Corporate Development Memo 6/9/2024

Hi everyone!

I was thinking of doing a public post, but I was genuinely struggling to put together a long post (especially finding sub path non-adult images, Kane is always naked so it's pretty hard, haha!) after a very long one last week, so I decided to put it off for a few more weeks -- perhaps after I have a bit of the tweaked narrative written out. I'll likely do that kind of soon though...

I am now at 1288 renders -- I am trying to maintain a reasonable pace of 14 renders a day/100ish a week if possible. I do tend to speed up as I get closer to the end, but given my overall free time, I think this is about the most reasonable pace I can do week to week. I have talked to a lot of other devs about their overall speed and kind of feel like I wish I could be even faster, but I also know I'm doing a lot of consistent work week after week.

I just went through this mental exercise this week because I saw two devs I like getting attacked kind of hard about their workload recently. So...I kind of looked at myself and how I've been working all the episodes, etc. After looking at it, I feel like I've been pretty consistent...certainly I can laugh now at how long I took to do Episode 1 (437 renders and it took me about ten weeks/70 days or maybe 6ish renders a day, I do about 1000 renders now in that time)

I've always felt the strength and weakness of KG is the same thing -- a lot of branching paths/choices which I hope give a real sense of choice, but it can also make some players that only play one path/one style get a shorter experience because they don't see all the content. I can't really solve that issue for players that play that specific way. I also struggle with trying to have very deep character development because of the amount of paths too. I'll always do my best and keep at it, but these are the kind of high level 40,000 ft thought processes that dominate my creative struggles. (characters are easy to write, just making it all fit well, etc.)

I imagine Part I (which was I think 3700 renders, or definitely over 3500 from memory?) of Episode 8 as one linear path with minor choices/tweaks for just sex scenes would be VERY long but it would lose a lot too.   

I would say I am getting closer to about the halfway point of my outline for Part 2. Maybe another 1-2 weeks. The halfway point is where everyone is basically "set" in place after side branch activities and now the following will kind of happen -- 1) the dom path Kane will attend a function with VIPs and kind of formally start the show and 2) the sub path formally starts grading/testing themselves with different women/VIPs and points start to come into play. Of course, the paths are different and points will matter in different ways to each path. Dom Kane is mostly being judged on his ability to ensure VIPs are happy with his four females and himself (if he is formally helping the show). Sub Kane will be graded on performance to the satisfaction of VIPs/Mistresses/staff depending what the goals are, etc.

My computer is coming very soon. My purse was angry at me this past month because I bought that computer, plus I bought my fiance (well maybe future father heh) and father a special gift for Father's Day to travel and see the NBA Finals for one of the games this coming week. Flights, tickets, hotel, everything. So I hope they'll bond even more out there. I even had a VERY hard time writing a scene for Part 2 where Celeste is quite cruel to her father because I adore my own...I would die for him even though I know he would never let me, etc. I think I have mentioned this on Discord but on my evil scale rating, I actually have Celeste slightly right of Juliette. (more evil)

This week I will post some sub poll scenarios, and I am doing a little work on the sub path, and one final branch for the dom side which is more towards a good Kane. So trying to get to another milestone mark (about 1,500 renders is my guess) this month and feel good about anothr milestone met.

Thank you all for the well wishes/congratulations on my engagement both here and in DMs. I know this is just a porn game in the end, but I feel very lucky and grateful that I get the chance to do this as a passion project. I have always been honest about saying that this wasn't my first choice of a story to write out of the four I had in mind, but now...I feel very differently. This was the right story to do first, and I'm really happy and appreciative of being able to wake up every day and have this creative process as part of my life right now.

Thank you all :)