A Tinier Furry In A Huger World Dev Blog - Justifications, Tia Stuff, Polls

Hello everyone!

First things first, since I've been talking about this for a while - the next preview of Tinier Furry In A Huger World will be dropping on October 30th. I don't have a solid time for this yet ... and probably won't. As usual, it'll be fairly late into the night, because, as usual, I'll be working on it until the last minute to cram as much shit in there as possible.

So, yeah! This is going to be a long Patreon post. If you're only here to know when the update will be dropping, then, again, it'll be October 30th! The rest of this is just going to be me prattling on about this and that. But who knows? It might be interesting! Maybe.

Monthly Schedule/Justifications
This month has genuinely been one of the ... healthiest feeling months of my life for a good while, as in, I'm slowly but surely starting to achieve a good and healthy work/life balance. I'm still working my butt off but not having to crunch on game dev every fortnight has led to me feeling less like a wrung-out sponge.

Sadly this does make game updates or at least releases a little slower, but, at the end of the day, I think that's okay. I would rather be healthier mentally than rush my game - it'll lead to a better product at the end of the day. I'm a solo developer and I have fifty other paid commitments on the side that I'm working on in the form of commissions and stuff. I work plenty and I put food on my table as a result. Hooray!

My initial worry in slipping off into a monthly schedule was that I would appear lazy, or that the content wouldn't be sufficient. At the end of the day, though, I put out like, 50,000+ words of stuff on here every month between interactive and commissions at the rate that I'm going. This is a small novel's worth of content every month. I think, in the grand scheme of things, that's pretty good ... and definitely not lazy.

I also don't feel lazy, so ... that's good! I feel very productive. Finally being able to tend to my mounting backlog at a fairly consistent rate has made me feel successful, and ... feeling successful leads to boundless creativity! Hooray!

At first, I had typed out a huge ramble about all of this - with a whole bunch of justifications crammed in there and a whole bunch of word math - but I've decided to leave it at this. Monthly schedule is good for me. Very productive. Content is still on point, I think. If you'd like to hear more about it - and why slipping onto monthly schedule makes sense - then I can post the huge big thing I wrote (I still have it saved in drafts) if there's a huge demand for a full explanation.

Personally, though, I'd rather just summarize and say - the content is more complicated. The scenes are much longer. There's a lot more going on behind the scenes in terms of code, at least, for someone who only learned to 'code' a couple of years ago. There's a lot more build up and background. On the whole, it's a more complicated project. When it's done, I'll poll and ask if people want me to go on to develop part two, or ... move onto something simpler that I can release on a fortnightly schedule comfortably. Until it's done, though, I'm going to be working on it at this rate ...

... and I also want to say that I have a ton of confidence in this project. I am firing on all cylinders with it. I want it to be the best example of what I can do, so ... bear with me for a few months while I get it done. As always, I'll post my (hopefully bountiful) progress ... just, I'll be doing it monthly for a little bit.

That's it for this part!

Tia
Tia has gone into full development this week, which means that her scenes are being wrote and put together and that's super cool.

There will be four endings:

Unaware paws
Unaware unbirth
Unaware anal vore
Aware anal vore

Unlike Wilson, none of these will have specific rooms where you are entrapped, but, unlike Wilson (currently) her body will be pretty explorable. As for how the unaware stuff works ... well, she isn't wearing pants. Some anthros don't wear pants! Nudist furs are accepted in Hellev. So what's gonna happen when she sits on you? Or wriggles her hips the wrong way when you're climbing up her?

I said it up above, but this'll be out late night October 30th. Just in time for Halloween. It won't be spooky, but, tigers are orange and black ... and those are Halloween colors, right?

Polls
I'll start polls for November's content after the weekend. I imagine that our bard will win, but, polls are fun, so, why not run them again?

You might remember a couple of months ago when I polled Gianna that I mentioned a basement with a feral creature in it that would have some content and a mini quest and such. This will be coming up again soon. I'm going to poll whether or not people would like me to spend a month's development time on it at some point, or whether people would prefer for me to cut it from the game entirely.

That's about it in terms of polls. Might be a surprise one at some point. Who knows?

And also, that's about it for this post, actually. That wasn't as boring as I thought! Cutting out that huge rant I wrote probably helped.

I'll have another one up in a couple of minutes with a novel chapter!