Hoping for a Christmas Release

There's an age old question in the adult game community. "How's your health?" There's a reason for this question. It's the excuse people use to stop making a game they no longer have the passion for. Maybe they just don't care. Maybe they have other priorities. In the end the reason doesn't matter. They're in "poor health" so they quit working on their game. 

I have gone through significant issues in my personal life I've never revealed here. I have mentioned a few things like enduring a molar that broke in half that I had to put up with for two weeks before it could get fixed. None of this has EVER stopped me from working on Overwhored. Nor do I intend to stop working on the game until it is done. You all gave me the money to work on it. It would be a fundamental and horrific breach of trust to ever abandon this game before completion. 

Things have not gone well lately. Not even slightly. Needless to say the floor in my house collapsing recently is the least of my problems. I have a permanent spinal injury that causes me constant pain and has recently caused one of my legs to alternate between extreme pain and total numbness all day. Many other things have come up as well. However this is not a place to complain about my problems and I won't. 

I have not stopped working on the game. I have continued even with things going as they are. But damn is it slowing my progress. 

My sincere hope is to have a release with a new heroine at the very least for donators near Christmas as a present for the fans of this game. If I do not I sincerely apologize. It is because things have been very, very difficult and this is ultimately something I do in my free time. I may have to get another job soon since farming stops in the winter and things have been expensive lately. Besides - I need to start saving up for a move eventually. 

I always feel guilty about how long it takes to make new sections of this game. If I get done with work and end up playing a game with my friends I stop and think, "I could be working on the game instead." Even art, my other big hobby, feels like a guilty thing. I still allow myself to do it mostly because I really do want to do my own art for my games some day. I'm still not there but I am getting closer. This is a recent picture I drew a few days back: 

http://hypnohub.net/post/show/21314

Yet it still feels on some level like a waste of time. If I spend an hour and a half drawing something like that I'm not spending that time on the game. 

That is part of why I'm so very reluctant to take money; why I was so hesitant to take donations in the first place. I hate that I can't give you all the speed you want and deserve. 

Why haven't I set up a Patreon? Because I don't feel like I work on the game enough to justify getting money from you. Why don't I have fund raisers and drives? Because I don't feel like I give you enough. Even when the floor in my house collapsed I didn't ask you all for money to help get it fixed.

Why? Because there is a horrible type of person out there. They make terrible adult games as a hobby. They leech all the money they can out of fans and then claim they have bad health and abandon them. They're basically ripping people off. 

I hate those people. When things take too long I always feel like I am one. That's the very last thing I want to be. 

I wish I could do this faster and give you all a new release every month. But I can't. So at least I try to give you the best I can when a new release does come out. 

I don't know why I'm going on about this now, save that the not-entirely-effective pain killers I'm on are scrambling my brain at the moment. But I want you all to know how very much I care about this game and you as fans. Yes it's a porn game. But that doesn't mean it should be bad or done halfassedly. Whether it's porn or not I want it to be the best I can make it. I've told you all in the past that this project is for me first and everyone else second. And that's true in a way - it's for the sake of me being able to look at myself as a decent human being. If I stopped this project before it finished after all you all have done for me I don't think I could live with myself. 

I wish I could give you all everything you as fans deserve. You have been extraordinarily supportive over the past several years. That's why I want to make this Christmas release despite everything going on. If I don't make it because of the way things are going I want you to know that I tried. 

If you want to help support the project right now I need game footage. To coincide with the next public release I'm going to put out a safe-for-work youtube trailer with some specially designed animation work done by the wonderful art team member Mindwipe and narration by Nekochan of Bad Kitty Games. A recording of at least 720p resolution, sound not necessary. My computer isn't good enough to run the recording programs and the game at the same time. I'm going to put in a short montage of gameplay footage in the trailer. Short clips of varied locations preferred. 

To finish things off I'll present you with the finished Nanshe intro scene. I'm going to get one of these done for each of the heroines. 

Thank you so very much for being fans.