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Oh I was curious about what you said about Patreon, didn't know you were also a gamedev until now! I agree I have no idea how profitable Patreon is or how to make it interesting for people to spend money, so for now I'm sticking with traditional gamedev. We will see how it turns out.

You seem like a cool person, thanks for your interest. Hope things are going well for you too.

Hello! First of all, let me say I appreciate your concerns and the very kind words, truly.

I agree that I'm held back financially by my stubbornness, but I'm fine with that. I prefer to dedicate my efforts into something I'm proud of. I can't feel proud if I know I can do a better job. I really dislike some common practices in the NSFW gamedev world, so I simply won't partake in them, whatever happens happens. A lot of times I've thought about just leaving this space and going fully SFW, since I don't get the Patreon mindset. But I really want to see something that I'd play, and that's the games I make.

Having said that, with the way I want to make games, yes, Love Inn would be unprofitable for a long time. So I still consider what I'm doing the best option, since Chibi Monster Girls made more money in 1 day as a premium game than 3 months of Love Inn (back when I was doing updates). You think this was a big mistake, and you may be right in a strictly financial sense, but the way I see it, all this could buy me some time to develop Love Inn with love and care without the pressure to release low quality content quickly in fear of Patreon earnings dropping.

Damn Ikaros, that's great feedback ,thank you very much! I agree with pretty much everything and will make changes. Some of my thoughts:
- The save button I think I'll keep in Options menu, mostly because I don't think I can fill an entire separate menu for that, but I agree it can be ambiguous, so I'll make that much clearer!

- Yeah having no delay for tooltips seems a great idea, same with the menu buttons and construction tooltips. One problem I have is that I think I can't easily force the game to show tooltips without the windows being in focus, at least not with the default system Godot has, so I'll need a custom way of doing that. Will look into it.

- I'll try to replicate the bug with the second monitor. Do you have some more info on how to reproduce it? Right now I can always interact with them on 2nd monitor. Does the cursor change? Like it's detecting the Monster, but clicking does nothing?

- I'll have some changes to the spray.

Thanks for such a thoughtful and detailed response Ikaros, your comments made me improve Love Inn after the first release too. I appreciate it!

I'm trying to replicate it. How did you stop the building mode, exiting the game? Did you have something grabbed when trying to exit the mode?

Are you on Linux or Windows?

1. That's something I had in mind, but I'll probably wait a bit to add it since I want it to be a mid game object, not something to get early on.

2- Yeah this is good, I'll have a cap tho so you can't upgrade past the current max level Monster in the game (right now level 4, will increase next update with next Monsters).

3. Customization is tricky with multiple unique animations (mainly the ero ones) so I'll put it in the back for now at least.

I'm happy there's interest in the femboy! I have a special place in my heart for the character, I hope to make him justice.

And thank you very much EndNefric, I appreciate the words :)

Bless you Scott!

Man Scott thank you very much, you've been supporting for such a long time! This game started as a way to finance my time to work on Love Inn, and it's going surprisingly well so far, so I'm very happy about that

I think I've never seen a Pigeon Harpy, seems extremely cute haha And the Dog Monster Girl concept I had is really close to your description!

Great, the first one is pretty easy to do, will do for next update (when pressing on the portrait of the monster?).

1. Got it for the explanations. Right now I have a couple tooltips on the "Levels" part of the info + traits + attention, but really should just do one for all stats.

2. This is a bit more tricky. Months ago I thought about different hairstyles for example, having a more composition approach to the Monster sprites, but it quickly grew out of hand and I decided to simplify it to colors. I'm not against revisiiting it in the future, but right now I'm gonna fill the game with more species of Monster Girls for a while.

That's weird. Can you take a look in this folder, and see if you have the Chibi Monster Girls folder?
C:\Users\YOUR_NAME\AppData\Roaming\

There should be multiple folders and a a couple save files. Are there no archives there?

Oh like tracking the Monsters? Yeah I agree. With how I have setup the camera system it should be easy to implement.

Thank you very much Brodn!!! Bless your soul. Let me know if you have any problems :)

• How do you move the camera?
  You can use either the left and right arrows, or you can move the cursor while pressing the middle mouse cursor.

• How do you move the Keeper?
  Just double click where you want to go!
  

• How do you heal Monster Girls when they are sick?
  You need to give them the Lavender Sap, the last item on the shop. I'll make this clearer for next time!

• I have a black screen instead of the game being transparent.
  This has helped other people with other desktop games:
  1. Right click the .exe
  2. Properties
  3. Compatibility.
  4. Check Disable Fullscreen Optimizations.
  5. Run the game.

• Where can I find the +18 patch?
  If you are an adult, you can find the ero content pack in:
  Reddit: Ero Content
  My Discord: Discord Server

Hello!

You'll encounter some bugs (hopefully none too bothersome), so if you let me know I'll try to fix it ASAP!

Thank you for posting, you are making the game better with your contribution!

CURRENTLY KNOWN BUGS:

• The first time some things appear on screen, there will be a small stutter. This only happens the first time. I need to add a loading screen so you don't see the stutter.
• When the Sheep Monster Girls follows the keeper, sometimes she bugs a bit.
• When a Monster Girl egg is highlighter, the texture gets squished.

If you want to see something added to the game, please post it in this thread so I can see it, and people can vote on your idea!

If something is highly requested and it fits in the game, I'll heavily consider adding it (if you request a Croco Monster Girl I'm coming to your house).

Hey thanks a lot! If it's any inspiration, 4 years ago I didn't know how to code and had barely drawn since becoming an adult, so I'm sure you could give it a go!

Yeah auto-dub sucks (any kind of auto-translating I dislike), and they don't even let you disable it!

And damn I live in a flat on a 7th story building, never lived in a house with a basement, must be nice in there nowadays. Thankfully since we last spoke the season is milder, nice change of pace. Hope it's going better for you too Scott! Cheers.

I appreciate it Scott, nice to hear from you as always!! Shame about the heat wave, I know the feeling unfortunately haha. I don't know if I mentioned this previously, but in Spain we have "persianas", which is kind of a heavy / solid blinds outside the windows, so the sun doesn't reach the glass. I live in constant darkness nowadays haha

Take care from the heat, we are around halfway through!!

Thank you Scott!! Summer is indeed hellish, it's been consistently +36ºC/96ºF here.  I've already forgotten what it feels like to be cold haha. I read about you going on walks, and I wanted to try and went on some too, have been a bit too sedentary.

And glad you like the name! That's a good sign for me. We will see how this goes.
Hope summer is gentler with us from now on. Have a good one Scott!

No futa or trans, but a femboy is in the works,

Happy to hear friend :) Just a small thing so the wait for Love Inn doesn't hurt so much haha

Because of me not being able to publish it manually, it started when I wasn't on home for a couple of days haha

And thanks a lot! Honestly it was a nice break, I've been doodling a bit more these days on paper. Always doubted if I could do things like that on paper without a tablet.

Yesterday in Spain the weather was really warm, hope you are having better weather nowadays Scott! 

Haha yeah honestly, there's always something to do, and different ways to do so. When the PC was at the tech store I just wrote dialogue for the characters on the phone. No electricity? Just write ideas on paper XD

About the male, it's mainly the same deal as Astolfo (from Fate) or Bridget (from Guilty Gear). My tastes are fairly broad haha. I realize some people might not like it, that's why I won't force characters into the inn, every character except the main three girls, isn't mandatory. He could be at the inn too and attend events, and not be pursued romantically, that's up to the players to choose.

Someone else suggested to me the inclusion of an elderly woman,, and while I'm done adding extra characters for a long while now (for my own sanity drawing sprites), I'd like to add sex scenes between the parents of some of the LI. I guess in a semi-voyeur way. Sounds worse than when I picture the player stumbling at it and having a sweet short little scene. About the ages of characters, I have a ballpark with all of them, but purposely don't want have specifics myself.

About the scope, trust me friend, I have that in mind always. It's a big project, but having <30 characters,  10 being romanceable, doesn't sound too far fetched compared to other life sims. We will see if this becomes an Ikaros story, flying too close to the sun. But i really don't mind the time, I'll be doing this no matter what, it's my love in life at this moment.

Cheers Scott, thanks as always for the well wishes, hope you are doing great!

Yeah I get that. Main solution I thought was to just allow for the player to continue playing after whatever years, even if the new content stops. Some characters are in the inn in a  temporary way, like studying for university, so them being there for 8 years, kind of breaks the immersion, that's the main reason I mention a "deadline". But I don't have any real reason to demand the player to stop playing if they want to continue their save.

In-universe, the explanation could be that the characters want to stay a bit longer there. You just need a bit of suspension of disbelief when someone mentions going to play an university match when they are near 30 haha

Damn I didn't expect the femboy to be popular, I'm glad.

I really want each character to feel unique enough, so I'll see how the relationships develop, if more personalities / characters are missing and such. Can't say for sure, but even if the game only has one, I'll give the character plenty of love.

Hey Scott, thanks so much as always for your thoughts! I have a bunch of other versions for Ayumi, I had this prepared for like the "final" version, but this morning I just changed her to the one on the post, not the first time someone didn't like those eyes haha

But yeah, the build to build grind is real, definitely prefer to take things at their own pace, some months are more technical than others. But yeah, things are moving faster than before and now with a lot of the things in place, I'm feeling better than ever! Plus the sun is starting to shine here, that might play a big part haha

And yeah, the small town of Persona 4 is just great, specifically wanted to play the game because of it. And I get, gaming backlog is a real obstacle nowadays, I finish so little games nowadays... But games are a wonderful thing, so glad to be born in this time period where we can enjoy them.

Thanks for everything Scott, hope your time away goes well and is worth it! Take care.

Thanks a ton! Still a lot to work through, but it'll get there!

Thanks a lot! There's so many great, great looking anime / games from that era, the vibes are unmatched. I'm missing the sauce that makes it look that amazing, but I'm finally happy with the direction! Thanks for your patience :)

I just looked at my Steam library and I've put 200 hours in, which isn't much for Total War fans, but my god I have enjoyed those hours. Easy top 5 franchises for me.

Scott! I also love reading your thoughts about the progress, as always I try to have some time off to properly answer. Some things are from Discord, but I update itch much less frequently, so I thought I'd share here too, sorry if there's not much new! And yeah, a reaaally big part of this project (and I guess every project) is just iteration, being able to come back and revisit things I'm not 100% sure. I used to like to draw a ton when I was a kid/teen, but life catches up and when I started work I abandoned it completely, so this whole thing has been a godsend to reinvigorate my passion for it haha

And yeah, I understand. I've changed a ton of things, and every now and then I open the old Love Inn file to just move around and look at some code, and it's some kind of nostalgia even if hasn't been that long haha Some of its minimalist charm is gone, and it was a difficult decision at the time, but now I'm more invested than ever in this new thing, so I hope I can put a different kind of charm into the new stuff.

Thanks a lot for commenting Scott, I always appreciate it! Even if it's really simple, I spend a couple of hours gathering/writing this, so it's really nice to receive feedback! And thankfully everything has been going smoothly, aside from catching some colds haha 
Hope you are doing excellent!

Scott man you always say such nice things, I think I get a bit blushed. Many many thanks for you words man.
I know I take my sweet time, but I just keep staring at the screen thinking what could be improved. I'm very far from true artists or true game developers, I'm just a wannabe, but I'm stubborn enough to keep trying haha.
I'll keep working hard on it, and hopefully it will be good enough one day :) I'm extremely glad you notice all the hours that go into it, it makes everything more rewarding. Even if it releases and it's a complete flop, I really think it's already been worth it; I never though a random loser from a small town in Spain could reach so many good hearted people. I'm already lucky.
I hope you have an stellar year friend, take care from the cold!

Yeah, like using Github has been the best decision of my life mainly for that moment XD I'm paranoid so I even keep external backups haha
But life is chaotic, so what can we do. Cheers Scott!

Thank you Scott! I'm really well, some unfortunate things that happen all at once, like internet (had to changed providers even, since I had to keep calling them for days and no one came) + crash of my biggest HDD, but thank god for cloud saving nothing was lost, just a pain in the butt to change all my setup to a new SSD haha
Hope you are doing well as well :)

Oh shit I'm sorry William, I must have skipped it. Thanks a lot! The cat is amazing, she's grown so much already :)
NSFW will be applied either through a DLC or patch, still unsure, I'll have to see how far I take the NSFW content. If it's risky, it will have to be a patch. But if it's ok, it will be a free DLC. For now, it's ok, but can't really say until I develop that aspect more.
But the game is settled definitely to be SFW on Steam, however the lewd parts come through patch or DLC.

The game will be SFW on Steam, to play the NSFW you'll have to download a patch for it (or maybe I'll make it a free DLC, really depends on how risky the content is).

Hello BlackJackal! I really appreciate your kindness and words, it means a lot to me.

Even if I'm determined to bring the game to completion no matter what happens, comments like yours re-energize me. I hope I can make this wait worth it and bring something good.

I wish a good day to you :)

Hello Scott, thanks for the encouragement!! It's been quite a ride so far haha I agree that Steam is the best option for me, I'll update from time to time how it's doing stats-wise since it's an area I really enjoy, but I'm happy already just being in there!

About controller / Steamdeck support, I connect my controller all the time to test menus and such, it will be fully supported. Right now it doesn't show on the Steam page since I need to have it 100% in order to market it as such, but it will be done, same with achievements and other Steam extras which I love to have in games. About NSFW, it's part of the DNA of the game, I'll make a patch or something when the time comes.

And yeah, the kitten is def helping, spending a lot of time alone but with her it gets more lively! We take care of each other haha I hope the summer is not too bad where you are, in here we are reaching 40ºC.

I've been busy with the Steam page which is up right at this moment. Aside from that, I've been working on the front entrance of the inn, which wasn't accessible before. I'll share some screenshots soon about that :)

I don't feel good having a Patreon right now, but I really appreciate it. The best way right now to support the game, is to wishlist the game on Steam to help with the algorithm when it releases :)

I'm sorry Perro, it's been a busy month with life and making the Steam page. It will be a while till there's a playable version, but it's getting better by the day