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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

Thanks for the feedback! Thankfully I'm redoing the whole task / relationship points system, and it will be changed for the new version :)

Yeah, that's what I'm going for at the moment, these days I'm preparing the Steam page and it will be 100% SFW on there.

I'm really glad you like it! Thanks for playing friend :)

Thanks for such a thoughtful comment friend :)

Yeah I've been thinking a lot about the whole Steam dilemma; there's some pretty raunchy with no problems in, and a big list of banned games include underage characters. I'm just cautious in case I want to include some things because I don't think Steam would love some things, like if at some point in the plot a character is drunk + sex happens, they may think there's no consent... Maybe I'm thinking about it too much, but better safe than sorry, there's no coming back from a ban as far as I know.

I'm glad you like the new pixel :) Chiharu is for sure the one I'm still not on board so don't worry, I've been sketching other designs, it's just that sometimes I have to move on to other things because I get fixated on something and then spend too much time, so I let it rest for a bit haha

Yeah about the fixed times, you explained perfectly my reasons for the change. I didn't really have much content before and it already felt like a "complex" menu. Walking from place to place felt just like pressing buttons and not really doing anything. It was a problem of my implementation, since I've played games that do it well, but I didn't.

About the inventory, I always thought about having one, mostly for gifts for the girls, but since I wanted to have some customization, letting the player place things in some spots came naturally. I'm avoiding the whole farming thing since it would feel out of place, but yeah, some plants and other decoration will be nice I think!

We will see how this turns out, but I'm really enjoying it hehe. Thanks a lot for the nice comment! Always a pleasure to read your thoughts. I'm a bit less focused on media atm, so sorry if I take a bit to answer back!

¡Y si, soy español! Prototipo mejor en español, por fin empecé a usar las herramientas para localizar fácilmente y tenerlo en los dos idiomas jajaja. Cualquier cosa me dices, tengo curiosidad por tus proyectos. Un placer :)

Yeah, I've been thinking a lot and the least optimal one is to go full ero on the Steam release... ayayay

I hope everything turns out well for you Scott 🙏

Thanks a lot for the kind words Scott!! You are always so thoughtful! I'm glad you are enjoying the changes. A lot of times when I'm re-doing something I ask myself  if people will like it better than the old stuff, so it's good to hear.

And everything is going good friend, the only thing that bothers me nowadays is the sun here in Spain haha Getting close to temperatures that make me not want to go outside until night time. Hope you are doing great too!!

I'm a bit late now myself haha Thank you very much Hetzer :) It's definitely been a wild ride, but I'm enjoying every moment. 

I appreciate your words.

Thank you Juba!! I appreciate the words :) We'll see how it turns out :D

Thank you so much for such a nice comment friend, it means a lot. I'll do my absolute best :)

Haha I understand the alt-account for this type of thing.

Well I love Godot, so might be biased! When I first started gamedev like 3 years ago, the first thing I tried was Unity, and it was a horrible experience, things felt really slow. By now you must be used to it, but once you open Godot and see that you can type code in and just open whatever scene you are in in seconds, there's no comparison. I understand not everyone cares that much, but to me it's important that it's so lightweight and fast, makes iteration easier. 

The biggest thing tho must be the licensing; I never liked the idea of needing to adhere to the rules of a company, I've come to appreciate open source more with time. Right now it's also a very good time to hop in, Godot 4 is SO much better than Godot 3, and it's just fun to develop in general in Godot, can't explain it any other way.. Also I strongly encourage you to give gdscript a try, since it's really easy to pick up and learn, it's very integrated in the engine with plenty of documentation.

If you ever give it a go, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks a lot Brodn :)

Damn I always have a hard time during winter and don't ever see snow, can't imagine winter where you are from! I guess with a lot of snow also comes a lot of water, so no lack of wood for you. Indeed it's best to do something and feel active!

Thankfully a lot of wonderful japanese composers that have royalty free music; once this gets a bit bigger I'd love to contact them and see if I can have some commissioned music from them, would be really cool!

And same to you :)

I appreciate the kind words William :)

As a gamedev you know these things take time, but feels nice once they are done right? I wish you good luck with your project as well! If you ever want to share something I'd be glad to look at it :)

I appreciate the kind words. I'm back at it after dealing with IRL stuff :) Hope everything is good with you as well!