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Before I start, let me mention that I'm not a native English speaker, and that's why this post might be all over the place, so bear with me.
I have so many things I want to address. Most of them are questions I was asked here and there. I hope I'll be able to address them all.
I'm the type of person who believes that honesty is the key to understanding your motives and goals. So I'm going to be fully transparent in the rest of this message.
First of all, let me address the elephant in the room.
Most, if not all of you, probably came from Kamo. Kamo was a team of two, me and Ink. I just decided to go solo for my own reasons. No drama is involved, so please don't look for it.
And since Ink was the one writing Kamo's posts, this one might feel different.
So TTrick, what the hell happened? Where were you for more than three months?
To explain it, first, I need to tell you a bit about myself.
I'm the type of guy that when I get invested in something, I'm all-in.
It can be both a good and a bad thing.
LSS is my passion. I feel like I'm fulfilling myself while working on it.
But while I was doing so, I neglected everything, especially my daytime job.
It's not like I wasn't working, but I just did what was asked of me and nothing more.
I didn't realize that at the time, I was happy with what I was doing and couldn't care less about anything else.
It was only during when covid hit hard was when I realized what might happen to me.
My good friend, who was also my co-worker, got fired and, until now, cannot find a job, different reasons but the same scenario.
I couldn't let this happen to me. I had to invest some time in my career.
I work as a front-end developer, and with all the love I have for LSS - since 2018, The game has made 6k$ profits (after splitting it by two).
And even though I appreciate all the support, it's not something I can rely on to pay the bills.
And FYI - all that money was invested in a new PC with 3090GTX I9 10900K, 128gb to help me get faster and a better quality renders.
So I had to take some time out and catch up to speed with the latest technology and be sure I would be able to find a job if I ever got fired or whatever.
Ok, so what's next?
Well, the game isn't new, and most of you have been around for a long time.
But things have changed, and now I'm going to have to rebuild everything.
LSS, currently is made with Unity, and for the reasons I mentioned previously, I had the idea of building a new infrastructure from scratch,
using react-native.
In that way, I could work on my programming skills + working on the game.
But while thinking about that approach, I feel like it's repeating the same mistake all over again. It will be like shooting myself in the foot.
So converting the game to Renpy seems like a wiser choice to do right now.
I don't know Python or Renpy, and I don't feel like investing time in learning it.
That's why I'll probably going to have to pay someone to convert it over for me.
Ok, enough technical stuff. What about the plot?
I don't know even where to start.
The routes in the game are both a good and a bad thing.
On the one hand, it is what makes the game special.
You can play the game many times and have a different experience, and that was my goal when I first started working on it.
On the other hand, right now, there are so many routes that it's not possible (for me) to release a full version with all the routes in a reasonable time. There is always someone who's gonna feel left out.
Whenever I'm thinking about refactoring the game and removing a route, I see someone in the comments anticipating that specific route that I don't want to let him down.
The routes I feel more comfortable with are the corruption\ntr routes,
and you can probably get that vibe while playing. And for example, the Ann love non-ntr route is the most complained route and only for the reason that It's just not my most comfortable zone.
There are some good people out there that offered to help. So I'm going to reach out to them again to see if they are still interested since I don't want to remove anything.
It seems like a win-win situation for everyone.
So what's going to happen now?
First, many things need to get sorted out before the next update, and I'm going to take it one step at a time.
- I need to finish designing this Patreon (tiers\goals\overview\cover etc...).
- Open a new discord server.
- Convert the game over to a new infrastructure.
If you read everything and reached this point, that means you really love the game (and me lol)
So if you wanna offer your help with anything (even the most minor thing), it can help a ton to get things up to speed.
The best way to contact me is via Discord (TTrick#1243)
If not, that's fine as well.
To be clear - I'm not going to charge anyone - not upfront and not at the end of the month until a new release will drop (I'll update you before).
While I'm working on all the mentioned things above, I'll try to please your time by uploading some renders I made in my free time.
Cheers,
TTrick.
