After-patch post, goal reached and plans

Hello, everyone! o(*^▽^*)o

Welcome newcomers. Please take a seat.

This is my standard after-patch post where I produce a wall of text instead of actual content...

So, first things first: thank you for playing and giving your feedback. And of course for supporting me! But I'll get back to it below.

Content and direction

So. I know some of you asked for a more "personal" approach when it comes to training Gloria, but as you may have noticed I'm more into the "public-cumdump" style for her. I've stated this long ago and really hope you were not misdirected and your hopes won't be suddenly crushed. The "personal" approach is a distant thing, that will possibly be implemented much further into the development. Right now the focus is on her becoming a...shameless woman. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Also. The feedback on both difficulty, bugs, and event suggestions is always welcome!

This is how I see people unsubbing. I don't see your nicknames. And when I don't see any posts for a week or two and then get this (in the middle of developing another patch too) - I'm simply confused.

I know the way I'm making this game is not democratic at all: basically, I do what I like and see if there are people who like the same. Still, just a reminder: I can't read your minds, but I love reading your feedback!

Plans for the next patch

I know it's kinda a joke at this point since I promised more girls back in May...

But the next patch is gonna be pure Gloria again.

I've created a solid foundation for one of her corruption phases and it'd be silly and counter-productive to leave it hanging like this and jump to something new.

On top of that, I'm finally at that point in the game where I can add a lot of kinky stuff and it'll fit right in, progress-wise. This is the point I thought of the most when I started the game. Not all that cutesy, lovey-dovey crap (＝⌒▽⌒＝)

I'm doing this somewhat backward this time: the next release date is going to be ~28 of December ($10 initial release).

With basics done, I feel like I'll be able to stop whenever I want and finalize whatever I was doing in a week. So, I'd like to give you something for a new-year. Also, the first half of January is always a busy time for me and almost nothing can be done due to various IRL chores.

I usually attach a fixed version of the current patch to this post, but I'll do so the next week. I completely forgot to update Sam vs Gloria weekend event in this patch and want to add something there before I dive into doing the next one. Also, one awesome person at F95 forum (btw, if you aren't coming from there, you might be interested, I have a topic right here with lots of discussions) offered to spell-check my outstanding grammar and I'd like to include his fixes as well. Thanks, bwa!

I have to sort something out IRL this weekend, so the work on the next patch will start in a few days. Hope I'll have something to post about in a week...

Goal reached!

That was a major one. And even though some might leave in November (since I announced the date in December already), I still feel like I should count it as reached.

Thanks all of you for your support. Here's a little backstory and a confession.

I've started making this game back in January and those goals I've set...They were more like a distant non-reachable dream. Since I had absolutely no experience in anything I was doing, the ultimate goal was to have some fun, practice this and that in a relaxed way, and maybe, in the best-case scenario, reach a $300/m milestone by the end of this year...

And then I reached that in ~June.

I blame the 0.2 patch, where I suddenly realized I can invent some pretty neat looking features and am not completely useless. （⌒▽⌒ゞ

After that, I've started taking this seriously and, instead of doing this in a relaxed way with delays to play games and such, went "full-time mode" as much as my IRL job allowed me to.

And thanks to corona it allowed that a  lot...

Yeah...If I knew back in January what a shitshow this year is gonna be...

Anyway, to not burden you with some complex explanation: what started as a fun side-project is slowly turning into my main source of income. I'm not gonna quit just yet though. Mainly because there are too many variables right now: what if Patreon suddenly decides to ban me or stop supporting NSFW stuff? What if PayPal does this? Or many other "ifs" connected to the way this indirect "paycheck" works.

To fully quit I need to get rid of my loan first, then have at least a year of savings. That's a responsible way to do this.

Plus, the job I currently have is not very stressful. My boss is cool and I have a lot of free time (most of the time, sometimes it can be pretty busy). Doesn't pay much, but at least I know I'll have food if shit gets bad. I'm used to being poor, relatively speaking.

The second part of "not quitting yet" is a bit tricky. As you may have noticed, I'm into many kinks. That's because I played, read, and watched a lot of porn of all kinds. And still do. The problem here: it's all porn now. Where before I switched to it from other things, now it's all I do. I don't think it's healthy in a long run, honestly. Burning out is an issue. Even if going out there and doing some job and meeting some people is not a very fun experience most of the time, it still has some positive effects on mental health. And boy am I motivated to work on the game when I return home sometimes!

So, to sum things up:

Not quitting right now, I need to be financially stable before I do,

The pace I'm working on the game is almost at its peak already,

All lewds, all day, every day is counter-productive!

Let's give it at least another year and a fully finished game before I finally switch. Call me old school, but I'm not jumping into the unknown without a parachute. 

Thanks for reading!

And for your support again.

Soon I'll go into the patrons-only mode again, so if you want news about the development - sub. See ya!