Posted January 23, 2023 by Forgotten Lectures
As opening chapters have been finished and released it is time to move forward to the next phase
From now on the story will offer more choices and options to the player. Which means you can choose how to proceed most times of the day. Yes there will be some major fixed events to progress the overall narative story but otherwise it will be up to the player which character paths to follow. This of course means that you will not able to witness all events in one play through as there is not enough time a day to meet everyone and go everywhere.
but this has several implications
1) it will not make sense to release on day by day (ingame) basis anymore as many event will be depending on previous actions an have no fixed day they will or might happen. therfore the future release cicly will be week based (ingame) for a while till we reach a major plot event
2) based on that it will be no longer possible to get updates done within 3-4 week cycles as much more story and events will be required. Especially in the beginning of the new cycly. I remain optimistic to be able to manage an approx 2 month dev cycle per week
future plans
once week 2 and 3 are released it will be time to concentrate to push the game to steam early access to get more exposure
will that be the end of the itch version? nope, but the steam version will have a couple of extra scenes. nothing major impacting the story. so you still can enjoy the overall story with the free version.
the steam version will be a on a very low price level as it will be similar to the free one.
BUT
there are plans for a "DLC" on steam adding spicy NSFW content
you might have noticed some implied events and points where some NSFW scenes will fit in already. but that will take a lot of work and someone need to pay the bills as well sooner or later ;)
right now i'm a bit busy prepared an upcomming convention i will be present and do some advertising and print selling. But during the past week I already started to laying out the new internal framework for the event handling depening on times of days and events you have been at and choices you made. If things work out i expect the release of week 2 arround mid march. but there will be a couple of updates till then