Leather & Madness
A New Year, A Game Near Completion: Developer Update
Greetings, everyone!
Firstly, I want to wish every one of you a fantastic New Year. I hope it's been a time of joy for you all.
These past days have been incredibly productive for me, and I'm thrilled to share that, sticking to the planned schedule, all the artwork and texts for the game are now complete. Yes, you read that right — all the epilogues and scenes are wrapped up, and we are on the brink of concluding this game development journey.
In the upcoming days, my focus will be on revisiting the texts, making minor corrections, and extensively testing the game before rolling out the final release. It's been an intriguing journey, one where I've learned a great deal, and I sincerely hope you've found as much enjoyment in the game as I have in creating it.
I won't keep you too long this time, as promised in the previous post. The final delivery is set for early February, right on schedule. No need to wait until Valentine's Day; I won't make you endure the suspense.
Once again, I urge you to share your thoughts and feedback. The game will remain free, and all I ask for is your continued support.
Warm regards,
The Puppydragon
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I'm impressed with the many multiple endings -- and I still think Valentine's Day would be a very appropriate day to release the final game (I ♥ CTHULHU!) -- but earlier will be acceptable. :)
I haven't been able to do much computer-wise for several weeks now due to my OS getting damaged. However, I decided not to bother to fix it, but instead do something I have been planning for some time, get a really GREAT high-end computer, which is being built for me now.
Alas, there was been a delay due to the guy (who is a whiz when it comes to computers!) becoming very sick for about a week. *sigh* Still he is a very nice guy and I think this new computer will be worth the wait!
I'm looking forward to the ending(s) of "Leather & Madness". Thank you so much for combining gay male character and the Cthulhu Mythos and BDSM! :)
I'll be waiting for the sequel game! :)
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Well, if everything goes as I've planned this Sunday, I'll release the 0.9.9 version of the game. I'll explain it better in the dev blog that I've prepared. I think it will be a surprise for everyone. What I can say is the story will be complete in this release, but I'll make some more changes before I can say the game is in the 1.0 version.
When I think of what you are planning on doing, I think of how fans of Half-Life remade the game into Black Mesa.
Of course they had teams working on *that* for at least a decade....
*lol* I don't expect you to invest that much time and effort, but I do like what you have planned. I did suggest you give some of your characters different builds from the body-builder-type. Also, you could introduce perhaps more different racial types, like Asian or Indian.
And perhaps you might add content to the story inside, adding more details, or even adding sub-plots that might then tie into the main plot — or perhaps just be a dead end (but still fun!)
One warning: Do you know of the Mythos author T.E.D. Klein. He has written some excellent Mythos fiction (and other fiction in general). But his output of material is somewhat small — because he keeps rewriting what he wrote, and then rewriting that, and then rewriting that.... *sigh* He is such a *good* author, I and others wish there was more of his works to read.
Just as you did with this 0.9.9 version of the game, you *ARE* going to be learning now to do things better by doing them over again — and also, the technology will keep improving. So promise yourself that the 1.0.0 version will be your *FINAL* version of Leather and Madness (barring any bug-fix updates).
And then move on to making a *NEW* game — or doing something entirely different: maybe write a gay Mythos *novel* instead. Don't fall into the trap of always wanting to make L&M better and Better and BETTER....
Well, unless you decide to redo the whole thing *two decades* from now.
:)
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Hi!
First of all, as always, thank yoy very much for your comments.
Don't worry, I'm not planning to change the story or anything, I'll just redo the backgrounds and the characters. And I mean only redoing the the arts. I'm not going to change the look or the character. So adding othe racial types is left for future games, I'm sorry. The only thing I could extend a bit would be the "perfect endings" as I comment in the dev blog. Consider the game finished as it is.
And don'r wory. I don't think it will take me so much time to redo everything but.... I would like to finish baldur's gate first hahaha. :)
As an advance of the character redoing let me present you the new version of our old friend Malachi.
Ah, I see what you are doing. Originally it sounded like you were going to possibly doing major revisions to the entire game, but actually, it is the artwork. Okay then! GO FOR IT!
And, ooooooohhhh! You mentioned "future games"!!!
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Cool cool. The game is very fun though a little hard sometimes. I've played it several times over and I found some really interesting scenes hidden away behind very specific choices.
I'm glad you like it. I wanted to make a game where choices matter. That's why there are more than 20 different epilogues based on the choices you have made :)