What comes next? 馃崋? 馃拫? (Part 9)
Hello again, wonderful patrons!
Let's talk about the results of our last poll... Wow, what an intense showdown! The poll for our Popular College Girl was incredibly tight. Popular Girl 11 officially took the crown with 71 votes, narrowly beating Popular Girl 8 by merely 4 votes! It was a tough battle, but I'm incredibly pumped with the winning design. (It was my favorite too!) Thank you to everyone who voted!
Now, let's keep expanding and developing the world. For this post, we have a double-feature! I need you to choose the designs for two brand new characters: The Artist Girl and The Gamer Girl. I've put together 9 distinct options for the Artist, and 9 options for the Gamer.
Gamer Girl
Artist Girl
Now, for a bit of a personal Update:
For those who haven't been following the conversations about my brother... here is a quick summary: he used to work as a game developer for a company but was recently laid off. Last week, we decided to try and make a "short game" together just to get the feeling that working together was a good idea. But... it actually ended up looking so nice that we both agreed it would be a total waste to just leave it as a short game.
So, we came up with a solution! We are going to take the awesome stuff we did last week and incorporate it into the new big game that you are voting on right now, which will be my next project after I finish Dane. My brother is going to officially handle the programming and the sound design for it! Having him on board is going to be a massive help, and I'm hoping it means we can produce that next game much faster than what I can do working solo.
That said, Dane is still my solo project, and I will continue developing it on my own until the official release at the end of the year.
Speaking of the official release... I actually need your advice! My original plan was to release the game on Steam on January 15th... but I'm heavily considering moving it up to December 11th. Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with this? I'm a complete newbie when it comes to releasing on Steam, lol! Let me know in the comments what you think is the better release window.
Dane Update:
This week I am fully back to the grind! I'm currently working on Nana, and her scenes are looking really great so far. That's pretty much all I have to share for today, lol. I think I can finish this next update in 2, maybe 3 weeks tops.
Stay tuned, and don't forget to vote below!
Comments (7)
I'm not playing on Steam, so I can't give you any advice there. For me, I think the most important thing is when do you feel like the project will be ready for release? IMO, a rushed project that gets released early would be a much worse choice than a polished project that is released later. OTOH, there is the theory that you should release early and release often. Just make sure that each component you release is actually ready to go.
I completely agree about not rushing, Brad! Honestly, Dane is basically my whole life right now, haha. I work on it 32 hours a day: I eat, sleep, and breathe this game. While it is my first game, I can guarantee you that I am pouring absolutely everything I have into making it the best game possible. But I can tell you a little secret: I have already written the endgame for all the characters, plus a massive 'Main' ending for when the player gets 100% completion. In my humble opinion, I think it's going to be amazing! XD
I was a little surprised that I liked artist girl #6 the best. I guess it's because she brings the most variety to the table? For the gamer girl, I'm almost always going to go with the bigger boobs. So, gamer girl #1 is it.
Wee need some chocolate in the game
If you do plan to release Dane on Steam on December this year of 2026 which could be good because of the Holidays and Steam has Winter sales. However you must have a lot of content done for Dane to release on Steam and the remainder would be DLC.
Hmm... that's a valid idea, Chris! I was originally thinking of DLC as extra expansion content for next year if the game does well. But using the DLC model as a way to hit that December deadline is a really interesting perspective. Thanks for the advice!
Nice poll of the two girls. The artist girl I find number 7 and 8 the most appealing but I do like #9 the most. The Gamer girl designs are good especially #1 and #8 and #9 but I love #5 because hair buns are super good on her.