What's next!

Hey everyone!

I hope you’ve been enjoying your summer and that all’s well on your end!
On the Larky side of things, we’re still super excited about the full release of Cursed Covenant and have already started working on what’s next for LarkyLabs’ future.

First of all, welcome to everyone who recently joined us for Cursed Covenant's release! I hope you enjoyed the story, and that you’ll love what else we’ve been cooking over here! I’m so, so thankful for everyone who’s contacted us, commented, sent DMs, etc. You’ve given the entire team a huge morale boost, including me, as a creator. I’m beyond thankful. It’s literally keeping us all hyped and energized as we continue working on our projects.

Speaking of… here’s what you can expect from what’s next:

As we were gearing up to work on our next anime project (similar to Cursed Covenant), I went back on Patreon and looked through a couple of old scrapped projects to see if any of them felt like a good fit. And I found one in particular that’s very much in line with what we want to do next.
(The image below is from the old scrapped project, every character will change.)

Obviously, I’m changing the entire structure and plot, but the feeling and general lightness/playfulness of it was exactly what I needed after Cursed Covenant.

Here is our next anime title: Warrantide: Bounty of the broken line.

Here’s a few things I can tell you about the game, and how it differs from Cursed Covenant:

• There will be a defined MC whose hair, eyes, and skin color you can customize.

• She has a set name you can’t change: Vex.

• She’ll have two versions (not a spoiler, it’s part of the theme): she’s a goblin, and we’ll often see her goblin form. (Goblin colors will also be customizable at the start.)

• As a Larky custom, she’ll have three personality types: Friendly, Cunning, and Ruthless. She’ll also have a sharper, more defined personality than the Cursed Covenant MC (who was more of a blank slate). She swears. A lot. You will definitely see the goblin inside… (sometimes outside.)

  

  

• Two male, one female, and one NB love interest. Unlike Cursed Covenant, they’re fully defined and follow the structure of a traditional otome/amare game like Oathbreaker. Each will have both a human and fantasy look, except the human LI. (High Elf, Druid, Lich, Human)

• Static/non-animated CGs and sprites, but main NSFW scenes will be fully animated as usual. We also want to add more CGs in general, romantic or not, to give the story more visual life, similar to Cursed Covenant’s final chapter. It will have a comic book/manga feel.

  

• Lots of mini-games to advance the story. We’re bringing back small interactive elements from Ascension/Oathbreaker, not difficult, but immersive and story-enhancing!

  

  (We’re still at the end of the planning stage and creating art assets. This is all I can confirm right now, but I’ll keep Patreon updated regularly. The prologue will be released as soon as the assets are ready, I’m already halfway through writing it! Every asset you see now is subject to change, and some are stand-ins.)

Project 2: Voiceless Elegy

While shaping up our anime title, I also looked at my non-anime projects: Roaming Everdawn and Simulove. Both were in early planning. Roaming Everdawn has one chapter out, but I’ve changed it multiple times due to scope issues. Too many variations, too many assets required, unstable gameplay, etc. At its current stage, I’m honestly not happy with it at all. The LI is too similar to Imazz/Exon, and the story/theme requires a good knowledge of trade/economy, which, I won't lie, I don’t have. Pushing forward now would only waste time and effort on a story I can’t deliver properly.

From Cursed Covenant, I’ve learned I need to 100% believe in a project for it to be good.

So, I went back to my pile of scrapped works and found one that perfectly fits where LarkyLabs is heading. It’s completely different from our anime title, which means we can run them like two separate projects with two teams, updating both. Switching between two very different worlds will be fun for me too, so that’s a bonus!

Here’s our Victorian dark fantasy horror/mystery: Voiceless Elegy

• Victorian dark fantasy with heavy horror elements

• Static/non-animated regular CGs & animated NSFW CGs

• Animated semi-realistic sprites.

• Customizable, nameable MC (colors)

• 3 male, 2 female LIs

• Darker relationships and themes, with some content warnings (a bit heavier than Raelan’s route from Oathbreaker)

• Interactive mini-games for immersion, including a recurring oracle card mechanic

• MC is a medium, so… lots of scary things and plenty of “boo!” moments. I used to want to be a horror director, so I’m going all in on this!

These are the main titles we’ll be working on for a while! I hope at least one of them has caught your interest!

I’ll also be working on Paper Masks whenever I can’t be at my computer, so expect more of that too!

Let me know what you think and what you’re hoping to see in these titles. If there’s a feature you’d love, tell me and I’ll see what I can do.

Once again, thank you so much for all the love! Let’s keep having fun, and keep creating new worlds and new loves to explore.

See you soon, and big kisses! 💜
– R