Cosplay Cafe Roadmap Post

Okay, I kept putting this off since I wanted to include an image...but Rikka's redesign has been fighting me. Today alone, I've redone her hair in this rough-sketch 4 times -_-. And yes, it's a VERY rough sketch, so don't worry too much that it looks like ass...I promise it will be better by the time I'm actually done with it. This particular image is worse than most even in this form, since straight-on images tend to look SUPER flat without color/shading.

Anyway, discussing the art piece isn't the point of this post, giving you some idea what development of Cosplay Cafe will look like going forward is! On that note, let's get on with doing that.

As with the DoL roadmap, I'm first going to outline what the long-term goals are supposed to look like regarding The Sexy Cosplay Cafe. While I actually made the original design expandable, the following are the core minimum goals for the end product:

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4 primary girls, each with roughly 30-40 unique hand-drawn images.

Endings for each girl, including combination endings for at least a few threesome combinations + a harem ending

Finish up with the return of the 'owner' whom will trigger those endings based on the Chaos Level of the Cafe and the various relationships. 

Several one-off encounters with additional girls (sales clerks, friends of the various girls, the owner, etc.)

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This is the BARE MINIMUM for me to consider the game complete...and honestly even that is only half of the original design. The earliest, least comprehensive, point at which I could call it a complete game. Thus far, 3 of the girls have reached roughly 40% completion. Though, I'd like to replace the art of two of them with better versions at some point. The next update will bring the fourth girl up to roughly the same level, bringing the total completion level of the game up to maybe 30%. 

Having formally outlined that for the first time...I've got to admit that I'm struggling to keep going with what amounts to two simultaneous full-scale development projects. Yes, DoL is simpler as I don't need to make the art myself, but it actually has a similar amount of content in it's updates as Cosplay Cafe...and it updates every month. As such, update for Cosplay Cafe are going to continue moving at something of a crawl, unless I can hit that $500 goal that will let me bring an actual artist on-board to take some of the load off. 

Currently, I'm hoping to have one more Cosplay Cafe release this year, focused on bringing Rikka up to the same rough completion level as Alice, Mira, and Serena. However, even that is subject to question depending on if DoL reaches it's own completion this year. Depending on how that goes, there may be a month where I don't work on Cosplay Cafe due to doubling up with DoL and a follow up game in a single month. That could push any Cosplay Cafe update clear into next January. Hopefully not, and I'll be aiming to shorten the update time as much as possible while still providing meaningful content at current-or-better quality...but only time will tell. 

Anyway...that about all I have to say about that. Unlike DoL, development on Cosplay Cafe is currently grinding along slowly enough that there just ins't a ton to discuss...