[Important Poll] April and May Plans: Here’s What’s Up.

Hey-hey our beWildernaut fans, howdy and how are y’all? *Phew*. It’s been a long week, and sadly a quiet one from us too, with each and every day hoping to be the day we could spring forth with a release to be our big post… But it’s time we face up to the reality that it’s not going the way we want it. So here we are, a post to laid out some notice, and more importantly, get y’all community’s input on what the plan should be from here. Let’s get knee deep then.

So, the big thing we’re all aware of and waiting for, we’re still without a release. For all that upbeat talk we had about “maybe it’ll be early this time”, and “at least it’ll be last weekend, at the late end of our window” etc, etc… we’re still not there. Why? Well, that’s both a good question, and ultimately not what the focus should be, which is how to move forward, don’t you think?

Suffice it to say, the delay has come because of “new and improved personal problems” ™, hitting us on both sides of the team at once and with terrible timing. We can tell you all about them, but we guess we’ll leave that to Discord and whoever really cares that deep, fans there know we like to talk and keep things open, but it’s best not to clog things up here on the page right now. Besides, a lot of the root cause comes from private issues with people not even affiliated with our work or team, so it’s not right to go telling things like that anyway.

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So, what’s up? Where are we at? As it stands, it seems we’re more behind than we thought with NTR, as much of last week was bogged down and progress was hard to eek out. The art department says it’ll still be until the weekend or there abouts until we’ve got the last done and ready. On the upside, we’re pushing ahead with mounting content and testing what we do have, so once the last CGs are ready, it’s only a matter of an hour or two, plus building and uploading, between then and published release. That’s something. However, this obviously means that in the remaining week of April, there’s no way we can carry off the admin to switch to AoH, spin up the pre-production, and make anything at all close to releasable… So we’re in back to another cycle of making up this month’s original main content in the month to come, like how April was spent on March’s NTR…. Sigh…

Bright Sides and Opportunities, then. Let’s look at it this way, instead. 

Since AoH will now be in May, we’ll bite the bullet and do it right rather than rushed, making a full version of it again as opposed to the half(ish) version it would have been in April. Since it’ll be at the end of May, we will likely have a week or so of April in hand after NTR’s hit, so what do we do with that time? That’s what we want to put to the community and see what you want. We currently have an open NTR Plays D&D art-story still to finish from our 200 supporter special, and by “finish” we mean make a dozen and some heavy sex and fantasy CGs for all backers to see, then tie up the story there quick. We can do that, we can so do that, if that’s what y’all want, and make it part of April’s content. Alternately, we can poor that time right back into AoH, give it 5ish+ weeks to the plan to make it instead of our usual 4ish, with the aim of making sure we’ve got the breathing room to be sure to hit an inside May release for AoH and get our feet planted right again, maybe, (we feel hesitant to say this but) maybe we can even get it a few days earlier than the last of May, and keep that breathing room going. Aim high, hope and try, right?

So then beWildernaut guys and gals, which to you honestly prefer? Let us know, and we’ll make it the plan. It’s a question of a surge shot of content now vs better scheduling for the future, and maybe even sooner game content again. Here are the options laid out:

NTR Plays D&D Pt3 – Do as we’ve said and add the final part to our still in progress 200 Backer special. You can see here what the last 2 parts have been like, so getting the last one will be about the same amount of content, dropped as soon as we can make it. It’ll be open to all Bold and above beWildernauts.

Move Straight to AoH v0.25 – Forget the bells and whistles, and get back into fundamentals. We move right into AoH with the extra week to make sure we have a full month plus some padding to get what will be the first release of the Mission #3 Endgame content, with an eye to break and avoid these rolling on cycles. If that means we get AoH done a little sooner, so be it, and great! We can worry about a few extra days of CG content if we get that far that fast, or if we’d be better at pulling forward the release that comes after too.

So those are the options for our time, which we leave up to you all to decide. Each has it’s advantages, but since it’s you fans who are the ones to reap or suffer the real benefits / pushbacks, it should be your voices that are heard out at the very least. We’ll leave this poll open until 6pm GMT on Sunday 24th, as we’ll be working on NTR’s release, plus post-release admin until about then regardless of results, so that should give everyone time to read, thing and vote.

So there we have it. For better or worse, that’s the situation. Now we make the best and the most of it from where we stand! However, before we go, we feel the need to say it out loud and acknowledge something now that the main chuck of important post is covered. If it matters to you at all…

… This month has really sucked. It has. More than most, and we know it. It started off great: We were on the way in rolling high, approaching a tasty release in the early days, people were looking forward to it so much, and we even let ourselves think it could be out early. The problems of the past were slowly but steadily improving too, which was a real smiler. Support was strong too, which is both a cherry on top and important in it’s own right… Then shit hit the fan and here we are: Behind, below, feeling shit about things and ourselves, and most of all how the fan experience has shaped up these last few weeks… What’s worst of all, most of the why behind it all is out of our hands, coming as either horrendous luck, timing and / or just plain shit we don’t want or need… The only upside is these new issues are in large part transitory. We’d like to say it’s not our fault, but somewhere down the chain of cause and effect, there’s of course things we could have done better in hindsight, so there’s responsibility on our part to own up to as well. So we do, or at least we try. That’s why we want to be sure to keep our minds focused on what actions we can take to make it better, especially on your end of the experience, so there we are. Please do let us know which option above is the best to you and yours.

Thanks for understanding folks, we love y’all and we love our beWilderverse. We want to see more of it as much as y’all, so let’s get our plans together to make that happen. Voting, ho! We’ll see you soon, either on the other side of release or on Discord whenever you feel like it. Until then…

Be all plans on deck and beWilder!

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TL;DR

If it matters to you as a fan, this post is about our next month’s plans. It’s a vote between more side-content to enjoy more from us sooner, or extra time dedicated to the next AoH release to help keep it on time. Either way, we’re expecting the next release (NTR v0.18) by this weekend coming.