Dev Diary #42: Plans

Hello everyone!

We think it's time to update you on some recent developments and what our plans are right now for the near future.

We have been in talks with a potential partner to co-develop the game and help us publish it with more exposure. I've recently talked about a game designer who now works with us - that's one part of that. After the first proper conferences, we are sure that it will be a great fit and that Sexy Exile will benefit greatly from it as they will help not only with perfecting the game itself, but also finishing and optimizing it by lending us professional help with the coding, too. No dictation involved, just a healthy, eye-to-eye cooperation.

So, we released a new Beta version of Date Mode last week and the feedback has been very positive, which makes us happy and proud. Still, while we are very pleased with the story and dialogue, we had a feeling that it wasn't quite there yet in terms of the gameplay itself.
We have always had certain goals for it, most of all it should be fun to play in itself and not just because of the dialogue. Also, we want it to be a little bit tactical and "puzzly" without being too punishing. Since this is only true every now and then in the current build, we extensively talked about it with our assisting game designer and came to the conclusion that we will be overhauling Date Mode to reflect these goals stronger and more consistently. We have made out problematic parts and elements and are already working on ideas to improve or replace them.

Therefore, a public Date Mode Demo is unfortunately postponed, since we only want to release builds that we are completely satisfied with and that actually represent what the finished game will be like. But now on to the good part: With the help of our partners, especially in terms of coding, we will be able to finish and release the whole game this year. Including the first 4 or 5 girls. And, while I don't want to make dangerous promises, It's not "end of the year" that we're going for.

This is a major step for us and the project and while it will require me (Zanzo) to entirely stop commissions for a few months and live off what I have, we are sure that it will be worth it and result in the best, biggest and "earliest" Sexy Exile possible. We want to thank you all again for the amazing and unbelieveably patient support even through the somewhat harder and slower past six months, because ultimately it helped make our partners believe in us and the project as a whole.

x
Zanzo & Cucu