{"id":2749,"date":"2016-06-03T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T07:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2016-06-03T17:16:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:16:57","slug":"heirs-graces-officially-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/heirs-graces-officially-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Heirs &#038; Graces officially out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heirs &amp; Graces - Official Trailer\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/unt12CMtKD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m pleased to announce that Heirs &amp; Graces is now officially out! You can see the game trailer above. For more info, screenshots and a free demo visit this page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.com\/heirsandgraces.htm\">http:\/\/www.winterwolves.com\/heirsandgraces.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This game is my 3rd released game this year so far. I am not being lazy this year, am I? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jokes apart, it&#8217;s not like the three games in question (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.com\/pscd.htm\">PSCD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.com\/c14dating.htm\">C14 Dating<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.com\/heirsandgraces.htm\">Heirs &amp; Graces<\/a>) were all created this year! I started working on them long time ago. In more detail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Planet Stronghold: Colonial Defense started in Fall 2014. Originally a tower defense game without romance, it turned into a card game\/dating sim hybrid!<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">C14 Dating was a project started back in 2013 (the original plot and writing)! then for various reasons was delayed until this year<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heirs &amp; Graces was another &#8220;side project&#8221; started back in 2014, and it&#8217;s out now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So as you can see all the three games took a lot of time to make. But there&#8217;s no shortcut: if you want something to be good AND long (all three games have a script over 120.000 words, PSCD passes even the 200.000 mark!) you need to wait!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And now, a short postmortem for this game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Heirs &amp; Graces short postmortem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s obviously too early to say how it will do, also considering I have planned to release it on Steam later (to avoid the Summer Sale that as you know happens every year).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, so far the reaction from people and the feedback\/sales I got from my own site gives me hope. I was really unsure since it is my first yaoi-only dating sim, so I had no clue how it could do. I can say that I feel more relaxed now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That said, as I explained also in my forums, I really don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to do anymore games with a single romance combo in future. No yaoi only, yuri only, otome only, etc. Simply because making a game it&#8217;s already a lot of effort, and people need to wait years, I want at least to try offering something for everyone \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This doesn&#8217;t change anything for the games already in production of course. So Never Forget Me will be a straight otome, Summer In Trigue a yuri only, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back to Heirs &amp; Graces, I think the fantasy setting combined with dating sim was a good move. I just realized now that beside Spirited Heart, all my other dating sims aren&#8217;t using a fantasy theme. So I believe I should do more dating sims like this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I&#8217;ve already talked about the &#8220;no more grinding&#8221; in dating sim, and the scheduler system I used in this game was perfect I think: requiring some strategy to pass the main plot checks, but never grindy even replaying the game several times. I must reuse this system even in future games whenever possible!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another thing that went well with the game was the &#8220;bittersweet theme&#8221;. It might be personal tastes of course, but I personally I prefer when there are funny\/light scenes mixed with more serious\/sad\/melancholic ones (those who already played the game know what I am referring to!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So except for games that are meant to be pure comedy (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.com\/roommates.htm\">Roommates<\/a>!) I believe adding some more serious\/mature\/sad scenes to the story could help overall. As long as there is some way to get a happy ending \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that Heirs &amp; Graces is now officially out! You can see the game trailer above. For more info, screenshots and a free demo visit this page: http:\/\/www.winterwolves.com\/heirsandgraces.htm This game is my 3rd released game this year so far. I am not being lazy this year, am I? \ud83d\ude09 Jokes apart, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,179,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-sims","category-heirs-graces","category-postmortem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}