Vote on the Future of Anthro Heat

Hey there folks! It's January - back on the grind. As stated before we'll be doing a poll on the direction to take anthro heat - basically to multiplayer or not to multiplayer.

This month we're aiming for workshop support, fixes, and QoL features. Next month or the one after I'd like to launch our cow character. Look forward to a preview of her soon!

Multiplayer?

Multiplayer is an ambitious goal. The idea would be to allow small instances of 2-4 people to have intimate moments for one another. It'd be like VRChat but with full collision (allowing you to actually touch your partner and not phase through), hole physics, fluid physics, NPCs, and all the other features of Anthro Heat. The use case is intended for people that already know each other and want a powerful sandbox to interact in.

As part of this, we would hopefully be able to make a system that allows existing VRChat avatars to be uploaded to the game with minimized setup. There would still certainly need to be some, but not nearly to the extend that existing modded characters require.

The Alternative

If we don't do multiplayer, we'll continue focusing on the core of the game - better NPC interactions. Likely things like idle animations, some autonomy, and QoL features. Maybe even characters that can move around the world. The idea would be to make them less "doll" like.

In both cases

Both of these features are extremely ambitious and will take at least a year of development time and represent the long term goals of the game. In either case the art team will continue to work on new characters and locations on the side, and bug fixes and smaller features will continue to be added.

Please vote the directions you'd like us to take Anthro Heat in! As usual this poll is not binding, but will greatly assist in us making a decision and it's unlikely we'll go against it. Thank you guys for your support!