Plans for the near future

A new year has begun and with it I have new plans for the near future.

My Patreon page was like a separate project. I liked writing posts, coming up with topics, preparing images, replying to comments, preparing new banners (almost) every year, I was happy with the chibi-Rodinka in the tiers... for me my page was a source of pride. If someone asked me what I did for a living, I could drop a link to that page.

After the ban many years of work were gone, your comments were gone (I don't know if you noticed, but sometimes Rodinka was praised with the same words that you praised me), my correspondence with some developers, people who reported bugs, and just players who gave good advice was gone.

But there's still the game. My main, major and only project. I have invested, am investing and will continue to invest much more labor in it than in some page with posts. But still, in my eyes, the game doesn't look as presentable as a page on Patreon.

It lacks neatness, uniformity of solutions and style, proper presentation of itself to the player.

I started making the game without any experience at all, so the initial decisions, images and text were of low quality. And it just so happens that this is what the game meets the players with. If the page on the patreon welcomed the current state of the game, the game itself welcomes my inexperience.

I want to change that!

I want the game to feel smooth, uniform, stylistically identical!

I want to bring the game to a common denominator!

- Most of all I want to draw a beautiful blowjob! (I don't know if you realized, but I like oral caresses, want it to be perfect for every situation)

- I want to draw a handjob! (the easiest way to satisfy a man, and Rodinka hardly ever resorts to it, and there are so many mini-events I can do with it)

- I want to update all the remaining heroine sprites! (make Rodinka look beautiful from the beginning to the end so people aren't surprised by the abrupt change in style in episode five)

- I want to update the images to a modern level. Weenie fingers, lack of reflexes, weird proportions, poor perspective all depress me in the old images.

- I want to give all the miniatures roughly the same rectangular shape. So that they fill a significant portion of the screen, and the outlines don't create too sharp corners.

- I want to improve all the points where players usually get stuck! To give additional explanations of what to do, better direction and narration.

- I want character movements in cut-scenes to not be abrupt, I want large amounts of script to not be duplicated multiple times in the game, I want attenuations/manifestations, playing sounds and line appearance to be in one standard, I want the possibility of gameplay breakdowns to be minimal.

- I want the text to not be redundant, fit the situations, and not seem snaggy/incorrect/ugly, in my subjective opinion of course.

- I want a naked or semi-naked heroine back on the main menu! (well really, she is the main character, she should meet the player in the main menu and with her nakedness promise a fun erotic adventure).

- I want to add auto-save!

I want to make a base in which I will be confident, in which I will not doubt, with which I can make a bold leap into a bright future. (sounds tacky, I know it myself, but I have no shame)

I want a lot of things. And I will gradually achieve it.

Already now I'm finalizing text and script improvements for the second episode. While you're unlikely to notice a difference, the game experience in Road of Shame will be better and up to my current standards.

an example of how I've made the road of shame simpler

This is what I want at the moment and have already started doing.

Originally the post consisted of whining and negativity, but now I have a positive mood, a clear understanding of what needs to be improved, and a clear vision of what I want the game to be.

Not a page on Patreon. Not a page on Boosty. Not a page on pixivFANBOX.

The game itself.