WEEKLY POST - January 26th 2025 - I NEED YOUR INPUT!

Hey everybody!

Right now, I should be on the tail-end of a week-end family trip, but I still wanted to make a Weekly Post for you guys. Now this one is important because I wanna discuss some big choices!

Proof of Concept:

Initially, Dating Elena was only meant to be a short FMG game to test-out a couple of features. I was planing to work on it during the Summer and release it for free to the StrongGirls community in September, but I kept working on it, added Live2D animations, musics, VA, more features, polished UI...

The point is, I never really stopped to ask myself where this could end. Never had a solid game-plan. I think I should ask you guys about your preferences on the matter!

Option 1:

Option 1 is what I've already been doing. I'm currently working on the Prologue, then you go to the existing Chapter 1, you meet Elena, FMG scene, heated intercourse, she becomes Alex's girlfriend, boom.

With the Prologue, I'd like to release a Chapter 2 where you'd meet a new girl at the local gym. FMG + naughty scenes would be involved. More on that in a few weeks, I hope.
Ideally, I'd like for Chapter 2 to also include one or two 'one-on-one dates' with Elena.

Then later, i'd add a Chapter 3, which would also include a new girl at the library (FMG + naughty scenes) and ideally a few more 'one-on-one' dates with Elena.

I could keep the ball rolling like this for a while, who knows, right? The big thing is that Elena would be Alex's girlfriend, and any new girl added to the game would only ever be a third wheel, involved in a threesome scene with Elena. No cheating, no break-ups, no harem.

Option 2:

Option 2 is probably what I would've been doing had I thought all of this through 6+ months ago.
It would be a far more involved process as I would have to rewrite a lot of Chapter 1 and I would also have to rename the game.

I would finish-up the Prologue as I'm currently writing it, BUT at the end of the Prologue, you'd have the choice to go with either Elena, Girl 2 or Girl 3, and whoever you pick would become Alex's girlfriend.

Option 2 would focus more on the Romance aspect and would be more of a replayable thing, whereas Option 1 would be more of a Linear experience.

You don't like Elena and vibe more with Girl 2 or Girl 3? With Option 2, they could be Alex's girlfriend.

The game would become incredibly more complex then because it would imply a lot more options to mix and match events and characters.

Plan A:

Now, here's the other big conversation bit!
Plan A implies that I will keep the ball rolling with Dating Elena (or whatever it's renamed to with Option 2). I would go beyond a Chapter 3, I would keep adding dates, girls, locations, etc, until I feel like I've reached a limit.

I could even try to add an Intrigue to the game. For example, let's say Alex & Elena witness a murder in Chapter 2 and they try to solve it. Bit shoe-horned in, but eh, I still have time to figure it out. Whatever, you get the idea. Something that would bind all the dates, all the locations, all the scenes together, so that you have a purpose, that you're not just randomly from girl to girl and date to date. An intrigue would work far better with Option 1, though.

Plan B:

Plan B is where I end Dating Elena (or whatever it's renamed to with Option 2) when I feel like I've reached an end-point, likely Chapter 3. No crazy Intrigue, the game won't be spiralling on itself for too long.

Then I work on another game. I would like do make a DnD-inspired NSFW FMG visual novel. The difference is that, unlike with Dating Elena, I would have a solid game-plan from the start, no 'Proof of Concept' jank.

Either way, I will make that DnD-inspired visual novel. I'm already sitting on a lot of awesome ideas. Plan B would mean that I'd do it sooner than with Plan A. Waaaaay sooner.

THEN AGAIN maybe you guys will tell me "eh, we don't like DnD" in which case, I could do something else as my next game. I'll be listening!

Maybe Elena will appear again in a different game?

Time to vote:

Unless I'm severly messed up, you'll have polls coming up at the same time as this post, to help me decide between Option 1 & 2, and Plan A & B!

Disclaimer:

All of this, of course, depends entirely on this Patreon growing further. If I have to find another job on top of it to make ends-meet, I may have to change all of my plans and everything will be incredibly slower.
But if this Patreon keeps growing, if you stick with me, we're gonna accomplish great thing! I'll be able to do this full-time. And then I'll make more games! Just you guys and me! Triple-A is our enemy! Nobody can know! Gobbo Games, 100 years! GobboGames dot com! Gobbo Games forever! 100 years Gobbo Games! < burps >
imma sit down a bit...