Basically, this is the only game i'm expecting to check out before i stop tracking all the indie pornog game scene as a whole. Because it's annoying. I beleve getting a gunshot in the abdomen and full recovery would take less time ....
Honestly, some of those games cost more than AAA "non porn" games if you count the money annually. And while AAA games have strict deadlines and people are pushed to the limit to deliver on time, say like Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out on 26th of Oct, i am expecting to see it by 26th of October.
But with the laid back indie game approach, it literally takes years for people to finish something. If we'd take the effort in this community and put into something serious like spaceflights it would literally take hundreds of thousands of years.
I assume i will get a storm of criticism, but get this. I had a podcast in plans for several months, it was just words and mumbling with my pal until one day i just told "get ready, we're doing it today". Guess what, the output had surpassed our most modest expectations. I don't know, i believe the lack of real organization and pressure makes people soft sometimes.
Still hoping to see this getting released before 2019 hits the calendar.
I usually don’t answer to criticisms
1- I think it’s pointless
2- I am painfully aware how late my game is, and it is killing me.
But I just can’t let this one go… comparing me and other adult creator to AAA studios is ridiculous.
They have hundreds of employees working on their game ( I know, I use to work with these studios), we are 2. And 1 of us still have a day job in a really high-tech sector ( here’s a clue: it isn’t me
). Expecting the same level of “professionalism” is lunacy, and saying that we are asking prices close to the 70$-90$ the big studio games are asking for is laughable. Yes, if you keep paying months after month, but for most game out there, you could probably pay 5$ once in a while and get the full game. Beside. Even those AAA studios changes schedules all the time. AAA games get pushed back regularly.
Listen, we aren’t professional. In my opinion; most of adult game creators aren’t even indi game developers. We are amateurs, putting out here a product that no studio wants to be involved with, because no one else is doing it. We are lucky to have patrons that support us and allow us to make a living. But most of us barely make a living, let along being able to hire help. No, Library Story isn’t making 3K a month. As of today Laticia is making 1038$ a month… Who here could live out of 12k a year??? And that is not counting the fact that the number Patreon is putting on our pages is usually higher than reality, and of course they have yet to take their cut.
I do a little better around 18K a year. That isn’t much, but it was my choice to leave the studios environment to work at home, so I’m not complaining. I am grateful to be able to pay my rent doing my own projects. This is why I take time daily to interact with my followers, and why I am here addressing this issue.
Now, you guys know my situation. I don’t code. I tried to learn it again and again but my dyslexia made it impossible. Khronoss do the coding. I don’t pay Khronoss, he is giving me his time because he like my work and want it out here. He’s not my employee, he’s my partner… without him, there wouldn’t be any games... at all! He’s having a rough time at the moment. He came back briefly a few weeks back but he’s still pretty unreliable. The guy is in a really rough spot and depressed. I won’t push him. He got his job to put pres him: I’m there for him if he wants to talk. I offered him help, I offered him money. I offered to take the project of his hand, but he is still adamant that he want to finish the project by himself, I decided to respect his decision.
Is it frustrating? Yes it is… I’ve put a year and a half of work into this game. Hitting this wall without any idea when we’ll get over it is killing me. But I made my bed and until then; I’ll concentrate on projects I can release all by myself on a regular basis. In the end, my work free… all I’m asking for is the right to release it when I believe it’s ready.
Alx