{"id":4478,"date":"2023-07-01T09:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2023-07-01T09:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:42:40","slug":"half-year-point-of-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/half-year-point-of-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-year point of situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes when I&#8217;m about halfway through a year, like now, I make a sort of &#8220;point of the situation&#8221;. This is one of those times! I know it&#8217;s not the first Friday of the month, but I wanted to write this post now because there are only 48 hours left until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/winterwolves\/tales-of-aravorn-an-elven-marriage\">An Elven Marriage Kickstarter campaign end<\/a>s! Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t make a fancy cinematic trailer, so I made a simple one where I explain some of the cool features of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ToA:  An Elven Marriage Kickstarter trailer\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dy9b4-niqPA?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The most interesting surprise so far is the &#8220;fashion designer&#8221; reward (by which you can design your custom outfit for Elenor or Saren). At first, Elenor was leading with 4 against 2, but guess what? Saren is catching up and now it&#8217;s a close race with 6 against 5! We have 8 spots available for this reward (both for Elenor and Saren), so don&#8217;t miss out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/winterwolves\/tales-of-aravorn-an-elven-marriage\">If you haven&#8217;t already you can take a look at the Kickstarter page now!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now back to this blog topic, but first, a short reminder that all my games are on sale both on itchio: <a href=\"https:\/\/winter-wolves.itch.io\/\">https:\/\/winter-wolves.itch.io\/<\/a> and on Steam: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/pub\/winterwolves\">https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/pub\/winterwolves<\/a> , so if you want to complete the collection or you&#8217;re thinking about trying one, now it&#8217;s a good moment to do it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This year&#8217;s goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My goals this year were to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/winter-wolves.itch.io\/the-beastmaster-princess\">The Beastmaster Princess<\/a> (and I did, this Spring), then ToA: An Elven Marriage (Kickstarter is about to end and I&#8217;ll be working hard on this one from now on) and I also said that maybe if I had some free time, I&#8217;d also try releasing a shorter game, Black Mirror-style (and I did, that game was <a href=\"https:\/\/winter-wolves.itch.io\/save-the-world\">Save The World<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you might think that I&#8217;m at good point. And well, I am! But in today&#8217;s competitive market, you must never rest for a moment. And in the little free time I have, I&#8217;m taking the opportunity to plan the next and last Tales From The Under-Realm, which I&#8217;ll likely call it &#8220;Lilith&#8221;, the name of the half-demoness protagonist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The next Tales From The Under-Realm game<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to tease too much, also because right now I&#8217;m only brainstorming the story. I think it will be the most dark of all my games with&#8230; some really terrible stuff happening. But also with possible good endings. This time won&#8217;t be a murder mystery, but more like a journey together. Beside Lilith and Evelyn (one of the two love interests) there&#8217;ll also be another cute lady, a disciple of Irijo, sort of fallen paladin. There&#8217;ll be references to the first game, Hazel and of course to the second (Evelyn was one of the main characters of that game).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am also planning it in a way that will be possible to have a very detailed threesome story (will probably be a stretch goal). So not something added later but one of the main plot arcs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s still very early stages but hope this answers the questions of some people who wondered if I was going to make another game in this series. The answer is yes, of course not this year, but it will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ToA: An Elven Marriage plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-624x351.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to my next big RPG in the works: I don&#8217;t have a fixed deadline in mind, but since the editor just sent me the first part of the story fully edited (about 20% of total script) I believe I could have a beta version already this Fall, and my goal would be to finish it this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I might delay the Steam release to early next year because you know, there&#8217;s the &#8220;cursed period&#8221; from November to December, in which 150 million games come out so I&#8217;d probably avoid that. But aside this, you should definitely be able to play the full game this year or max early next year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-1-1536x863.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-1-624x351.png 624w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/immagine-1.png 1907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once this is out, I&#8217;ll need a bit of time to recharge but I plan to do the next one in a reasonable amount of time. My ideal goal would be to have the other three remaining spin-off games out every 2 years, which means: Reign of War 2025, Reign of Peace 2027 and Witches Of Unforgiving Swamp 2029&#8230; really far away I know, maybe if some of those games won&#8217;t be full RPG it could happen sooner, but I need to be careful to not get burned out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, and thank you for your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when I&#8217;m about halfway through a year, like now, I make a sort of &#8220;point of the situation&#8221;. This is one of those times! 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