Announcing Miss Castlewood!

I'm pleased to announce a new ongoing reward for all supporters around here! :D

Miss Castlewood is a dating sim Kal and I have been working on for awhile now starring the cast of This Romantic World. The story this time revolves around the girls competing in a swimsuit contest for a big cash prize and you play as the judge who will cast the deciding vote. On to the hypothetical questions I imagine you might be asking!

-Another visual novel? How is it different than the last one?

Miss CastleWood is less of a story-driven adventure and more of a small scale interactive companion piece to the comic. It's about getting to know the girls and finding out more about them than I could ever fit in the comic or even a character bio.

-Is it canon?

Nope! Not this time. I want every girl in the cast to be eligible for seduction here regardless of what they've got going on in the story. Which means that characters with boyfriends like Parker, Elianna, and Miss Holt will all be conveniently single and Bria has already had her baby. The characters will all still act true to their canonical selves but other than that, anything goes.

-Aren't you guys already working on a game?

About that! This Clandestine World is still in development. But the work on it is coming along very slowly and just isn't conducive to quarterly release builds like we did in the past with the TRW visual novel. I mean, it took us a year to make a ten minute demo. We haven't given up on it and are still making steady progress, but this could take a very long time and we want something we can offer more consistent updates for. Time may prove that an animated point and click adventure is too ambitious a project for a team of two people who both have tons of other obligations, but until then the work continues.

-The answer to a game taking a long time to make isn't to start a second game, jackass. It's actually more work, you see. If you hadn't ruined your brain with porn and video games it would be obvious you witless imbecile-

Whoa! Take it easy over there. This will be extra work, yes, but not as much as you might think. After working on the TRW game for five years, Kal and I are very efficient in that particular medium. The plan as of this writing is to add one new girl every quarter of the year. Each girl gets two unique illustrations, those being a sex scene and an ending if they win the contest. And I'm doing the endings in a more cartoony style that makes them faster to create. Two drawings and a script for one girl every few months isn't going to move the needle all that much on my current workload.

And I think that covers the big stuff! The first build featuring both Casey and Bria will be launching in October on the Game Dev tier and then to all other tiers a week later. It's been killing me to keep this all under wraps so I hope you're half as enthused as I am for the upcoming release.