1/18 Status Update

I was planning on starting this update off saying I didn't have much to talk about, as it was pretty much the same as last week. But then I ended up writing a bunch of stuff, so let's get into it!

I've almost forged a throughline on the Naked Ambition content. Once I've got that pattern down I can start copying it and editing it for various scenarios. There's also a lot of scenes that I only need to write once, like the vote itself. So not great progress, but progress. My whole plan right now is that if I just keep slowly moving forward, eventually I'll cross the finish line. I know exactly where that finish line is, it's not moving at this point. I just have to get there. This is honestly a LOT better then when the game was in hiatus. During that time whenever I tried writing Naked Ambition content I would throw it out because I didn't like it. I like the stuff I'm writing now, it's just slow going.

It was another great week for Netoria Tactics 2 writing. You can play through almost the whole of Vashti Act 2's story now, minus some later sex scenes and some of the stuff at the end that varies very wildly based on route. I plan to finish that off by the end of the month and spend February doing mostly gameplay stuff. Making the levels actually functional, implementing a lot of skills, etc. The mid March target for the release of the whole Vashti Act 2 should be pretty easily to reach now. The only thing that might not be ready is grope art and sprites. The change in timelines messed that situation up. But if they're not ready in time I'll just release the rest of the content and patch that in later.

For today's preview art, let's look at some character portraits.

Shirin is an NPC in Act 2 who shows up for a few levels on Vasti's POV so I decided to give her a portrait. She's who Kamaal is having sex with in that silhouette last week. And the other one here is of Kamaal's father, who we see in several flashbacks. All the other characters in this batch are too spoilery to post.

I've also been contemplating making a new game. I don't really have time for it, but pre-production takes a long time so in theory by the time Naked Ambition is wrapping up I might be able to start something. Although I do have things like the SFW conversion of AtMoF, and the revamping of Futa Oasis that could fill that kind of slot as well. But new stuff is fun, it's new. My biggest inspiration for a new game lately has been Dispatch. It's a cool game, but I was disappointed how the actual gameplay segments didn't seem to impact the story much. It was still mostly just dialogue choices and such. I think there is some system where if you send Invisigirl to a lot of successful missions you get points that do something? IDK, I was on team Blonde Blazer because she was a strong woman who was nice to me.

Anyway, I think I could do the assigning people to missions as a driver of story outcomes concept pretty well. It's a very "Netoria" coded concept, so maybe I'll revive most of the design of my Netoria: Total Retail concept except I'd replace the pawn shop portion of the gameplay for more of a dispatch kind of thing. I think it could work. I could also make it Magical Girl Dispatch and reuse the AtMoF designs and characters, which has been something I'd like to do for a while. Would save a lot of time and money and I like them.

Or maybe I do the fabled TF Card Battle 2. I still have ideas for that, but it'd be so hard to execute on the art side. I did have an idea at one point of reusing art from previous games I've made as card art. Maybe that would be cool? Using AtMoF, Futa Oasis, Netoria, etc illustrations. Could be the also fabled crossover game I've thought about at times but never really came up with a great idea for.

I'll be honest, what ends up coming out on top here is probably going to come down to the production side over the design. I'm definitely not making more pixel art based games if I can help it, a huge headache to hire for. And anything with AtMoF characters is pretty restricted by Rad Lad doing all the art for that game and him being engaged with Netoria Tactics 2 for at least 2 more years. So we'll see. Generally stuff like this is at a standstill for a while until all of a sudden it isn't.

And lastly before I finish up this update, a picture of some people having sex.

Wow! Who could that be! So mysterious! Maybe I should have made it so these scenes don't have the names and faces labled on the dialogue so it actually is more of a mystery, but I think that it's so easy to know via context that would just be annoying.

That's all for this week. As always, thank you for your continued support.