Moolah Milk Mondays Episode 15

Hello Peepos! 

Today I'm grateful for notching 30 days of exercise in a row without a miss and running 5km under 26 minutes for the first time. This may not be an achievement for some but for me, it's the most amazing thing ever. So hopefully long may it continue and I will be fit as a fiddle next year! 

On to more updates!

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• Part 2 Release

Okay I know you peeps are going crazy for part 2 so I will announce it to release on 26th which is around 1 week from now. Everyone will receive it this month! Rejoice! Also lower tiers will also get it within the month so don't worry. I will compress to 3-4 days and separate into 2 tiers. We will also revamp patreon tiers in season 2 so that in future when we have episodic release, the patron release structure will be clearer and more consistent. 

(If for whatever reason we delay for one or two days don't panic. It will be out this month. Just chill and wait for release announcement on patron!)

Okay now that we get the release dates out of the way, I shall update about some things on the game development. 

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• Feeling more confidence

I've actually been feeling quite disheartened and sorry for myself lately but recently I've browsed through some of my favorite games and now I feel much better! I'm not the only one facing hardships. 

As you guys know I'm a big fan of sandbox type games where you can move around and complete puzzles and quests. I actually haven't updated or played any of such games since I started working on DA and now going back through them I will tell you that we are not doing too bad at all. Many of the problems we face are plaguing these other games as well. One of my favorite games ever haven't even manage to update the next patch in more than a year! Two other games have developed for 4-5 years already and haven't progressed too much. This is disappointing as a fan as I was hoping after 2 years of not playing I will have so much to look forward to. 

But it's also encouraging as a developer. We are not far behind and there's real hope to turn things around when everything is set up. 

So don't feel to upset and complain guys! At least I haven't given up and really trying my best. I'm still confident it will turn good. 

•  Systems I want to port for next season

I'm trying to organize the system into a coherent one that can flow properly while being able to produce an episodic game in season 2. 

Many of the repeatable systems are very disorganized and also players will miss special events like certain toilet scenes at home and such. We want to avoid all these things in season 2, which means it takes massive planning to structure everything. 

Several things like the pregnancy system and bar toilet scenes I will carry over to season 2, which is why I needed to take some time before releasing. I don't want to go back and have to change too many things. 

For example if you look at Mia's pregnancy system, it's easy to release just Mia's questline and make you guys happy but I will need this system in future. A lot more goes into it. 

In the picture above you see Mia in the lab toilet. Now you see, in future you can actually add more pregnant ladies into the toilet. Mia's quest purpose is to introduce this pregnancy thing. So when a player plays the game, he will get excited to know you can unlock this feature with other girls when he continue to play the game. You see the four doors? The player can choose which girls he gets pregnant at any point in time (Also which girls go to toilet) so sometimes when you open the doors, you will encounter different girls at different points. 

Like the pregnant room for example. Try to imagine if you develop this game. You need to plan how many beds because you need to account for how many girls do you want to be able to put inside at one time. And also how the system works. Believe me you can try playing other games and you will see it's a challenge for other devs too. 

If something isn't right and you want to go back and change it, you have to redo many parts!

I don't want to railroad the player too much like a VN. Which means the player can choose how he want to play the game. When will he add which girls? And the girls will all be in different states. Sometimes she's fully pregnant, sometimes she's just fresh with small belly. Which combination of girls will be in there? 

What if there is a combination of girl A and girl B together? How will they react? 

How do you add special events like threesome scenes or group scenes? What if you choose certain love routes and the girl is jealous if she sees other girls in the room? How will the level up system work? 

The same goes for the house repeatable and also the bar systems. It's not so simple as just to release Mia story. 

Of course the ideal situation is I have completely planned everything from the start but it's my first game and I learn so many things I can do as I develop it.  Hopefully this pays off in next season. 

This is a simple renpy VN software, so it uses images, it's not a 3d system like unity. Even games that use the RGPM software, (I'm talking about one famous top game in particular with a full dev team - I think more experienced players know who I'm talking about. There's literally only one mega successful RGPM game.) It has a very streamlined progression.  Even then, they took the second game before coming up with a viral system that is the major success they are today. And if you look at the third game, for me personally it starts to get boring because its the same thing over and over again with different faces. But why change a viral system if it works right? I guess that's the dilemma of being successful as they are. You can't try new things anymore. 

And yes, many peeps will say to be successful you need to be simple and straightforward and streamlined. I understand that. But I do want to try more things because if not now then when? Better to try in the first game. I think after I complete DA, the next game will be so much more awesome as I know exactly what to do. Besides, it might just be fantastic because there will be so many things to do and explore. I think DA will have a huge fan base too because of that! 

It's really hard to explain in post but hopefully as the system develop further you guys will understand. Trust me the game will be more fun as it grows. New players are enjoying the game more and more. It's just we need to come up with a good episode pacing for repeating players to enjoy every update. Once we find the sweet spot we are good to go. I will push on next season and try my best. Hopefully by the end of DA, even if we don't make a top game, we can at least build a decent fan base that will propel the next game to be a success. I'm sure there are many players that will look forward to things I put out next. I think I really like doing this and hopefully it can turn into a promising career for years to come. Still many more things to learn like building a team and putting out consistent content and creating a fanbase with proper marketing and stuffs. 

I'm also chatting with other successful developers that guide me on hiring process and taking marketing courses to launch a good campaign on steam so it's pretty exciting for me. So much to look forward to and new goals to accomplish in the coming years. 

• Final thoughts

Anyways, I don't want to turn the post too long. I just want to update you guys on what I'm working on behind the scenes. It's quite a challenge but I've done a lot of planning and work so I don't want you guys to think its insurmountable. We are actually very close to achieving it and season 2 will be awesome when everything is online. 

Oh yeah also, just to update you guys. I'm planning to release 0.9 next month. This is the completion of the nun case. Again, I've made many scenes already for the nun quest, its very exciting because we can do many actions with the nuns and prepare the church to be another repeatable location in season 2! We also wrap up the case. 

[Just some *spoilers*, the player will unlock the church and it's another fun repeatable location where you can start to have visitors to the church and build a cult. So many people messaging me about corruption and depraved things. Just trust me, everything you guys dream of is coming. It's deviant anomalies not vanilla anomalies. I don't know why peepos are still doubting about depraved stuff.  Honestly based on requests I constantly receive, I KNOW it will be epic. It's the SAME stuff being requested all the time. If you already like what's in the game you will definitely enjoy what's to come that's all I can say. It's just introduction for now! Don't worry, you will see some more heavier stuff soon. We have many characters to corrupt so many things will come already. It's just the main characters will have to take more time to reach later stages so be patient. We want to develop a full game for players to play here so that they can progress until the end.]

And finally at the end of the year we will release the end of season 1. Which is 1.0. I've also completed the sage explosion scenes and some story stuff etc, so we will hopefully be on time. 

This I think will be the perfect ending. We will end up with all the main girls at the house, the first case complete and everything will be set up for next season. 

Very excited for next year. I'm really looking forward to see how next year goes. 

I've also structured it so that there can be more patreon interaction. For example, we can vote for the next girl that we can impregnate and the next costumes you can make the girls wear as well as the next lewd item you can buy. 

I'm 100% sure people will keep requesting certain girls to be pregnant or to bring to the dungeon etc etc. So voting will be very fun as patron will now be able to choose which girls get bonus content to include in each episode. 

Hopefully it will be a success and we will solve the problems we are facing in season 1. 

Ah yes, another thing about android! I know there is a significant amount of android players. I've added some new codes and I'm really not sure if they would port over well on android. For example, now you can hover over a girls boobs and the mouse icon changes and the hotspot will trigger boob actions. Will android face problems? I hope not and it's another issue I will look at. But for now, I'm just focused to finish season 1 and prepare for season 2 next year so please be patient guys. It will be sorted out in time, especially once I have the programmer on board next season. 

This is the last post before part 2 is out so see you guys soon after the update! 

Much love

Moolah Milk.