So this is going to be a long message and essentially explaining what happened with the game over the last few months. If you don't care/want to know the TL
R is I am working on Her Fall again.
The full story,
I was extremely burnt out from working all day everyday on the game so it was effecting my mental state as it was, then after losing the only patrons that I had that was a serious blow to my motivation. Combined with getting back to back to back poor reviews here on f95zone, and all the hate comments I was receiving on there. Then there was the whole thing with needing to sort through 24,000 audio clips and renaming them and editing them to make my own clips, then the fact that chapter 8 was already scripted to be the largest update to the game so far with over 2000 lines of dialogue hundreds of animations and over 10 different full scenes. The entire scope of it was very overwhelming. I was just like you know what fuck it. Why am I wasting my time on making something everyone seems to hate anyways. I then went on to drop the entire ren'py idea as a whole and just went back to playing PC games, I played around with Genshin and HSR private servers for a bit, and just hung out with friends a lot. After some of my friends kept asking why I haven't been working on Her Fall for the last few weeks, and seeing some actual nice comments on
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lately. I decided the least I can do is finish this game since that will allow me to move on to another game that a wider variety of players may be into so I hopefully get less hate comments. Since I already had the bulletpoint list for chapters 9 and 10 planned out, and had the entire script done for chapter 8 already, I decided to get back to work on it. I was debating slipping chapter 8 into 2 updates so that I could get something out sooner but after looking at the script overall I can't find a good enough "Halfway" point to separate it into 2 releases. Currently I have all the renders and animations done for the first 300 lines of the script, There are 1000 lines of script. The bulletpoint of chapter 8 is
- Misaki's apartment, Misaki Akari and Rumi talk about going to a swingers club and get Ryou to agree to go by promising him they will find him a chick there.
- At the swingers club, After sitting down Mike (From Chapter 5) spots the group sitting down and comes over to say hi. Misaki did not tell Ryou about the night with Mike and Bob when she came clean to him about everything. Not knowing this Mike starts shit with Ryou. Ryou quickly gets pulled away from the situation by Rumi.
- Rumi talks to Ryou about picking up chicks and finds a girl to talk to for him.
- Misaki gets shitty with Mike, he mentions Bob is also there waiting in a VIP room, Akari decides they should go hang out with them.
- Ryou starts having a good time with the mysterious new girl and Rumi. When someone comes over and asks to join in.
- Misaki, Akari, Bob, and Mike all have a talk and Mike gets shit for his actions earlier.
They all decide they might as well have fun to.
- (This is where I am currently for getting Renders) Kishimoto has a talk with a new potential girl that needs her interview for joining The Circle,
Kishimoto learns he may be into chicks that like to be in control more than he thought he was.
Stuff happens... Obviously....
- We cut back to the Swingers Club and check in on Misaki's Group and Rumi's Group
Which is where the first true game changing choice takes place, Which I will be making sure to add a SAVE HERE kind of message so you can experience both routes. If Misaki Answers her phone Ryou joins the party with them. If she chooses not to there is a huge fight when the night is over which leads to Misaki and Ryou splitting up permanently.
- Both routes end the chapter in almost the same way with an orgy scene at The Circle with the a new girl joining in and getting her Debut like Misaki did in chapter 4.
I still need to do nearly all of the audio clips I was debating doing the audio clips as soon as I finished the Kishimoto section and release that as the halfway point. But I decided that wouldn't leave enough story for the second update. I have said before I am not a fan of doing updates like some games do, where each update is only a fuck load of dialogue and 1 or 2 at the max sex scenes. The way I see it let me know if I am wrong here but the idea of these games is to play it to get yourself off. So while the dialogue is good to get yourself in the mood you dont want to spend hours trying to get to the point that you have your idk how to put it... me time...climax....? IDK but you know what I mean. Which is why I try to keep the story decently interesting but also fast paced enough that you "Enjoy" Each update at least once.
Let me know what you think, should I wait to finish chapter 8 or where do you think is a good point to do a release?
Just an FYI for chapters 9 and 10 they will be released in MANY updates since the story is branching with chapter 8. I already am planning to switch to the "Normal" way of doing releases that I don't enjoy doing. But since I will literally need to make 2 full completely different chapters for each chapter my plan is to do releases for each bulletpoint. In a format like Chapter 9.1, Chapter 9.2 so on and so forth. Obviously when I do release chapter 8 I could also do that now too and release it in that same style if I see enough people asking for it I will do it. If I don't see people asking for it then I will operate under the assumption you want to keep things as they are and would rather wait for the update. Also Patrons will obviously get the updates 2 weeks early even If I don't have any patrons, it is the best way so that I can get a bit of content built up again to try to avoid the whole getting burnt out thing again.
