Update and important campaign news moving forward.

Hello everyone. First of all, thank you for the pledges and support for the last couple of months after hearing the situation.

I've been out and about doing local work and commissions to pay debt and survive each day and I would like everyone to now that I am literally being saved by you guys for survival. I had hopes for my property getting sold, but so far, no takers.

I'll probably stay clear of local work soon as travelling and semi office work just drains me so much, I'll just get sick and that will be a worse situation. So I may stick with commissions for the 'meet the ends' work. (once the current ones are done, I'll open a few slots maybe here as a Patreon tier)

That said, I've decided on something controversial.

But first or again, know that Divine Arms is NOT cancelled. I am doing this for Siggy, in fact.

Realistically, if I had the funds and won't need to do side work, Divine Arms at it's current state will still need a consistent 2-3 years of solo dev to complete, at it's midimum. (I won't settle for minimum) - and at the campaign's current state, it may never see 1.0

Those who had interest in the property I decided to sell did not buy it in the end. I even lost $200 for the legal paperwork to get it out there, and the longer it stays unsold, the more I lose hope it ever will.

So for the survival of ViperV and Divine Arms, I am reviving Forbidden Arms.

So please hear me out. As stated, this is a financial situation preventing me from going full time for Divine Arms and you ask how is Forbidden Arms saving it?

One, it already has enough sprites and assets. Two, it already has ample lewd scenes. It just needed to be ported from Godot 3 to 4 which is already 80% done and have been doing since September with whatever time I have after all side work.

The gist of the plan is this:

• Forbidden Arms gameplay using all existing sprites.

• No complex story like Divine Arms. Only lewd unlocks for gameplay when you win.

• Just a single (currently secret) mechanic to keep it interesting.

• ALL of ViperV's animated scenes that everyone have seen and have NOT seen will be unlockable. That is near 100 animations if we include Dazky's! (Forbidden Arms' actual lewd animations) and I will be adding a few more!

• Yes, all animated scenes including ALL my finished animations and Chris Armin's of DA

• Mahalai, Siggy, Lucrea and guest characters will be in the game! Semi-Canon but basic story.

• Static lewd images are also unlockable and have already asked guest artists, including my wife's work and possibly fan art to be included in the unlocks.

• Finish the game in 2027

• Sell through Steam and hopefully get enough funds to then do Divine Arms full time.

• Maybe have enough profit to hire Armin again for Divine Arms. If not, I already have someone in mind or i'll just do it myself again. (Not ideal, just last resort)

• Property gets sold? Much better turn of events.

I know a few NSFW publishers to pitch the game to as well! Though If you know Shades from Shady Lewd Kart, (where Siggy is a guest character among others) He's a great guy, a champion of nsfw devs and is a publisher. Probably my first pick.

By Jan or Feb, (assuming El Nino has not killed me yet), a playable demo will be available. The core build loop should be done by then and the only things left to do after would be adding all the remaining lewds and actual game progression. Oh! And the missing sprites. Old animator, as per tradition did leave me with unfinished work, so I'll have to fill those parts in. But no worries as the remaining sprites will be easy to do because the enemies in the game are very simple to do and is part of the secret mechanic that I have to design to be lazy and rushed but fits the narrative seamlessly. Besides, it is not going to be a big game, maybe just 3-4 phases / bosses and again, just simple skill upgrades and lewd unlocks. At 3 minimum phasing, we're looking at 40-50 unlockable lewds per.

Anyway, thanks you for reading all the way down here and I hope you find the plan promising and I hope many of you would support me on this as I feel this is kind of my last resort and chance to save the whole campaign as I really see no other way.

(Unless my property gets sold soon... ( >_>)" )

Once I finish some local contract work, I'll switch back to commissions, so if you can, please support me there, too as I realize the more I don't have to leave home to do side-work, the more manageable it is to do dev work and commissions.

Thank you all for the support and I hope you keep doing so. It keeps me fighting despite all the storms. (literally and figuratively)

-kReig out!