As said during the Easter announcement, I’m not currently working on a new Steam project. With everything that’s going on all over the world, I do feel down.
I rather stop releasing “game” (Visual Novel-like) every month and take a break from development so I can improve my writing.
There is also the fact that, let’s be honest here, I keep doing remake after remake after remake without being satisfied of the results, and I got mixed reviews because of that.
I feel like I want to please everyone, while doing something good, and I keep failing. Nothing seems good enough.
I’m pretty sure to have already explained but I barely got a profit from everything released until now. Therefore, I cannot pay for marketing advertisements, nor for artists/programmers/musicians to do a “real, professional” visual novel with breathtaking Animé graphics, voice acting, and custom music. Even if I had such money to spend, nothing I had written in my short stories is “good enough” for such a big project.
Thus I want to improve, write better things, but I keep getting “mental blocks”. I kept thinking about the “video game” aspect, the images, the music needed for it to “sell” on Steam. So the idea of writing a full-length novel comes to mind instead.
In a way, it’s easier. I only got the “text” to deal with. No search for Creative Commons resources I can use, which engine should be used, the process to put everything on Steam, etc.
Yeah, there still the “how to sell?” aspect (with an editor? self-edition?), but I only got to manage that once the manuscript is finished.
To conclude, right now, I’m working on a full-length novel of “Les 4 Alice” (with another title) with more of everything. More text, more character development, etc. I’m only on the “scenario plan” phase, where I resume in detail what would happen in each chapter, but it’s going well. Chaps 1-3 are done.
That’s why I’m not as present on Steam as the usual. There is still the possibility of another collab with Kooly From Paris but that’s months away.
Anyway, Happy Gaming!