The 'Tapphouse' Times: Oct 2022

HEELLLLLOOOOOOOOO EVERYONE! :D

It has been a while since we've really talked! Things have been rough, thanks for sticking around ^^

Here is your long overdue general update for the last few months!

Tapp

I'm well and covid free...though I still need to visit a doctor. This crap goes for your lungs and shortness of breath is freaky...so that's getting checked out later this October. I'd shoot for sooner but the universe went "nah". Health permitting I'll keep working, it's a little hard though between struggling to breathe properly some days.

Weird Djungeon Crawl

I'm glad to see everyone has been enjoying the game so far! This project was a massive spur of the moment decision and the reception has mostly been positive! General game design/dev stresses aside, this has mostly been fun. Coming up content wise is the Mystic Melviis' return and one new planned trap. I plan to have those out by the end of October or early November! ^-^

I have it in the books to make 5 core servants, more traps, and to expand the scope slightly by adding more rounds!

SBD (kind of)

A couple months ago I said I was working on fully fixing and re-balancing the game. Life came in and dropped a fat deuce on my timeline so that has been low priority versus current stuff and personal matters. Rest assured that is still happening since it's my biggest and most important project. It deserves to be the best it can be with all the feedback I've got so far!

Additionally, those design videos I so excitedly wanted to make. I'm genuinely curious: do you want to see the others? As interesting as I find the different parts of the design process, interest is really low; the effort seems better reserved for other things. I'm comfortable leaving it as a long term side project but I want to hear it from my patrons.

Future of ANORPG

This has been heavy on my mind and it's big since a narrative with Jasmine, Max, and more have dominated my thoughts for the last few years. SBD's reception was, to put it bluntly, awful. As a result: right now I'm not sure if more story focused content is the best to work on vs making a playground to fill with nebulous content for players to enjoy with a light dusting of story context. Writing a more in depth story was my initial idea since I was inspired by the Untitled Onara RPG...but that doesn't seem feasible creatively or resource wise.

The characters may pop up in other things but right now I can't justify putting that much time and effort again for another full chapter game. For the time being installments will be put on hiatus so I can focus on making the new dungeon crawler and the last big project the highest quality I can manage!

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One small favor and non-critical news

It's the main thing I ask everyone: please spread the word. Sharing my stuff with other people or in other places is way more impactful than you think.

I'm trying to not have nine different accounts to manage. Three is already a lot...well it used to be four but Gamejolt pulled a Tumblr for nsfw creators so that's at the bottom of the barrel

Please, please, make your voice heard on any of this. Just your thoughts in general or any suggestions because I genuinely need to hear it. I wouldn't directly ask if it wasn't important.

Other than that, some basic discord perks are coming up soon!

It bears repeating: thanks for sticking with and believing in me ♡

I'll see you next time!

[TH]