A New Direction

So, it’s been awhile, hasn’t it?

My month off had it’s ups and downs, and it was a nice break. Mental  healthcare is always a challenge, but I feel refreshed and more  importantly, I decided on a new direction for Bad Kitty Games. But  first, some other news.

Neko and I are moving to a larger house, so that Neko will have her  office space. This will also keep such things such as the  perpetually-backing-up sewer from being a factor in our lives. Whether  or not the new place will have it’s own quirks is a question- it’s an  even older home, but much better cared for than our current place. We  will be moving at the end of the month, and I promise that as soon as  we’re set up I’ll show you all around the new office.

So, the first big change- Bad Kitty Games is no longer holding  ourselves to update deadline. We all have other things going on, our own  challenges, and nobody deserves to have their mental health put at  risk. That goes for me and every other member of the team. What we are  going to do instead is push a backer update every month. Like the  mini-updates, these are meant to be not-necessarily-complete previews of  what we’ve done. And, when we feel good about one of these updates to  make it a release, it will come out to the public two weeks later, as  usual.

If you’re concerned about schedule slip because of this, don’t worry.  We will still be working at our usual pace, just no longer rushing or  crunching for deadlines. I feel that by this point, we’ve proven that we  are in it to win it, and so you can rely on us to keep pushing out new  content at a decent pace. If an update takes two months, like we’ve been  doing, great! If it takes three or four months, also great. Our new  policy is that it is no longer acceptable to put your health and  wellbeing at risk for a deadline. Similarly, it is no longer acceptable  to justify putting something “bad” in the game for a deadline, either,  which I feel I’ve been guilty of doing.

In a similar vein, “quests” are no longer going to be our benchmark  for progress. All progress is good progress, and even if we publish an  update exclusively of, say, sex scenes and bug fixes, that still counts.  So there is a possibility that you might get an update of nothing but  new sex scenes, or dialogue, or other side content.

I’m not going to lie, this is going to delay the end of HC and the  start of ILTSDK. But that’s okay- Harem Collector brought this community  together and helped us get to where we are. HC and HC fans deserve  better than for us to rush through the ending just to satisfy an  arbitrary deadline I set a year ago.

And to be perfectly honest, I wouldn’t be comfortable making these  changes except for how fantastic our community has been throughout this  whole odyssey. You guys have been great, and I hope everyone will keep  in mind that I’m doing what I feel is best for not only the team but for  the quality of the game overall.

There may be more changes coming as we go, but the benefit of being  small and scrappy like we are is that the whole team can adapt and  overcome any challenge that comes our way. Thank you for believing in  us, and I’ll do my level best to make sure that your faith does not go  unrewarded.