Four Points from the Most Recent Poll

Hello all,

So, I asked the backers with voting rights to let me know what they thought the game needed going forward. I'm just going to talk a little today with the power of sexy number points about what the poll said, and how it will effect  development in the short term.

1. Sex Sells

The winner, unsurprisingly, was more CGs for the sex scenes. Since the first two funding goals are for more of these, it doesn't really change anything on the development front, it just reenforces the fact you are all a big bunch of pervs. :)

2. People do want more mechanics

I'm always a bit wary about adding more strategy elements, because part of me wonders if people just want to fap, but mechanics came second on the poll, so we'll continue working on what we had planned. These will continue to be strategy light (think more X-com base mechanics, and less Dwarf Fortress). A design doc with these on will be posted for backers later, and we'll be doing a new poll to see which ones people are most interested in. 

3. Slow and steady wins the race

Third up on the poll was getting the missing assets into place. Some people rightly suggested by taking the extra time to make the game look polished in its current state might bring in more backers due to a good first impression. So instead of pushing on to the next region, as I was planning, I'm going to spend a little time to finish overhauling the castle, add missing backgrounds, etc. Don't worry, we'll continue to add a good number of events with each release as we have been for the past few months, so the game will keep getting bigger that way. 

4. Less popular assets

Cinematic CGs and music both got zero votes, so these will continue to be very low priority. I'd like to add them someday as I think they do add to the atmosphere of the game, but they are on the backburner for now unless funding increases significantly. In the meantime, I've switched the goal at 4k from hiring Hikari to getting in another writer, as this would allow us to add more events per release, and spend more time working on the mechanics that the voters want.

So that should give you some idea of where things are heading in the near future. The release will be out this weekend to the backers, and I can reveal that since we are a little ahead of schedule it will include the first visit to the keep, and the introduction of Helayna. The continuation of that storyline (the capture of the keep) will follow in next's month release. Public release will be weekend of 11th March.