Project Announcement + Thanks for 11k views and 2k downloads!

Hey there! Pann here

First of all I'd like to thank everyone for the 11k+ views and 2k+ downloads!! 

I'm genuinely shocked and humbled by the overwhelmingly positive reception of Strange Screentime because it's not only my first published game, it's not that long of one ether. Thank you again, really.

Now onto the announcement news!

As (a lot more than expected) people have asked for the project to be worked on more or such, since I stated on the description if the game had enough interest in being extended or expanded upon, I've decided that an expansion on this project is in the works!

The new game will not be called "Alphur" as I'd like to keep that as the name for the O2A2 version of the game, since I would at least to keep an idea of it's origins and the fact that this game was only made in a week with extreme limitations.

Still in very early concepting stages but so far from what I can confirm is planned to be in the next game :

• After running a small poll on twitter, I see that the general interest in an extension would be preferred to be focused on Don rather than extending the cast with more options of characters to date. So the next game will mainly focus on Don and his story with you.
• The implementation of short segments with the main character dealing with their day-to-day life at times will be present as I plan to rework the "Alphur" interface. This will NOT be including anything like time management or anything though, I don't personally like that mechanic in visual novels, too stressful for a game that's intended to be chill.
• Relaxing the margin of error as I've learnt with Alphur.
• There will be no NSFW scenes or imagery (Yes, I know this might be a deal breaker for some). This is a personal choice as I never intended the game to have them in the first place. Any scenes of the like will be heavily suggestive at most.
• Not completely confirmed but I would like the player to be able to open or at least have to interact with other programs (in game) than the chat app for story, once again nothing too complicated but existing solely for scene specific stuff (eg. an internet browser to view "links" and such).

That's what I've got so far, that and beats for the story but those are for me. Mine <3

Anyway now for the semi-bad, semi-good news.

Sadly, I will most likely not be touching the project majorly until at least December as I am visiting my fiancé for 3 months and won't have access to a lot of my tools during that time, only my laptop.

The other reason I won't be able to work on it until then is because I will actually be working on a project for BaraJam2022, I've actually been planning to join the jam since right after I finished SS:A and have had a few ideas lined up! As the jam runs for 2 months, I'll be able to make a somewhat short but actual completed game (or at least that's the plan) during that time. Nothing as aspirational as Strange Screentime, but something just as fun!

But yeah, I'll be posting updates for my projects every now and then on my twitter so feel free to follow for updates, or whatever dumb shit I tweet half of the time!

Once again, thank you everyone for the views and downloads!! It really means a lot and is very validating

I hope you all look forward to SS:BB in the future!