Hello there you wonderful and super wholesome people!

Another month, another week, another progress update!

First I want to say thank you to the insane ammounts of comments and messages I got on the 6 year anniversary post. It truly means the world to me that you guys are so understanding regarding the situation and the fact that you seem to like the idea of putting "Younger" Anna and Lena in the prequel makes me even happier. So thank you for that!

Now, let's talk about the games!

I'm still working on the next Chapter 2 beta and I'm making decent progress. In todays render you see Rei who decided to have breakfast with the MC again - I "skipped" the week of university and now the MC can spend his weekend with his favorite girls again. The situation with Rei is a special one since the MC is kinda leaning towards telling her about Anna, but not the full detail. I guess this is going to be a fine line he has to walk in general. He can tell Rei that Anna is a childhood friend, but maybe he shouldn't say how close they are? And then comes the question why Anna is not contacting Rei more often. Or maybe they talk regularly and Rei doesn't seem to mind not sharing it - I mean, why should she, it's not like she has any idea that the MC, Sabrina and Lea know her. It's all pretty mysterious but one thing I can promise you is that the outcome will be positive. That is also the case for the big reveal that is about to happen at the end of this chapter - It won't be as big as the Rei thing, but you guys will probably still say "Whoa. Cool. And fuck you for stopping there." You know I love to do these things.

I also put a decent amount of effort into Chapter 4 and MNF2 again. I really want to release the first playable version for My New Family 2 this year and the good thing is, no matter what I'll use to make the renders, it won't take long compared to the renders I have to make for MNM. Still, I owe you guys previews etc and I promise I will deliver them. The same goes for some Chapter 4 stuff, but I already talked about all of that in the anniversary post. For now the plan is to use Anna and Lena with a lot of modifications for the prequel and the other characters that an awesome dev ( Terminator ) made will be put on hold at the moment. I don't have a definitive timeframe on how long I'll wait, just that using these characters for the main game will be my absolute last straw, if everything else fails. Like I said in the post, it's a very personal decision. Still, writing on Chapter 4 goes super smooth right now and the script will most likely be done this year, which only leaves rendering open to me.

And I feel like thats it for now, people. Thank you so so much again for all the comments on yesterdays post. You guys truly are amazing and I'm forever grateful to you people for keeping me floatin'. If anything new comes up I'll let you guys know, until then, stay awesome!

Amelie... Being kinda cute...

I feel like we haven't seen much of the other blonde devil yet, so I wanted too give her a render again! This time she is just sitting on a couch in what looks like very comfy attire. I wonder why she is shrugging like that. Maybe the MC said something she doesn't have an answer too?

Hope you guys like the render of the cute blonde!

Jesus Christ...It feels like it has only been a few days since I made that post in 2024. But six years ago today, on August 31st 2019, I posted the first playable version of My New Family on the internet.

So it's going to be this kind of post. The renders for this week will follow later and it's totally fine if you don't want to continue reading from here! Thank you for being a part of this community anyway!

Well...Six years...

I'm always happy to think back. But the last anniversary was already in a pretty dire mood - the wound that my stuff has been taken from me was still fresh, at least to me. Now we have the 2nd year in a row where I still don't have anything back. Neither my beloved assets, nor any of my hardware. Not even a freakin' laptop that didn't contain anything, since it was freshly formatted. Nothing...

But I don't want to sound too depressing in this post. With the release of the prequel earlier this year and the insane amount of support of you guys, I was able to stay on track. Still, I'm wondering how much would be different if I had my stuff back. I can see it with the numbers, that they are dwindling, that less and less people stay because the game they wanted to continue to play is currently not really progressing. And again, I totally understand that. If I was on the other end I would have probably done the same. Moral support yes, financially supporting someone that can't deliver what you are here for? Maybe not so much.

But it was never about the money to me personally. I love what I started with My New Family. The game that started it all for me. From being unemployed, at the brink of poverty, to someone that is able to do this work as their main source of income. My life became better, my life has a purpose again. This might sound a little too extreme but it's true. The reason why I'm still here and didn't give up after what happened to me almost two years ago is the person reading this post right now. You people are giving me the biggest positivity I ever had in my life. I can keep going because I know there are people out there who want to read and play what I create.

So these posts are mainly for you, the players and the community. The people that were there when I released the first alpha, only to a few on the very small Discord server back then, to the person who only discovered my games yesterday. Everyone of you, no matter where you come from, if you are a pirate who never wants to pay a dime for these games, to the people that decide to support me in multiple ways, even financially, you all are amazing. Like I said, I never started to make these games for the money. I wanted to do something with my time and never would I have thought it would be the center of everything for me now.

Six years is a long, long time. So I want to use this post to not only talk about the past, but also a possible future. It's something I hinted about a few times but before I tell and show you what I mean, I want to clarify something, and I think most of you won't be happy about that.

As some of you might remember, I got some amazing help regarding the recreation of the main cast of My New Memories. The thing is...Whatever I tried, no matter which angle I looked at them or how much effort I put into them to make them look more like their originals... They just aren't the originals. That's why I think that I'm not going to use them for Chapter 4, at least for now. I know this might be super disappointing to you people but I have a different suggestion, a different approach, I guess.

I know that the prequel is liked by a lot of you and I know that some don't care about it. But with the models I have so far, I was thinking about using them in the prequel eventually... And with those models I mean Anna and Lena. Those two would make sense to appear in the prequel at one point, and I think with the changes I made to the recreation, they would "fit" in there, since I made them look younger than their originals. I will give you a comparison for Anna below.

This is Anna how you remember her from My New Memories.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/YHYeHmXo

And this is the copy , using the recreated model Terminator made and then altered by me to fit my style a little more and I Made her younger, so she fits the university theme more...

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rdPmncVE

The difference is huge, I know, especially in terms of skin color etc. But...Yeah. That is my plan. I really, really want to hear what you guys think about that, so don't hesitate to message me here, say something in the comments or talk to me on Discord!

Of course my main goal is still to get all my stuff back, especially my character assets. This is the single most important goal in my life right now, to do everything I can, no matter what it takes, to get these things back. Sadly, I'm at the mercy of the german law here, and the law is slow...Painfully slow, to be honest. Two years with no charges being pressed or a court hearing coming, getting nothing but silence from the state attorney, no matter what we do...It's frustrating. And we can't even sue them for anything yet, because the excuse right now can always be "We are heavily understaffed and there is a lot to do". I don't know how difficult it is to check an external SSD as a state attorney and say "Yes, these characters are fine and those assets are needed for work" or "No, they are not fine", so we can proceed to get a judge involved.

All in all...I'm happier than I was last year, I think. I'm still struggling a lot mentally, especially when I see the decline on every end, but it's definitely better than last year. I'm hoping and praying ( and I hope you keep me in your prayers too if you are religious ) that this situation will be solved this year eventually, so that I can get my beloved characters back. Because I think thats the main issue right now - That I love these characters so much that I can't replace them just like that. I just can't. And I'm really, really sorry for that, like I said above. This is totally only on me and I can fully understand if you're thinking "Stop being such an idiot and just use those models, we'll love them anyway!". But...I can't. And I have to live with that decision, at least for now. If it's 100% clear I'm not getting anything back then I will use them, that is a promise.

Okay, I think this post has been longer than I wanted it to be and I talked about a lot of things. If you stayed with me until here, Thank you. Thank you so so much for all the support, on this platform or on Discord or anywhere else. Like I said above, it's thanks to you guys I'm not giving up. Never.

Hello there you wonderful and very cute people!

Another week, another progress update!

This week will be the 6 year Anniversary of the first ever game release from me. On August 31st 2019 I posted My New Family 0.1 on the internet and I will have my usual anniversary post coming up on that day, so stay tuned for that!

Let's talk about the games!

As some of you may have noticed, the next Beta for the prequel released yesterday for $15 and higher tier supporters. If you want to play this beta right away, you can do so if you are in the right tier and join the Discord ( I can also DM you the links, though ). This beta will be available for $5 and higher tier supporters this week, most likely on wednesday ( same might go for Steam ). So far the feedback I have gotten made me pretty happy, since most of you amazing people are still confused what the hell might have happened between Bethany and Katharina. Katharina is also in todays progress update render, where she has a more serious talk with the MC regarding something he did the day before. She is not very happy with him but also not too strict, but it's still interesting to see Katharina like that ( especially if you consider what they did before if you followed a certain path with her ). I'm already working on the next part of Chapter 2 and I'm very happy it took me less than a month to release this beta. I'll try to release the next one even faster, I'll keep you posted regarding that!

While I finished up the latest beta, I also invested some more time into My New Family 2. It's interesting for me to write stuff about MNF2 without even having finalized what kind of engine I want to use for the characters and stuff. It's still up in the air, but writing up the story is usually more difficult than coming up with renders, at least for me. I started to write a cute morning dialogue with one of the tennants and the MC, but it's nothing concrete yet. More concrete stuff is in the works for My New Memories Chapter 4 though, but that would be too much of a spoiler. Let's just say it involves Sarah in a very interesting way ( again ). That's all I'm going to say.

I also got an email from my lawyer that we are trying to get a response from the state attorney again. I asked a few AIs ( chatgpt etc ) why the state attorneys are so slow here and the most common answer is "understaffed and too much to do". I feel like that is a super weak excuse for something that happened almost 2 years ago, but okay. I'll keep you guys posted on that.

And I think thats it for now, guys. If anything new comes up I'll let you guys know asap. Until then, enjoy the beta if you are a supporter and stay awesome!