A Final Appeal

I've held off on making an announcement like this, but after speaking to a few other creators about the issue I figured that it was probably the only option left rather than just silently slinking away. For some context, this project doesn't have a team behind it - its just me (a writer, with no real programming experience outside of self-taught experience in Inform) - nor does it have some massive amount of funding as it currently is making very very little. Despite that I've made a pretty sizable game with a massive amount of content.

However, the game is falling far short of expectations, and has been since it was released. This is in spite of an update that tripled the size of the project and gave the game a definitive ending and tons of content. Needless to say but I should not have to do what would be thousands of USD of work as a commission for free to maintain what little this game brings in currently, nor is that even a possibility. Based on what was said by other creators, the consensus seems to be that the game should've been paywalled from the start as an incentive to support - and that I should move on to another project instead. That is something that would really suck, as it would mean all the effort I put into this would be wasted - however, I don't see any real path at this point.


 Before I fully commit to deciding to abandon the project though, I thought I would make a final appeal. Putting everything out there and asking once more for people to try to help me make this work, and correcting the issue of incentives.

Here is the Roadmap that I had planned out, should I get the support:

-Redesign the entire first half of the game to be in line with the quality of the second, including expanding each deck, adding in three new slug-tentacle enemies, adding in new scenes and possibility even secrets, and overall making it much more enjoyable to play.

-Adding in a small area to the second half of the game to allow encounters from the first half.

-Adding in new enemies to the second half of the game, one per deck plus the final boss area.

-Adding in more corruption nodes to make corrupting Nal more dynamic.

-Artwork, though that is a distant dream at this point given the price quotes.

And of course a lot of this would be subject to change and addition based on input from those helping to make it possible. If any of this appeals to any of you, and if any of you think you'd want to see any of this come into reality, then I would ask that you help support the game. You can do so on my Subscribestar, my Ko-fi, or here on itch.io itself! Sharing the game around also helps, though there are few places where I haven't shared it myself.

I still think we can prove those I talked to wrong, and get things back on track and make this project work. To those that have already helped support it, I greatly appreciate it! It means a lot that the work I make for others is itself appreciated and enjoyed - and I sincerely hope that this project can pop off in a positive way so that I can continue to work on erotic games in the future!