I received a couple of DM's here or there to create a discord server because they didn't see it on my Subscribestar profile and they would love to join, so I think it's best to make a post about this so there is no confusion etc.
I do have a discord server, but it's a private subscriber only server that I'm very much active on. But you can only join, once you become a subscriber at any tier.
There are 2 simple reasons why it's private.
1. This is an adult game meant for adults only, I don't want anyone under age joining my server.
2. Trolls / spam. Some people have way too much time on their hands to harass, attack or just blatantly spam, communities and developers because of content they don't agree with.
When I first started writing The Last Challenge, I think I made a mistake how I named and formatted everything, and with it I think I made a lot of confusion around my game.
The industry standard with AVNs somehow became that Episodes or Chapters are now called season for whatever fucking reason, I truly don’t understand this. Like are we making a fucking game or a TV show? you know whatever, maybe I’m the stupid one here, anyway I named mine chapters but I’m changing that.
This is something I don’t often do. I will just do whatever the fuck everyone else does. Less headache for me, less headache for you.
Originally, I named my game The Last Challenge which was followed by the Chapter number and then name and then the version of it. So, it looked like this “The Last Challenge Chapter 1 – Homecoming. v1.0 And this was supposed to be the full first chapter / episode of the story. But this is creating a ton of confusion, since there are games out there with 20+ chapters and there is barely any sexual content in them, like there’s just a blowjob or the MC jacking off in the toilet lol. So naturally people see my chapter 1 and most of them don’t even bother to pirate it since they think that there’s no sex in this game. Lol
Anyway, today that all changes. I’m falling in line. I'm gonna be a good little developer, I’m just gonna do the same formatting other games do.
Starting from today here’s how things will look.
The name of my game, followed by the season, which is followed by the chapter number, which is followed by a letter (A, B, C, D) indicating the branched alternate story line based on choices, then the name of the chapter and finally the version number.
Here’s how the new formatting now looks.
The Last Challenge: Season 1
Chapter 1 -- Homecoming (v0.1.3)
Chapter 2a – Desert Rose (v0.2.0) – this is the currently available version that you can play.
Chapter 2b – Government Bidniss (v0.2.3) – this one is currently being worked on.
Chapter 2c – The Newtons (v0.2.8)
Chapter 2d – Payback (v0.3.0)
And then (these are the story line paths after the MC arrives home)
Chapter 3a – Party
Chapter 3b – Unforeseen Consequences
Chapter 3c – Crossroads
So on and so on. Note that chapter 3 names are not final except for the first one. I have no clue how many chapters the full season 1 will have because I just version numbered everything before, now I need to figure it out how to name them lol, but I estimate around 30-50 chapters each Season (because I'm counting the branched parallel chapters as well), we will see. Best answer to this is: as many as I need to tell the story I envisioned for each season.
I also mentioned that I will be releasing shorter updates more frequently, this is something I don’t want to do, but again I have to. The main reason is that there is a lot AVN’s getting released and a lot of them end up being abandoned. So naturally when a new developer goes without updates for more than six months most people jump to the conclusion that it's automatically abandoned. So I can’t just go and release a huge update once a year and expect to grow, and be able to afford new assets when my game is fairly new.
One other problem I’m having is that my game is extremely interactive and it branches like crazy, Chapter 2 has 3 more alternative story paths, on top of the one you just played in my last update. And all 4 of these paths run somewhat parallel with each other, and this means that the story is moving forward very slowly.
The other 3 parallel chapters are much shorter but it still takes me some time to develop it, since I don’t just change the clothes on my characters and render out the same damn render, I actually set you down another path where different things end up happening in totally new environments that I mostly build from scratch and you meet different characters entirely and all that good shit. Cuz this is how true branching with consequences should look like.
Of course, the MC arrives home at the end of each of these alternate chapters, but how he gets there and which women he will have sex scenes with differ.
In order to move the story forward faster, I will focus on fully developing one path at the time in the future. So, Chapter 1a – 2a - 3a 4a- 5a and so on until I reach the end of season 1. And then go back to 2b, 3b, 4b etc then 2c, 3c, 4c. This might sound very fucked up and scary for you now, like “oh no this game will never be finished” etc. Trust me it will, some chapters and story lines are shorter, some are longer you haven’t seen my full script, and you have no idea how this game works and connects and bounces between story lines until you play at least 6-7 more updates.
However, for now I’m forced to release the chapters parallelly. The next few updates will be Chapter 2B-C-D. The reason for this is that I can’t afford all the assets, that I need for chapter 3a, 4a and so on at this time. I talked about this before so I’m not gonna get into this again, you can read all about this in my previous post.
These chapters are not that long, mainly because I’m more focused on fully developing all menu items and background mechanics because my goal is to get this done and polished out as soon as possible, so the save files won’t break anymore with each update. And that’s my BIGGEST priority, your save files HAVE to be compatible with each update throughout the 5-7 seasons that I have planned for this game. But naturally these first few updates will break saves.
The first update that will come out quite soon, and it's called: Chapter 2b – Government Bidniss. And here are some new fancy screenshots from it. Let me know in the comments which screenshot you liked the most :P As always the full resolution images are posted on my Subscriber only Discord server.
Hope I didn’t confuse you too much with my rambling, anyway thank you for playing my game. Thank you if you are subscribed, if you haven’t subscribed already and if you can, please do so lol. If you can’t no problem, suggest my game to your friends, mom, dad, sister, cat, dog, goat spread the word on social media so more people can find it and hopefully come and support it, because I cannot finish this game without your help.
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