The Eternal King First Release + What comes next?

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to be sharing the very first release of my VN The Eternal King. This has been a long time in the making for me, working on it between a full time job, spending time with my wife and taking care of our baby. A lot of effort went into this release.

Please bear in mind, as it is now, it's more like a demo version than what I wanted to be the full version one. I do think it is a fair bit longer than many other 'demo' versions that are released, but I don't want to appear like I'm trying to mislead anyone.

That being said, let's get to the details:

The Eternal King 0.1:

~ 370 renders

- 2 h-scenes

~ Thousands of lines of dialogue

Now, onto what comes next! It's like I mentioned in the earlier. The first release was more of a demo compared to what I wanted the actual version one to be. That being said, the version one I have in mind has the following:

- An introductory event for each one of the girls

- A fair bit more of the main story, with the full introduction of one of the characters that was teased in the prologue

- Originally, this was going to be a sandbox game, but I have since scrapped that idea and am making it a full linear game, so character and main stories will flow and interweave with one another

- It will probably be about 3 or 4 times the size of what was released today.

How long is that going to take? I'm not entirely sure. I have a full time job, plus a wife and a <1 year old. Time is a premium. I usually work on TEK for about an hour or two every day after putting the baby to sleep, so getting it all out may take a bit. I may decide to take the approach of just doing biweekly or monthly releases with just whatever I finish in that time period instead, just to ensure that something is being produced, but I haven't fully committed to that idea either.

Some goals I have for version 1:

- Better compression (Already done! It was easy, which makes me look like a dunce for not doing it sooner. Regardless, the next version of the game will be much more memory friendly.)

- Custom animations. I've already started practicing this, you can take the Aki Twerking animation as my first real experimentation with it, but I'd like to get to the point where I can make custom sex scenes rather than using the out-of-the-box KK anims. For now, I'm just planning to add in some simple custom animations while I continue to practice.

- General improvement when it comes to rendering, coding, post processing and just overall workflow

I'm sorry, I know that I've said a lot here only to not say anything real at all, but I promise, TEK is being worked on every single day. I have an outline for the entirety of the game. A more in depth outline for what I'm considering to be chapter one is also finished. I've written the scripts for two of the girl's first events, and am about halfway through the third.

I'll update you more as I decide how I want to approach things, but feel free to ask me if you have any questions.

Once again, if you played my game, I really appreciate, and if you decided to support me, I am eternally grateful! Now, I'm getting back to work, I'll talk to you guys soon!