Progress Report - July

It's a little early. There's still one more day in July after this for people that are always unsure if July has 31 days or not. This one will be big as there are a lot of potential questions to answer.

First off, thank you once again to everyone for continue to stick around for the release of the Extra Fluffy Edition of My Catgirl Maid. Thanks to those that picked it up as well! I hope it was a lot of fun to read those little what if scenarios.

There's a lot to cover so I'll start with each of the topics and my answer/thoughts on it.

1) What's next?

Resting for the most part. Spring and early summer were shit health wise for me (mostly weather related) so it is going to be nice to have the rest of the summer to enjoy and not worry about being behind if the migraines set in. I'm not one to sit on my hands for too long though so I'll be doing research and plotting the next project. Just at a slower rate. Plus I'm hoping that work will pick up again in the fall and I can get back to full time again. It's been a long time and it'd be nice to get the financial situation fixed again. Of course that will change how I make projects in the future but that's just figuring out a new schedule and habits. I'm glad it'll happen between projects and not, say, while I was trying to get Ch11 and Ch12 done for My Catgirl Maid. Messy shit when that happens during a key moment.

2) Next project?

I've given it some thought and I want to focus on the world from My Catgirl Maid, Katulinia, moving forward. My plan after My Catgirl Maid was to shift away from visual novels and get into RPGs. It's going to be weird to transfer from a romcom VN to a series of RPGs within the same world but, I'm hoping the familiarities and curiosity of Katulinia would be enough to help smooth the transition. I was never very good at sticking to a single genre anyhow as, even if I remained in VNs, the next idea would probably be something out of left field and not related to anything.

3) What are you going to do in Katulinia?

That deserves its own write up as this one would become way too long if I started talking about it.

4) Would you do another visual novel?

Most likely. My whole writing career has been in paperbacks, short stories and visual novels. It'll always be how I think of stories and structure things. I definitely need a break from visual novels though as spending the last 3 years dealing with the whole "this isn't a true visual novel" bullshit has really soured the format for me. Once a step away from it for a bit, I'll be fine. VNs remain a good format if you want to do character driven romances similar to My Catgirl Maid. But it would still just be novel first with minimal choices. If I was going to make an adventure game... I would just use RPG maker or Twine or literally anything else that would make a more interesting and engaging adventure game than a Renpy VN haha Being novels is what I like about VNs so that's how I'll always create them.

5) Will you continue to make adult content?

It's complicated but I still work in the industry so, technically... yeah. I work with Messy Studios on their project and have been for 2 years now. I will continue to work there as we finish the current project. If an artist/animator wanted to partner up with me to make a game, I'd hear what they have to say and probably sign up for it. I won't be doing adult content in my own projects because it is too damn expensive to make haha Trying to get the scenes to be the way I want is too expensive and I have to cut corners all the time and the content shrinks to the point it is a shadow of what it could be. In short, yes with other people taking the risk. No if I have to front the bill haha

6) The status of Patreon moving forward?

It's still my main social media area but yeah, the tiers are useless now. If you want to drop down to the lowest tier or just drop and follow the page. Go for it. I plan on selling games in the future as Patreon is more for making money off of free adult games anyhow. Not too many SFW games are given away for free with patreon support. I'll still use this as my main social media account because, let's be real, do you think Twitter's 140 character limit can handle me? haha If push comes to shove, I'll get a blogger.com account and just use twitter for links to my updates there. Oh, those that do remain a patreon, I'll still post some early maps and designs from the new project as I go so I hope those are enjoyable.

7) Changes to Discord?

Nah. That place will remain mostly the same. Probably just some channels being deleted as the patreon tier system falls out of place but that's it.

8) The status of The Rest of Our Lives

I will be removing that game moving forward. My plan is to focus on Katulinian stuff and Rest of Our Lives has now served its purpose: "I can complete games, even if they aren't well liked, so don't worry if you plan of supporting/following My Catgirl Maid. I won't abandon a project." haha With My Catgirl Maid being the better example moving forward, Rest of Our Lives can now retire. I have no set date on when it's being removed (Steam will probably take awhile to get rid of it anyhow) so don't worry if you still want a copy.

Hmm. I think this was all the major topics. I'm probably missing something though so let me know. Though, like I said in number 3, what I'm doing with the story universe will be in another write up so any questions about that will be answered there.

Thanks again for making it to the end of these. I'll get that Katulinia write up done eventually as I'm sure more than a few of you are curious as to what the shit will be happening there haha

Take care and I hope you get to enjoy some of the summer too.