...there's never gonna BE a StH2. It doesn't matter WHY. It's just a fact at this point.
I won't say NEVER. I have a skeleton of the game. My challenge is the volume of renders and stories I've put into it. As it stands, I've got about roughly 400 usable renders done for it. The GUI is done. I DID have an inventory system done, but I'm not sure if I want to change that side of it. I paused the game while I consider whether I'm making it TOO complex, as I was trying to make an innovative "fight" system so you could battle random enemies (like you did with the serial killer in STH1). See, I implemented a questing system so you could do side quests of vanquish this that or the other which would open up side girls (like, go do some fishing will open up a water spirit girl).
Other problems I faced was I originally did a goblin camp (think" trashy drunken gypsies) and if you get along with them well enough they introduce you to their sister. Then I had problems with Patreon dictating the height of characters as goblins are obviously children... Sigh.
So, I dumped that idea.
I also had to dump the ghost girl.
But I still have a lot of the game intact.
I'm just considering turning back and making it "easier" to play.
The last thing which kind of knocked me for STH2, was I was planning it out as a Steam release so was doing every asset myself to avoid issues. It was also one reason I was trying to give it more "body" so it could be replayable and have more depth. Then the belly fell out of Steam and I got banned on Itch. So, like, how am I going to make anything out of this game?
The number of hours I spent on it was ridiculous and in pretty much one night the market was closed to me.
But... I didn't delete it. And do tinker with it now and then because I don't JUST make things for money. I do them for love of the making and genre. I actually LIKE what I do. I just wish it wasn't being judged as something it isn't.
Sorry to rant.
It's been a long year. Still. 2026 now.
Happy nude year, peeps.
