01 - Perfect Son-In-Law: Hidden S-Rank

It's been a bit over a week since I released A Foreign World on Steam. Thank you to everyone who bought it. Thank you to everyone that has supported me through four years of development. And most importantly, thank you to everyone who has wishlisted Perfect Son-In-Law...

The game currently sits at around 3,700 wishlists on Steam. That's a very good start. I'm curious to see how this number will change in August, because boy does this game have a busy month. More about that later.

By the way, for those who are wondering, the launch of A Foreign World was decently successfull. Not the best. Not the worst. Decent enough to keep pursuing game development for a while. I think the AI translations are part of that. There have been a lot more sales coming from countries outside the US. And surprisingly enough I haven't heard a single complaint about them.

Moving on to my next project, I hope this one will be equally successfull. Of course, I will try my best to make it happen. Let's drop a big bombshell right at the start. During development I split the game in ten acts, and I've already written seven of them. Yes, you heard right. The text is already 7/10th finished.

Generally it's not wise to hype up your upcoming project, because when expectations are high, it's rare for people to be pleasantly surprised.

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Fuck that.

I love the story of Perfect Son-In-Law. It's the best I've ever written. You can be exited. I'll meet your expectation and even exceed them. That's how confident I am about this story.

So... are you curious? Well, the Demo releases on the 28th of August (6 PM UCT). Oh, that's exactly in one month... Yes. Yes it is.

I made it earlier this year so I had enough art to put up a store page. Back then I decided to pump up my game and increase the resolution of this game to 2560x1440. I didn't want to jump straight to 4K yet. It should already be a noticable improvement for those who have Desctops that can display this resolution.

Earlier I mentioned that I split the game into 10 acts, at least during development. Well, the Demo covers the first 2 acts. It's actually pretty long for a Demo on Steam. There are a lot of insteresting dynamics to set up.

Beside the increased resolution, there is something else I tried out for Perfect Son-In-Law. It's AI generated Music. And god fucking damit, AI has gotten good at this. I generated a soundtrack for the Demo. So far I'm truely impressed. Maybe I post some teaser music leading up to the release.

August.

I said Perfect Son-In-Law will have a busy month, and that's not an exageration. One way for games to surface on Steam is through festivals. They are sometimes currated, sometimes you just sign up for them, and sometimes... they appear on the front page of Steam. It's a way for released games to gain visibility, and it's a way for upcoming games to do the same.

In August both A Foreign World, and Perfect Son-In-Law: Hidden S-Rank will take part in four festivals. For those that don't know, that's a loooooooot of festivals. Some devs are begging to be let in into one festival before their game releases. The NSFW festivals on Steam are a bit more open to everyone but taking part in FOUR is certainly something new.

Realisticly, these festivals have largely the same audience, so I don't expect a 4x multiplier, but it's still fucking crazy.

Second, and maybe more importantly:

The Demo of Perfect Son-In-Law: Hidden S-Rank is going to release on the 28th of August. Put it in your calender, mark it with red, I'm really curious to see how it is received. Right now the only person that likes this story is me. Nobody else knows it. If you believe it's going to be good, then that's just because of your trust in me, the developer. But once people play the Demo, that's when I will find out if the game has the spark it needs to be truely great.

Excited?

I hope so. Here are some teaser images for the Demo