Delayed to 2013

So yeah, I made an internal deliberation.  No use killing myself to get Elspeth's Garden done when it's already outdated.  The graphics by now already lack polish (in today's constantly increasing standard) but I will still push through and use what I have to get it finished.  One thing I didn't want to compromise on was the story and writing.  Since my belief is if something is that good, it will warrant a remake anyway.  But the priority right now is just completion and recovering investment.  So I just hope people will find the game not too unattractive to still want to pay for it.  I definitely overstretched myself this time.

I mean, releasing this year?  Foggetaboutit.  Not when any "Best of 2012" will be a three-way battle between Katawa Shoujo (most popular VN), Analogue (most successful VN for any single creator), and Loren Amazon Princess (more RPG than VN, but still, basically the most technologically advanced and probably the most expensive Ren'Py game ever made).  With that kind of competition, I might as well get my magnum opus into the running next year instead.  Hopefully by next year everybody would have finished playing and reviewing those other games.  I for one will probably take a few weeks to play Loren RPG.

Which means, for the remainder of this year, I'll have more time to devote to pure hentai projects, which luckily, have their own audience and ecosystem (though it happens to involve more piracy sites).  For EVNs, it's still our monopoly in that genre.  But now, instead of taking 6 hours to stitch a single animation effects filmstrip in 8 directions, it takes 6 hours to direct a single hentai sequence (with complete pans/zooms and cut-ins).  I need more time.