Upcoming content

At this time, I consider the game to be just about finished in terms of writing and content. The only scenes missing are the lewd scene for getting high love with Jasmine, which is waiting on art, and a couple other scenes relating to that one. I don't have a sketch to share for that scene, but I have artists working on other scenes as well. Here's a progress sketch for the Houndoom den:

The artist made that based on this doodle I sent him:

I sort of considered putting that doodle into the game as a placeholder but I thought that might be a little too silly. The Houndoom den has been a long time coming, as it was written fairly early into development and I knew I'd never be able to find a stock photo that fit. 

Meanwhile, I have another artist working on replacing the art for the lewd scenes with Cynthia. Here's some more sketches.

Art takes time and I'm not one to rush anybody. If I had an unlimited budget I would see about replacing all those stock photos with actual backgrounds, but the game has over a hundred background images and that's just way too much to commission. I might see about commissioning some original sprites for the major characters, but that's also a lot of money to spend and I don't feel that the game needs them in order to be enjoyable. I am a writer, primarily, so having the game be well written is enough for me. Maybe if I had like a thousand backers on patreon/subscribestar/whatever it would be doable, but then I'd run the risk of Big N sending in the lawyers to shut me down... =\

Anyway, while all that art is being worked on, I've started working on the next game. Here is a (very) early preview:

I anticipate it'll be at least a few months before the next game is in a playable alpha state. What I'll probably do is host it on Mega first and post a link to it here (maybe on twitter too?) to get some early feedback, and then give it its own itch.io page once it's mostly finished. I got some invaluable feedback for Olivine Lights in the first couple months after posting Alpha 1.0, but I think I posted it way too soon.