2018 By The Numbers

Hello everyone,

So it is now officially the new year, best wishes to you all. I'll be doing the news post, as well as the poll, next week, but for now I wanted to talk a little about 2018 now it has come and gone. We already talked about this before the year ended, but that was more in general terms about the progress we made over the last year, but today I wanted to talk about something a little less subjective - actual numbers.

Releases - While we moved to monthly releases this year, we did use January to plan for the swap over, so we had 11 releases this year. Of those 11 releases, all of them were on time, except one that was only a day late, which is something that, personally, I am really proud of. 

Words - It’d be too much work to figure out exactly how many words we added this year (Ren'py has a function, Lint, to count text, but it also counts code), but we added at least 20k per release, sometimes as much as 30k, so somewhere between 220k and 330k. Regardless, we have at least doubled the amount of words in the game if we use the lowest estimate.

Sex Scenes - We have added 50 new sex scenes. Unfortunately I didn't list them all on release notes, so I can't give a full breakdown by type at the moment, but I'd conservatively estimate at least 25 were straight Rowan scenes (probably a few more), with the other 25 falling into Futa / NTR / Gay / Yuri / Non-Rowan.

CGs -  67. I thought we had over 70, but I forgot we didn't do the January release. I still feel this is a good number for our level of funding though.

BGs - 3. This is quite low this year, because we have been using Sommy for a lot of other things, like the UI overhaul which took a few months, the Rastedel map tiles, and CGs. We have quite a few missing though, so I suspect next year this one will be a lot higher.

Sprites - 14. We've kept Keidi quite busy this year, with most of these either appearing in our ongoing Fey narrative, or our new Rastedel one.

So, in conclusion, I think we have done pretty well this year. I'm really happy with the progress we have made on the written front, by bringing Winter and Rein onboard, and I would be perfectly happy if, when I wrote this next year, we had added fifty sex scenes again. I am a bit less pleased about the art numbers, but that is a funding issue, and all I can do is to continue to work hard, and hope that situation improves so we can add even more.

I take development of this game very seriously; you people give me your money in good faith, so I treat it as I would treat any real career. I feel accountable to all of you, so I hope that when you look at these numbers, you feel satisfied in what your support has funded. I know I say it a lot, but I really couldn't do this without all of you, and I appreciate that. Here's to more sexy content than ever in 2019!