4/20 Status Update

Haha, funny number. Anyway. 1.3 of AtMoF came out yesterday and I have one more update planned for the game before I sunset it. This one is going to take a long time to get right as it's the meta progression systems update. Essentially as you play you will unlock points that can be used to upgrade the girls with things like new abilities, a skill tree, etc. So the more you play the better your girls will be which hopefully will make playing it over long periods of time more fun and engaging. It will also feature the last new girl, Turnip.

Turnip is the MCs attempt at making a human itself. Pretty good job I think, got the whole sack of goo thing down pat. Turnip already has a little cameo in the game already as the character the leader portrait turns into if the current leader becomes unavailable. I'm not sure exactly how I'll handle releasing new girls publicly once the updates stop. I'll probably just let people have Turnip and Aliana free after a month or so.

The current focus of development is still the first Netoria Tactics expansion route. It's coming along pretty well I think. Still not all that close to ready but it's getting there. Art production is going well with about half of the new scene art done.

This is from the first time Carwyn has sex with Vivian and Gwen walks in on them. It's a cave Carwyn, I don't know how you expected to be sneaky, sound echos everywhere in those.

The last preview today is for Netoria Tactics 2. Pre-production is still ongoing, don't expect the game anytime soon. There's a lot of stuff that needs to get done like the character art, character sprites, map art, etc. etc. I'll probably be able to release a little preview not too long from now, but that's it. Speaking of character art...

Here's art for the main girl the two male characters are fighting over. Going with the folk history cucks theme that Gwenivier started, she's named Shahrazad for now. This is an example of the two classes she can become early in the game. If you're playing as her POV, she'll be an assassin. If you're playing another, she'll be a slinger. I didn't mean slingshot, but some feedback to the artist will work that out. Every character will have two classes like this at the start. Later in the game there will be even more variety as classes become based on what routes you're on.

I also want to talk about my vacation. I've been getting a little burnt out lately and need to slow down. With my increasing budget over the years I probably scaled up too much to be honest. Sure I can pay for more art and such, but there's still only one of me to put it all together. So my goal for the near future of Apollo Seven Games is to scale back. The end of new content for AtMoF is the biggest part of that. But it might end up needing to go past that, we'll see. I don't know if I can really do something of that scale again. Instead of having AtMoF level main projects and Netoria Tactics level side projects, it might need to be Netoria Tactics level main projects and small Twine game level side projects.

But in the immediate moment, yeah I need a month to recharge and clear my head. From the beginning I had the feeling that if AtMoF wasn't a big hit the label would probably go under. Well it didn't, hooray! But it also still had consequences. My hope is that taking May off will let me recharge my creative batteries. The poll about pausing the Patreon is in favor of letting it run, but not enough that I really feel comfortable doing that. I think not pausing it would hamper the vacation feel, since I'll still be "on the clock". I haven't made my final decision yet though.

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