Embercat

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Since some people have expressed interest in what I'll be doing next, I wanted to share a brief update on what I'm doing now. I'm aware this is the 'Lust Theory' page, so I intend to make this my **ONLY** post on my next steps and ongoing creative journey in VN space.

For the last few weeks, since being let go from Inceton, I have been doing everything in my power to stay creatively engaged in the AVN space. I have secured new work, writing with a more traditional gaming company to pay the bills. Still, I feel very strongly that THIS space is where I feel most at home and want to continue pursuing and putting my creative effort and energy into.

After attending to the most important matter of getting a new job, I've been spending as much spare time as I can commit to better learning the sides of AVN development I'd need to make my own games - putting a particular focus on learning coding through Renpy and rendering with Daz3d. I've also been making a business risk assessment, setting milestones, and creating a timeline to complete my first project and meet my savings goals. I desperately need to upgrade my equipment, and sourcing a computer capable of rendering at quality and speed is my top priority. I currently operate off a potato with wires attached to a monitor.

While I'm working toward that, I am focusing on learning the skills I'm lacking, exploring ways to build community and engage with the AVN sphere in other ways during this period, and, of course, writing and developing the plot for my story, Hero Worship Summer.

Hero Worship Summer is a project dear to my heart, a story series I wrote on Literotica under the pen name Wordforgedsoul before I got my job with Inceton.

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While on holiday, you save five girls from drowning in a cave at high tide, earning a small measure of fame, as well as undying thanks from the girls' families. A few years later, you receive a call from Robert, the father of one of the girls, inviting you to their summer lakehouse for the last summer break before the girls separate for college.

What you and Robert don't know is that the girls you rescued have their own plans to 'thank you' for saving their lives.

While you build the ultimate summer adventure with five eager girls wanting to reward you for your heroic deeds of the past, it doesn't take long to realise your girls have issues in the present that threaten their lives now just as much.

Will you be able to keep your summer liaisons secret? Will you be able to cut through the pleasure and fun to recognise the greater stakes at play for your unlikely summer harem? And will you settle for just the five girls throwing themselves at you, when it's clear others staying with you have taken an interest in you too?

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It's been a blast returning to this project and exploring it anew from a VN angle. It opens up the story in new, exciting ways, and I've loved seeing how adding choices and an interactive experience enrich it.

If anyone wants to check out what I'm doing and stay engaged in my developer journey, I hope you'll consider joining me. I'm currently creating a Patreon (it will likely be free for some time and will only serve to update people interested in the project and who want news). I'm also creating a Discord server, which I aim to use as a kind of developer's journal space for people to laugh at me as I meander my way through, but also where I can enthuse about my favourite AVN titles, leave reviews, and maybe engage in some long-form erotic request fiction for any who'd care to read it.

Very excited for this next step, and hoping my recent disappointments become nothing more than stepping stones on the path before me, leading to better places ahead.

If anyone reading this is interested in hearing more and wants to stay informed or chat, feel free to message me and either share your Discord handle or ask for mine. And if you aren't on Discord, you can always reach out and ask me to keep you informed when I have other socials/sites up and running, or when my Patreon is live.

For now, have a chuckle at my noob-level skills with the first EVER render I have managed to create with Daz3d. This is Savannah, she's an athlete with her eyes on Olympic glory. She's a lovely girl and definitely deserves a better artistic representation than what I can achieve with my abilities and my potato PC. But hopefully, I get better and do her justice eventually. :'D Savannah_-_First_Ever_Render.png

P.S. - As mentioned above, I recognise none of this has to do with Lust Theory, and I don't intend to hijack the conversation here with what I am doing. This will be my only post here about my next steps, and if it in any way violates some forum rule by not being on topic, I will understand if it needs to be taken down. I just wanted to share where I'm going next since some have asked.
 
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