Published: July 13th 2021, 12:01:39 pm
Hello. I think I have some explaining to do, don't I?
You know that thing where you forgot to text someone back and you find that message two weeks later and now it's too late to reply so you keep ghosting them? That's kinda what I did here.
I'm gonna be honest with you all: Miss-Adventures majorly overwhelmed me. I spoke about that in my last post if you want to read that back. The code got to a point where it's so incredibly messy and complicated that I was just incredibly overwhelmed. The new dating system works great in theory but in reality it made everything so overly messy and hard to keep track of with all the different types of girls. This would've been fine if I used it from the start, but I didn't. I implemented it into an already existing game and that created this sort of frankenstein code. It works surprisingly well, I'm not gonna lie. I expected it to be worse, but bugfixing this is just pure hell. When I released the latest version and bug reports started coming in, I kind of just shut down. I tried many days but fixing one bug just created another most of the time.
My personal life also took a weird turn in february. It's a good turn, don't worry. I can't really say much as I like my privacy but I was really focussed on other things and I won't lie: I kind of purposely forgot about MAiH.
So where do we go from here? I'm not entirely sure. I really miss working on celeb games but I am really really tired of MAiH. I have had this great other idea for a year now and I made an intro for it but I kept feeling guilty whenever I work on it because it feels like I'm abandoning MAiH. But I think that is what I'm going to do, for now! I really want to start on this new project and use all the things I learned in miss-adventures to make this amazing from the start. It will have less celebrities but way more actual gameplay and many more options, better relationship building, RPG style character building etc. I have literally a head running over with ideas to the point I lay awake entire nights just thinking up more stuff to put in this barely existing game. It has to come out.
As for MAiH, I might go back to it once I've worked on the new game for a while. I might do small bugfixes whenever a bolt of code-inspiration hits me. I might redo the entire game someday with what I've learned from this new project and only recycle the writing with entirely new code.
But for now, I really need an official break from it, not the ashamed one I've had. I've been really scared to tell you that but there it is. Today I start working on my new project, so I will be making changes to the Patreon based on that. Tiers will change, the name will change, lots of things will change.
For anyone that has kept subscribing, thanks. I hope it was obvious enough that I wasn't active anymore and you subscribed regardless of that to get access to the available codes or to just support me. I've had no angry messages so I guess that's the case. If anyone does feel wronged, I am very sorry.
I will try and make a tech demo of the new game ASAP and share it with everyone so you can see what I'm working on. I truly hope everyone is as excited for this as I am.
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On another note, if anyone is an experienced Twine dev and wants to have access to the MAiH files including all the pictures etc so they can work on it, send me a message and we can talk. I'd love for someone to build upon it while I work on the other project and would love to be involved as well. We can brainstorm together and I can help with stuff, but it's just become too much to bear alone honestly.
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Many thanks for (hopefully) understanding. Love you all :)