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!