Future Plans #13

Hey everyone!

Thank you once again for supporting the Patreon for another month (or if you're a new member, thank you so much for joining us and supporting the Patreon!)

Unfortunately I was plagued by migraines this month which seriously affected my ability to work, so I'm sorry to announce that the beta build update this month for Kierdan's route will only include 2 extra chapters instead of 4 as I had hoped for originally, so Chapters 7-8 will be added in a couple days. I'll try to push out an additional update early September to add Chapter 9 as well so you won't have to wait till end of the month to play more.

I was also hoping to write up a better post announcing the other future project I mentioned in the previous post, but since my head is still killing me, a super simple tiny reveal will have to do for now. Another "Future Plans" post for Ascendants preview will still come later today / tomorrow though, for those of you more interested in Ascendants.

Without further ado, a quick sneak peek of the next upcoming commercial project:

Genre / Style of Game

This project is technically an otome / BL romance visual novel: it will have a default sprite for MC, but you can choose between either a more feminine style of dress / presentation or a more masculine/gender-neutral one — or hide the sprite altogether if you don't want to see it, though MC's design would still show in CGs. You can change the default name and set pronouns for the MC as well. I'm trying my best to be as inclusive as possible in spite of the ancient Chinese setting 😭

As a rambly side note, I'm quite worried about whether this game will be well-received or not... I know the setting is rather niche, and Western otome audience may not very familiar with the xianxia/cultivation genre. But as someone who grew up on xianxia TV dramas and novels and is obsessed with the genre, this is the dream project I've waited forever to do — it was conceptualized all the way back in 2019, but I didn't dare invest money and time in this because I was sure it'd be a massive flop due to the niche setting. So I'm really excited to start working on this project soon, but only time will tell if this was a Very Poor Business Decision 😂

Schedule

The current plan is to work on Ascendants (episodic free release) and Fate of the Celestial Mirror (commercial one-off purchase) in parallel once Reanimation Scheme is completed. The latter will have a Kickstarter campaign in the future if my situation allows.

Language?!

In case you're wondering after seeing the Chinese subtitle text... yes, I'll finally be attempting to include a Chinese version of the game myself! I haven't decided whether I'll be writing the script in Chinese or English first... Perhaps both at the same time? 😂We'll see what flows more naturally when I start on the script in a few months.

Anyway, that's all for now, but I'll start showing more previews of the art next month for this project. Again, this won't affect Ascendants' posts -- those will still happen every month, so no worries if you're not interested in this xianxia project!

Thank you again for the support!