Future Projects - Maids & Masters Guide Public Poll
As I get into the meat of Maids & Masters v1.0, I think it's time to start talking about what comes after Maids & Masters.
The obvious thing is Precious Kouhai, but since that project has so far only received updates in a "there otherwise won't be an update this month so here's two scenes made in a week" kind of way, that's probably only going to get two or three proper updates before it's done.
That being the case, I figure it's time to ask you a question about something that a lot of you have been asking me for - a full walk-through guide for Maids & Masters.
For the sake of clarity: this is mostly just an info-gathering poll. This won't decide whether or not the guide gets made (though there will be a future Patron-only poll that will), this is just to give me a better idea of how much interest there actually is in a guide.
This also wouldn't just be a .txt with a couple lines of extra guidance for each quest and how to get trophies, either. If you're old enough to remember things like the Prima Strategy Guides, that's the sort of thing I'd be looking to make. An in-depth PDF with commentary, pictures, and laid-out mechanical insight for literally every part of the game, complete with indexes of when the Maids learn their skills, inter-document links to relevant pages, and enemy stat blocks.
Something that in-depth would obviously take me weeks, if not months of work to complete (especially being made alongside Precious Kouhai), which means it would be a paid product. Patrons of the Supporter tier or higher (or who have lifetime support over $10, though you'd need to request it) would get it for free, but you'd otherwise need to buy it, either from here or on itch (the guide replacing early access on itch).
As much as I'd like to give it away, keeping myself alive is expensive, and this is what I do for a living. I couldn't afford to put months of work into something that wouldn't provide income, especially when my income is already so low.
So, knowing all that, where do you stand on the idea of a guide for Maids & Masters?
Comments (2)
I would definitely pay for a Guide. I have been a supporter for quite some time, going with the development and gotten quite attached to the girls, so i will be sad if the game ends, but well, every road comes to an end some day. The point being, i think i surely missed a lot of content. For example, i was not able to get iris by my side, and there where many scenes, dialogues etc. where it was far from obvious which answer would get you what. So its equally hard to discern what you would would have needed to do different in past choices etc. in order to achieve a certain goal. For example i noticed the way to the love shack quite late in the game. The story with the succubus on top of fekhacht was another thing i did very late because after the first scene on top of the tower would have never imagined that there would be anything left to do. Then cam the freeze and i had to wait for the next haunt season in order to complete this. So i guess a guide from the dev himself (who mus know all the mechanics and outcomes) would complete my expierience, as i would be able to retrace my steps and perhaps do some things different to achieve a better outcome.
Hey, been following for a while, been a paid supporter before as well, I'm excited to see the project come out! I'm not a big fan of Precious Kouhai but I wish you the best for this one ;) That being said, I wouldn't pay for a guide. I like to think these kind of things can be community-made, even if I understand the vision you have for a complete doc, if it doesn't come with something extra such as illustrations, gallery code or something, I wouldn't spare a coin. I would also be much more interested in seeing your future works than seeing you spend so much time on something I would consider trivial like a guide. KIU