{"id":2512,"date":"2015-12-25T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T08:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2015-12-25T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T08:57:04","slug":"2015-the-year-of-no-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/2015-the-year-of-no-games\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 The Year Of … No games!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn the photo above, my cat Grillo under a small Christmas tree \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

Haha the post title sounds a little scary, doesn’t it? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

But it’s actually the pure truth. This year, as you might know, I didn’t release any new game, since I don’t consider SOTW DLC a “full game” (even if was moderately long), and while PSCD is almost done, it’s still not officially out. Dead But Alive wasn’t made by me so doesn’t count.<\/p>\n

Luckily, I still managed to stay afloat because of all the games I made in the past, but my income basically dropped more than half vs 2014! Though I had no hopes to match that year again, getting 14 games both on Steam AND iOS at once… was some rather unique combination!<\/p>\n

SOTW DLC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talking about the only released game, SOTW DLC, while doing it I realized the big mistake I did with SOTW main game. Yes I know that many people love it. I love it too! But from now on, for obvious budget\/time reasons, but also because I don’t want to get burned out, my future games will be much more story focused. Gameplay, sure, but not too complex or breaking the narrative too much.<\/p>\n

Back to the post title, what are the reasons behind the lack of releases? Keep reading.<\/p>\n

Reasons behind this<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, this is what happened this year: I’ve invested a lot on producing new games, and this also include getting back to work on some old games like Queen Of Thieves or Undead Lily. In practice, I decided was time to finish what I started YEARS ago! Since I don’t like to leave unfinished projects.<\/p>\n

It was a very good year because finally I found out several people who I can count on. Artists, writers, musicians, coders. People who are reliable<\/strong>. Wait, I know what you’re thinking: if those people are reliable, how comes that you’ve not released any new games this year? Well, it’s because some of them were busy on long-term projects (like Loren 2) others were hired only recently (you can’t expect to write a 200,000 words game or draw 16 CGs in 4-5 months!) and in general, the quality and amount of content in my games has increased a lot, as you’ve probably noticed.<\/p>\n

A bright future!<\/strong><\/p>\n

So while is true that there was no new game out this year, 2016 is looking to be a really “fun” year \ud83d\ude09 Here is what I have estimated. Of course, nothing is set in stone, in this world is really hard to meet the deadlines and there’s always some unexpected problem, so take this list with a grain of salt, but here it goes anyway:<\/p>\n