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Monday transparency report

Hey guys!  This week our illustrator lovely Victoria completed one of her big art tasks (a body reshade, and some changes to the small breasts requested by fans), and got partway through the second one.  All assets need to be hand-drawn, and these specific tasks are complex because they involve interactivity with multiple layers, expertly applied meshes and lots of fine tuning to make them look right.

I completed around 20 tasks this week.  The progress bars look like this:

I’ve been completing mostly boring but necessary things, like fixing dead links, and making sure that playing scenes in different orders doesn’t break the game.  (Spoiler alert: it did. 😩)  I’ve also been writing every day, patching in placeholder texts with things like actual UI alerts, and fixing various bugs and problems.  And also doing some planning and prep work for the next episode.

I did a couple of cool things like restored the options for the heroine to wear glasses in her day-to-day (set her Physique stat below 0 to unlock this), or have six-pack abs (if her Physique is maxed out).

I worked every day except yesterday (when I was feeling drained and burned out and unable to do good work, so I thought it’d be better if I took a day to rest).  I got straight back on it this morning.

I’m feeling kind of down because I wanted to get more tasks finished and I feel frustrated that everything takes so long.  But I work on it until I’m frazzled (almost) every day. 🫩 I’m doing my best.

Sorry for being low morale.  I’ll get an early night and get back on it tomorrow. 🦀❤️‍🔥

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Comments

Are you out of your mind??? take a break??? it has been over two years since anything new released?? or have you joined really recently???

Sammy J

How does he still have 1600+ people still paying $4700+ monthly to him>>>>WTF is wrong with everyone?

Sammy J

He just keeps posting these stupid rant reports without addressing the real questions from the people paying him How does he still have 1600+ people still paying $4700+ monthly to him>>>>WTF is wrong with everyone? It the crazy thing is he is getting $4700+ from Patreons daily for doing nothing. I mean look at the graph, nothing is even close to being completed on parts of the game that were already done. - Art lest 10% Done WHAAAAAAAAATTTT???? - Coding 50% afterrrrrrrr alllllll this time-----WTF???? - UX as like less than 25% - bro, yours is a text-based game, WTF UX do you even need???? - Writing is still less than 50% --- afterrrrrrrrr all this writing that you have been getting in............OMFG

Sammy J

It's been a scam for a LONG while now. Stay only if you have got money to throw away.

Irina

I'm on the $1 tier, mostly just because this whole thing facinates me at this point, and I kind of want to see how long this can stretch out. It would be one thing if this was all an obvious scam from the start, but the early years of this project were incredibly promising, and, legitimately had some of the best writing of any porn games I've seen. At this point though, it really is a scam, right? We can all accept that? He basically stopped or nominally stopped working on the thing, but he doesn't want to say that because why turn off the tap? And, hey, Crush, if it's not a scam, I ask again. Please give us a projected date when you see the whole thing being done (lets be generous and say 5 years from now, which is bonkers, because then the game will have been in development for almost 14 years), and then do a workback from that point with milestones. Publish that work back as part of one of these transparency reports. Then we can see if you are hitting it. These posts where you say "I did 20 tasks (I hoped to do more but I didn't)" are meaningless, and just give the impression of transparancey without actually being transparent in any way. Anyway, I say that above because I'm being generous, but, come on now. This is a scam at this point, even if it didn't start that way.

David Banner

Hi, I love this game, but more for the potential I see in it than for what's already finished. The storytelling is good, the game isn't simply erotic. It draws its tension from the story, not from particularly good pictures or illustrations. The existing visuals are used to stimulate and guide the imagination of what's being described. This creates a tension for what might come next. Unfortunately, this tension of what might happen next also prevents me from unsubscribing and perhaps checking back in a year. This means that in this case, i wait two years for something that doesn't come and then feel a bit cheated. Perhaps it would be a good idea to offer a free subscription. Then I wouldn't have to completely unsubscribe and hope that I'll find the account in my bookmarks again in a year. I wish you all the best and much success with the game development. maybe until sometime

Sylens

I'm truly sorry to have to write this message. But I think we've reached a point where we have to accept that we've been scammed, and it doesn't matter at all whether the game ever comes out or not. The way patrons are treated is unacceptable; it shows a massive lack of professionalism. We've been waiting for over two years for a game that never gets released, and we never see any real progress. You've been earning between $3,000 and $6,000 a month on average for years. And you haven't been able to release a demo where we can see the actual progress of what you're doing. In over two years, all we've had is a preview of the new version of the game. While this demo included some improvements, it doesn't even come close to justifying two years of work. Besides, it was a part of the story that's already in the latest version, and it was so short it didn't even reach the first sex scene. Nothing new in terms of story. The transparency reports are an absolute joke. Every week you say the same thing. There are current reports where you mention working on the same scenes you mentioned in reports from over a year ago. Developing an episodic game on Patreon implies an implicit agreement where the creator offers versions that allow patrons to see the actual development in exchange for monthly payments. You're not a game studio that can embark on a five-year development cycle and show nothing. Like I said, it doesn't matter anymore if the game ever gets released or not. The way you're managing the project is awful. Personally, I've only been paying my fees sporadically for a while now to see how things are progressing, and I always find the same thing... It's a shame because your game is truly my favorite NFSW game. And I think you have a lot of talent. But it's reached an absurd point. It's unforgivable that a Patreon game made through crowdfunding hasn't had a single new version released in over two years. I'm sorry, but I had to say it.

BoyOhBoy

Mostly tongue in cheek, but what does wearing glasses have to do with physique? Tennis players with glasses are Billie Jean King and Martina Navratova sure. Janik Sinner and Agassi as well but contacts are better. I think Ashe wore glasses but maybe not. Glasses can be worn as a disguise during a cleaning run.

gg

Sounds like a lot of good stuff happening. Also good that you took a break when you felt you needed it. Greetings and salutations. 🖖

Iseniell


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