Sunday, January 24, 2016

A new path



Announcement:
First and foremost, work on Chapter 3 is flying along.  Mapping is finished, coding is about 90% of the way done.  Writing is about 60-65% of the way done and imaging is maybe 30% done.  We are absolutely on pace for a chapter 3 release in February.

0.3 status
Writing : 65%
Imaging : 40%
Mapping : complete
Eventing : 80%
Testing : 10%

But I want to talk to you all a bit more personally:
The amount of support that you’ve all given me so far has been so far beyond my expectations that it’s been humbling.  Enough where I had to really reconsider what I had been doing for a profession.  Something I didn’t think I mind doing, something I had done for 10 years but I finally realized that first I wasn’t enjoying it and second I wasn’t doing anything more with my life.  I had to reconsider what I was doing and when I asked myself that question I couldn’t answer it.  So I stopped doing it.

I’d saved up a good amount in my time there so I’m not going hungry, rather pursuing personal goals.  I’ve always enjoyed writing and thought I’d try to write a book.  Been doing the 9-5 grind for long enough to figure I owed myself a chance at a dream.  But what I found it is how much I enjoyed working on Harem.  The amount of time that I’ve spent working on Harem over the last two weeks has been intense and incredibly fun.  Now I don’t think I’ll be able to do this full time forever but I figure I’ll take a shot at that as well.  I’ve set a series of milestone goals in Patreon as if this was my primary income.

So I want to thank everyone for their support and let you know that it helped me focus more on achieving life goals rather than just getting through day by day.  Maybe we can make this work and we can start thinking of finishing Harem and maybe even more games in the future!

Also involved with the goal setting I’m going to be defining two types of releases.  Major and minor.  Major is what you already know.  New tracts of land opening up, having the primary plotline move forward with new slaves joining your Harem in bunches.  I’m playing with the concept of minor releases as well.  Minor releases would be more focused on flushing out existing areas.  More character interactions and side-quest within existing content.  This can involve new characters (although probably not new main characters) or a questline focused on a particular character.  Most of the slaves have far more in depth backstories then I can express in the narrative flow of the story but it would be fun to take a detour into some of their personal lives as well.  Minor releases would be focused on things like that.  Finally, content like the 0.6a and 0.6b would be considered to be separate major releases.

As always, I love feedback.  Let me know what you think of the game, what you’d like to see developed and feel free to talk about my own life-goals as well!  If I want this to work, I definitely have to be more involved with all of you!

15 comments:

  1. So you really are, *removes the first pair of sunglasses* living the dream.

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  2. Were you supposed to be able to get Elmer's staff as an equippable weapon (for Terra, and maybe Donna) after you saw all the events at the tower he and Terra had stayed in? I thought you could in v1, but it doesn't show up in my inventory at all afterward (I had found all memory fragments and viewed that h-scene between the MC and Terra).

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    1. It's a bug that will be corrected retroactively corrected in chapter 3.

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  4. i have a question. is being your patron thing the only way to play the game? i fig (considering other types of these games) since most just post older versions 4 the nons to play but i cant see any. im i just blind or what. also 4 the record i played your "original" version and it was fun game over all but one thing i didnt get is y i have to be a bad guy to get the hot bounty hunter? if i helped her with her job and she "rewards" me won't that be considered the "good side" way of adding her?

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    1. Little bit hard to follow this one.
      1. Redoing the game. Info: http://harem-vx.blogspot.com/2015/11/back.html
      2. There was a rationale as to why you got Rhea on light and Alena on dark which will likely be continued in v2. The editor and I have frequently talked about a loop around later to get the other but it's still up in the air.

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  5. will there be a way to keep your slaves at the in the light and not sell them? playing v1 i grew really attached to those characters and it seems really cruel to sell them at the end instead of living with all of them happyly ever after

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    1. Yeah maybe get a bunch of nameless slaves and you keep your harem. Well there is a down side to that. Isn't the MC sterile? Which wouldn't help his homelands depopulation issue. Plus bringing in like 20 girls won't save his land he needs thousands. Maybe hundreds at the very least assuming none are lost in child birth or naturally infertile.

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    2. I thought is only the women of the land that is infertile.

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  6. Those are good questions! Already written a bit in chapter 3 that will address that. Or at least ask the question.

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  7. Hey, just found a bit of a bug, not sure if there's a bug report forum or what have you.

    The issue hits when you go to the church to get help getting the demons out of the mage and they invite you into their private chambers. Should you investigate the ladder before you talk to them you get stuck down in the basement by an announcement that you must save the mage.

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  8. ok heres a bug i found. the side quest for the wolfs tails i cant turn in but i can activate the quest giver but no text/reward is given

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  9. glad to her that your tentative return has become an amazingly positive experience for you. :)

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  10. Really happy to hear that you are doing well and right on track of what you want to be, Ker - it is a luxury that many people certainly would love to have. As I mentioned in the other thread, I've been following Harem for years, and I don't have a plan to stop anytyime soon. In comparison to the other games, that I have ever played, which put the emphasis on slavery, Harem is relatively unique in a sense that all of the girls are still their own despite being slaves who were mostly mind-controlled by Ralph's "gift" (Light path at least), e.g Phoebe's own initiative to release her sister and Corsix Trial. If that aspect is retained no matter how many iteration Harem will ever go through, I will be a happy fan.

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