Temporary shift of focus -> Smaller game to put out something playable before summer ends.

So! Love Inn still needs quite a bit more development before I can give you guys something substantial to play. I've been wanting to put out something playable for a while now, but Love Inn is not on the table at this moment. I had two main ideas:

- Develop assets for a smaller, contained version of Love Inn, which I can later use on the main project. So, just focus on having a room / bathroom / onsen, and fill it with naughty scenes. Just imagining that as a standalone minigame is attractive to me! Plus, it would be nice since I'd be progressing the game anyway. 
My main problem is that it would cheapen the experience for the story mode. Needing to progress some storyline on the main game, just to see naughty you've seen before.

- Just use an original idea, but use everything I've been building for Love Inn (artstyle, as much code as possible). It would be new, not related to Love Inn, but still taking advantage of the work I've put in the main game.

So for the last week I've been putting together a prototype, it's kind of an idle game, like a tamagotchi. The idea is for it to have no dialogue, no CGs, situated in one room, one girl, simple gameplay loop. It's a very distilled version of Love Inn. Allows me to go pretty fast, the bulk of work will be pixel animations basically.

As a small synopsis:

Woman arrives at a monastery, being completely beaten up. You take her in, and have to take care of her until she fully recovers. She has stats, and then will do things according to her needs, like a sim. She can go out on journeys, which might put her on danger, but she'll bring back money.

The more nights she spends in the monastery, a closer bond will form, leading to lewd.

Q&A

Have you lost interest in Love Inn?

Not at all, Love Inn is still priority.

Why this, now?

Both intrinsic and extrinsic reasons. I want people to play something from me soon. I have a lot of fun making Love Inn, but I understand just reading about development for a long time mustn't be very interesting. Plus some things have come up, I need SPEED.

Release plans?

Steam. Base game on Steam won't have +18, I'll try contacting Steam to see if I can put the +18 content as a free DLC there. I've seen it before, so hopefully I can make that. I've talked about it before, but the reason, is that China, Germnay... bans +18 games. So by having the base game safe, people from those regions can download the patch elsewhere and just play normal, and normal Steam users can just download from the Steam page the lewd patch.

On Love Inn: Spent the other week doing assets on places and characters. Making an open world implies a bunch of assets everywhere, and I like it that way, I don't want to compromise and make it smaller / less detailed. Hopefully this smaller project can buy me more time to keep working on Love Inn.

Made a bunch of japanese trees with TreeIt too; sakura make the scenarios feel more convincing

IRL

Not spending too much time on this, but my pc finally died on the 29th, I felt it was coming after all the problems I've been having these past months, but damn. Like the last couple of times, I save progress pretty often to github, so didn't lose anything, plus the disks are good anyway. I borrowed a PC from my cousin and now I'm working with that, so it's all good! No luck? No problem.

Take care guys! More on the 14th.