and I pretty much associated that genre with all these old 3-minute clicky flashgames from the late 2000s. The only other smutty games I played up to that point were a game called Corruption of Champions (a purely text-based RPG), and The Sims with many naughty mods installed.
So imagine my surprise when I learned of the vast sea of AVNs and other sexy games out there. I was like a little girl in a candy shop, full of wonder, and eagerly sampling and tasting everything
. But I also found out rather quickly that the vast majority of these games weren't really catering to my preferences and kinks. So, after a few weeks of intense sugar highs, I came to realize that there was no more sapphic candy left for me to try
.
But what I also realized, was that many of these AVNs had similar looking renders and the same game engine, which made me curious to try things out myself. So my dev journey began and I eagerly began watching tutorials and trying things out in DAZ Studio and the Ren'Py engine. And just to clarify, the only thing I had going for me at the time, was that I liked to write. I wasn't any prolific author by any means, and my creations weren't much more than cringy fan-fics, but... at least there was something there, right?
This couldn't be said for any other skills that could help me become an AVN dev, though. I've had exactly one photography class in my life, I didn't know how to code, I had never used Photoshop, no particularly useful computer skills, no noteworthy artistic talent, and no career in marketing, tech, modeling or porn. And I had never written anything longer than short stories, and most of them weren't even in English.
So... I was not particularly well equipped to start my grand career as a developer of the smutty arts.
But fortunately, after just one Sunday afternoon of Ren'Py and DAZ tutorials I had all I needed to start working on my masterpiece ! I immediately started crafting a dramatic and sexy and emotional and spectacular story. I modeled the most beautiful characters and created the most amazing renders. I was on my way to become the next big thing in the AVN space !
Unfortunately I realized two weeks later that everything I had done was actually crappy garbage . I learned so much in that short time that my current renders already looked 100 times better than my first ones. Oh, well. So I scrapped everything and started anew. And do you think I learned from my mistakes and decided to take on a smaller project better suited for my skill level? Nonsense! I of course created my next glorious project to be even more bombastic and magniloquent!
I think you can already guess where this is all going. For months I worked on projects only to eventually grow either tired of them, or realizing that they just weren't good enough for one reason or another. Eventually I started to switch things up. So some projects had a big focus on sex, some just barely deserved the 'A' in AVN. One or two played in a modern fantasy world, one was classic fantasy. Some had futanari in them, some didn't. One had a lovely MILF as a protagonist, one had some spooky horror elements in it, and one was even designed as a sandbox. Most of them never made it out the early writing and design phase, but I think I made renders for around 7 or 8 of these project ideas.
Well, in the end I didn't really believe that I would ever going to publish something anymore. So I took a bit of a break of it all and eventually got back to the roots to my earliest ideas and started working on a new take of it. This was in January 2023 and was the true beginning of Eruption Imminent. So, funnily enough EI is much closer to my first attempts at an AVN than to my later ones. At least when it comes to the core idea. The actual execution was miles apart, obviously .
I took some character models from earlier prototypes for EI and some locations as well and started working pretty much day and night on it. It was soon clear to me that this was gonna be it. Like, if I wouldn't be able to finish a first episode for this one, then it just wasn't meant to be. And luckily enough I never lost the flow and motivation for this one. Quite the opposite, I was super excited to publish it and see if other people would like it.
The first episode came out on May 22nd, 2023. The feedback was very positive and I gained my first supporters. And some of you are still here, since day one! Getting all these nice comments really gave me another surge of motivation and that's where the journey truly started.
A lot has happened in the last two years as well, four more episodes came out, with the sixth coming this summer... But I've already written so much more than I intended in this post, so I'm gonna stop here. I just really wanted to tell you all how grateful I am that you are all here and how much I appreciate your support, comments, critiques, discussions and patience. I honestly still feel humbled when I see how many fans this project has gathered by now . And I might even be able to do all this full-time at some point. Crazy! So... thank you all so much!❤
I also attached a pic of the lovely Jane, since she's probably one of the few girls you won't really see any sexy scenes in the game with. So I figured she'd make a nice model for a little bonus pic
. There's also a naughty variant for all supporters, 4K versions included. Check the post above this one.
TLDR: You are amazing! Thank you! ❤
