7/2 Status Update

Here we are in July, another month come and gone. Let's talk about what's coming up. July really needs to be dedicated mostly to getting At the Mountains of Friendship ready for its first public release. I don't want to push that back any further, if it slips past August all of my timelines are going to start getting pretty messed up. It really is starting to get pretty close though. I think with another month of solid work and attention I can get it done. I need to get the last few voice actors hired and recorded, finish up all the scenes, and do a lot of polishing. But it's getting very close which is both exciting and nerve-wracking. 

So since most of my time will be focused on that, that's a large part of why I decided to do the Naked Ambition release this month. Otherwise there really wouldn't be anything coming out. Well, I guess the Netoria end of story update is technically coming out in July, but in my mind that's still a June thing. And I'm pretty ready to start work on Naked Ambition again regardless. I still don't have a new artist, but I'll be handling that very soon.

I don't really have much to say about the Netoria update. It's coming out Friday and most of my attention is being spent on making sure all these variations work together and make some amount of sense. After that is the epilogues. The epilogues are probably going to take a fair amount of time. Partly because I need to work on other projects and partly because it's going to be a lot of work. These are very important to get right as they're essentially the conclusion of the story. The actual "end of story" update would be a pretty bad ending if things just stopped right there. The epilogues are needed to show where characters end up, the consequences of the various routes. This is by far the biggest branching of the entire game. Up until now every route has to follow the same main story beats but for the epilogues things are divided into 5 main outcomes that are very different from each other.

Also in Netoria news, I have an exciting announcement. The original artist is returning! For those who don't know, they left the project before the first release for serious personal reasons. Lots of people have asked for variations of character key art, like new outfits and such, and I've always said no because they would look off without the original artist. Well he's back and so is his art!

It's just sketches for now, but it's in the works. So Gwen's dancer and whore classes will have different. There's also another set of character art I commissioned...

You've seen male Carwyn, you've seen female Carwyn, but what about femboy Carwyn? This is for some expansion content I want to make. Most of the expansion content is centered around more gender bending stuff actually, it's the part of the game that's least explored as is. But once the game is done and I'm adding things on, it'll be easier to do stuff like this because I'll know exactly what it effects. So expect female Carwyn to be better integrated into events and things like that as well.

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