New Monster Girl Poll - Results

The results are in!

Lamia has a 40% lead over 2nd place and Mimic/Arachne are the runner-ups.
Given the lead that Lamia has, I'm going to be rude and declare Lamia as the winner early. I'm working on the game's music right now, and it'd be a shame to draw more designs when it's very likely that Lamia will win again. It's year of the snake, after all.

That does mean I won't be working on Lamia right away because I had the poll planned to finish after I was done with other things (Imps are the only girl that seriously needs some non-ending work) ... It's also the case that I'm currently "away from office" and my work is a little below average. I return to the office in a month and then my productivity should shoot back above average, like when I was getting updates out consistently at the start of this year.

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I've got a section here to talk about polls again, this'll be a little off-topic and long-winded.

Arachne may have shown up in previous polls but the difficulty in learning to draw a completely different body made me put off a bug-type girl last poll. At the same time, I do prefer having polls with fewer options, because ...
Masahiro Sakura from Nintendo has a good explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP94K69NSVc
If I'm polling something, it should be like "These are what I think would be good additions to the game, which of these looks the best to you" rather than "These are all the monster-girls, pick one and I'll try and make it work". I still picked options I would like to add for that last poll but if I haven't even tried to draw some of those girls, I've no idea how it'd turn out. I might've tried drawing a scorpion girl and I'd be terrible at it and have no ideas for it ...

I still think polls are great. Once upon a time while running an event where a large group of people all watch anime together, I made everyone provide a list of suggestions then surveyed how many people had watched it and recommended it. Then I picked a few unwatched + recommended shows to do a final public vote on. It led to some niche choices that the more die-hard fans who had already watched all the popular anime really liked.
On the other hand, not everyone attending is super experienced and they might've appreciated some of the more popular choices. I sometimes want to watch something just so I can understand all the posts people are making about it.

At some point, then, I might add a girl without doing a poll. There are some monsters that just won't be able to win against the popular "Iru Nichijou" sort of monster-girls (slime / lamia / arachne / centaur) and Sphinx for example stands out as a more unusual choice that got more votes than the other less-popular choices. I still want popular girls, I just might want some more unique ones too.

Unless you count mimic. I'm not sure how I'd classify mimic. I may actually add some supporting monster-girls (like the ghost-fox) as traps or environment hazards since there are people asking for more traps. If you've read this far, maybe you should give your opinion on if a full player mimic transformation is a good idea or if I should sneak them in somewhere as a trap with an ending / some scenes but not a full transformation.
Arachne if they ever got in would naturally have some trapping going on. Existing monster-girls or the Lamia could as well.

There are other polls I've put out over the course of the game's development and I still think about the results when making decisions. I really should do more polls. Even if I don't always properly respect them. Yes, everybody voted that I should draw the monster-girls in the poll and now I've ended this poll before I've had the chance to draw them because Lamia was doing too well and I kinda want to make Lamia for year of the snake...
... Anyway, back to making music. Bye!!!