Man. This sounds awesome. I never watched Harry Potter and the only thing I was near that franchise was the porn lol.
But perhaps you overthink things to much ? I mean the concept earlier sounded also awesome but you realised its to much for you alone to handle. Since its your "first" real game, try to make it rather simple but safe.
I mean your artwork will bring enough attention alone. All you need is for the people to come back. Sure, a good story with plot sounds awesome but its not that easy to do. Im pretty sure most of the people just want to see Main Character being naughty with Hermy. Be it corruption like stealing her away from Ron, or just your typical romance but with steamy sex scenes.
I think you're right, but there's a challenge - I need to make it interesting for myself, otherwise I just get bored and then everything goes to shit. Making pictures with pretty girls isn't a challenge for me at this point, and creating so much variations feels kinda tedious, although I'm convinced that it will make this project stand out in a big way.
Having a cool story on the other hand, makes me exited and motivates me to actually finish it. So I'm trying to find a sweet spot.
I've lost just a couple of weeks developing the previous idea, but this things happen in production all the time.
Now however I feel like I'm going in the right direction. From the asset standpoint I need to finish the character (13 poses are already done, 4 more to go), make about 4 or 5 backgrounds (Gryffindor Common room, Library, a corridor or two and maybe a Great hall), and a spanking scene.
Then there's dialogue and coding and I already know what types of scenes I need to have to get the story going.
It feels quite manageable but I've been wrong before lol
There's a part of me that wants to get it all done and to get paid, but then again I'm annoyed with the amount of half-assed games that's out there, and I want to make something different. I can always scale it down one more time if I feel like it's not working.
