For me this one, but mostly for the tabletop way of playing and the rng of the other two players that will ntr the MC, at least it will be a fresh air after a lot ofgames that goes for the "From A to B point" that released lately
Black Rune (maybe this year, anyone can hope)
The Japanese crowdfunding sites are in Japanese, which makes westerners averse to register and enter their payment info.
Eastern developers still believe in releasing a finished product, whereas western gaming as a whole has fully succumbed to the plague of absolutely everything being early access
But what about the feelings of the ugly bastard, are you showing this a bit?
It's on kimochi. Played it for a bit with mtool and lost. I like the concept, but the NTR happens quick and the game isn't easy.
On the topic of your game in particular, I must say that I don’t really understand why Heartsworn Abyss starts the way it does.The best NTR is a mix of MC/FMC perspectives.
In the past, I played an NTR that was male-only POV… it was bad. Scenes with minimal context, everything obscured, couldn’t even see the girl’s corruption. When you got to the end, the girl was already long gone. As we all know, the journey is as important as the destination in NTR, not seeing the girl’s corruption in real-time is absolutely a travesty.
Therefore, the problem is not female protagonists, but poor writing. There is no NTR if the bf/husband gets written out 5 minutes into the story. For that reason, although Acerola games are labeled NTR, they’re mostly corruption because you don’t interact with the husband in any meaningful way.
I enjoy playing as the heroine, and I also enjoy playing as the “hero,” so my VN focuses on both perspectives. I want to see how Akari falls to the ugly bastard, not just observe the aftermath.
The Japanese crowdfunding sites are in Japanese, which makes westerners averse to register and enter their payment info.
Updates aren’t immediately playable unless one knows Japanese, unless you're just there for the scenes.
Translators (human ones) often only translate games that are completed. Translating a WIP can be a waste of time when things are constantly changing
And sometimes supporters just like communicating with the dev.
Therefore, release is more important because it has better chances of being localized. Not every update has an H-scene, and people that want to play early are mostly looking for those (sadly).
For western games, all updates are playable upon release because they’re written in English. We don't need to wait for someone to translate or patch things. If it's out, it's out.
That being said, people do ask when things are going to release more than updates. It’s extremely hard to get subscribers. People see a few bad eggs earn tons of money for semi-annual updates and suddenly all developers are lumped in with the same label. Which makes it really hard for us devs who DO rely on crowdfunding to develop and finish our games.
Actually the graveyard of unfinished JP games here (and on ci-en) show that dev hell is very real for both cultures.
Heya!
In the game I'm making, you play from the male POV first, and at some point of the game it changes to the FMC and shows you everything that happened from her POV, but this is almost at the end of the game.
I see. Sakura Atelier games also follow your strategy! Male POV first, then male+female POV on second run. This works because their games usually end with FMC corrupted and MC being a cuck. I think it's great for linear stories with a mystery focus.
I've been hearing about Black Rune for years, and this game never gets off the ground. It looks good, even though it's FMC, it will have scenes set in the boyfriend's view, which is good, because FMC and NTR are not the same thing. But hey, I don't know when it will be released (or if it will be released)
For me, just Nuko Majin newest game. Dunno it's gonna released this year or not.
Yeah i just wanna be sure. Better safe than sorry.
