Devlog: About the game's pace

Hello everyone, and welcome to a quick devlog!

Over the last few updates, I've noticed some feedback about the game's pace. More specifically, about the way the game is becoming slower now than it was before.

I considered making a poll about that, but decided not to, for a very simple reason: because the way I'm doing it is deliberate, and I would probably have ended up ignoring the poll's results if they didn't agree with me.

So, instead of asking for your opinion on that part, I chose to explain my intention.

What I called Part 1 of the game covers Chapters 1 to 18 (for a total of 19 chapters, including chapter 5.5). This part of the game was relatively fast paced for a very simple reason: I needed it to be fast to open up more possibilities.

Part 2, which we're in at the time, needed things to be stable before I could start it. That included, for example, having Nathan get rid of condoms, in order to be able to have interludes including him, without creating incoherent story beats.

But my goal for Part 2 is to display Laura getting comfortable in her role as a hotwife. That means exploring new things, yes, but also showing how she gets comfortable in her relationships with the bulls, and how she starts enjoying experimenting with them.

This is a deliberately slower pace than Part 1 because, in my opinion, that's how it should be (and often is) in these situations. Once the novelty of sleeping with other men has passed, couples enter a phase in which they explore kinks, and ways to enjoy them.

That is my goal for Part 2: to play with kinks, and the way I'm displaying them to you, the player/main character. I try to have each chapter be a variation on that, while displaying Laura getting more and more comfortable.

And all of that will ultimately lead to Part 3, which I often jokingly call "The Slut Era", in which Laura will start having wilder encounters. But to setup that, I have to start by showing her getting comfortable, and ready to experiment.

These things are often, in my opinion, lacking in Netorase works. Most of them display a slope so slippery that they make girls go from "I never slept with another man" to "I'm getting gangbanged with a bukkake" in 2 weeks, which is something I absolutely want to avoid. My goal has always been to display a relatively realistic and health netorase/hotwife relationship, and that kind of relationship requires time, slow buildup, and patience (and also communication, never forget communication).

Some of these feedback also mentioned the money element. Most notably, the fact that, now that I'm getting paid for this game, and now that it's my full-time job, I'm trying to milt it as best as I can.

The reality is that, while I don't think that's the case, I can't guarantee it isn't. Being able to live developing a game is a literal dream of mine, and even if I try to not let it affect my work, I cannot be sure it isn't the case.

That being said, in my opinion, I'm not making the game slower to get more money, but I'm able to make it slow because I'm getting money. It allows me to make the game larger, and to explore more kinks, without any sense of urgency.

In conclusion, the pacing of the game will probably stay the same. I will, nevertheless, try to address the perception of slowness, maybe by having actual progress being made a bit more often, while being maybe a bit smaller, in order not to have the game feel stagnant.

As often, I'd love to hear your feedback on all of that. Your opinion is important to me, even though I sometimes decide to ignore it because I think it will make the game better in the long run. 😉

Have a good day everyone!