Update/Big Picture Direction

At the moment I'm working on Kingdom Harem v0.7.0 as well my new adult visual novel which has been briefly mentioned in an earlier post.  

I'll be releasing the teaser for this next visual novel before Kingdom Harem is finished.

Some things about the next one:

Fantasy - Like Kingdom Harem the setting will be fantasy.  However, this world will be mostly unknown to travelers compared to the world of Kingdom Harem which consists of well established borders, territories, and trade routes other than the Dark forest.  The story will also take place more as a journey with stops along the way.  This will allow the player to meet many different creatures, attractive women, and other characters as well as stay in many very different places with distinct emotional "feels".

2D Hand Drawn - It will use 2D hand drawn art.  The style of the characters will be similar to "Jab comix" if you've ever read those.  But not exactly Jab's style as I've been experimenting with lines styles, shading methods, and proportions and have arrived at my own preferences.  This is, at least for me, a more appealing art style than honey select.  It also offers near infinite freedom to create any kind of monster girl, character, or animation. Things that I struggled to do well in Honey select I'll be able to more easily create with a hand drawn style, such as, spit, sticky fluids ;) , squishy flesh, and general anatomy.

Main Character - The MC will be more morally ambiguous from the start, leaving it to the player to decide what kind of decisions they want to make.  Kingdom Harem has some of this style of decision making.

No Sand Box - I've decided to focus even more time and effort on the story, characters, and choices as oppose to having any sandbox for this next project.   One conclusion that I've come to lately, is that sandbox works better for short story segments as oppose to longer ones.  This is because with longer story segments the mind gets use to content being presented in that format and it feels jarring when the format suddenly changes to being in a sandbox.  I also think the most important element of sandbox is meaningful and interesting choices which I will have in the this next project (name to be announced when the teaser comes out).  Sandbox is good for having clean breakpoints between story pieces where you can be comfortable taking a break and coming back to it later.  This benefit of having a nice place to take a break will be carried over simply by having chapters in this next visual novel.

Writing/Pacing/Coding/Etc. - I've improved in many aspects of creation, writing and dialogue especially.  This is another big reason for completing Kingdom Harem and starting on a fresh new project.

Characters - I know some people have really fallen in love with and like the characters of Kingdom Harem.  I may have the player come across versions of these characters in the next game for those who have played and enjoyed Kingdom Harem.  But this next project will have many new and interesting characters such as monster girls, witches, trolls, goblins, wolf-girls, and some characters from classic fairy tales.

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Kingdom Harem - At the same time as working on setting up this new world, I'm making sure KH has a good, nice and satisfying finish not only for all the main character storylines but for the bigger story arc as well.

Update (7/5/2021):

Here is a character I drew to show the character style I'm going with for this next project, at least for a human.  Sex scenes will be animated.  I may make slight improvements/adjustments to the style before the initial release and I'm still nailing down exactly how the background art will look.