{"id":4776,"date":"2025-03-07T07:50:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2025-03-07T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:50:53","slug":"christines-care-release-and-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/christines-care-release-and-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine’s Care release and what’s next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve followed me on socials, you know that my new yuri visual novel Christine’s Care<\/a> is going to be released this month on Steam (game is already out on itchio<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liz is ready for the gay parade!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m curious to see how the game’s reception will be, since it’s rather different from my usual visual novels. It has a different art-style, a slice of life setting, a general more “serious” tone even if in the game there are many fun moments, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kickstarter didn’t do particularly well, however as I said in the past, even a game like At Your Feet had an average Kickstarter but then it sold extremely well on Steam (though it’s probably due to an untapped niche). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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one of the first images I commissioned for this game, still one of my favorite<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To be honest as I was writing this game (I had already a base plot done by another writer, on top of which I expanded it) I really started to get attached to each of the characters, indeed the final story turned out much longer than I expected for a $9.99 game. It’s longer than many other games I’ve done. I wish I could have added much more art, a full Donna storyline, and so on. But as always, it’s people who decide what gets done and what doesn’t, and once again I’m in red even with this game haha (meaning that I spent a bit more than the KS funds + Patreon money to make it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway: if you play this game and you like it, or in general if you want to see more games like this from me, buy it or if you can’t (I understand – times are tough) even spreading the word can really help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s next… the biggest game I’ve ever made!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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work in progress, almost done with core gameplay loop<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So after Christine’s Care, I’ll do the crowdfunding for Thieves of Dingirra<\/a>, the biggest game I’ve ever tried to make! A combination of city management + RPG + visual novel is something I didn’t think I would ever try to do, but here I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent the first months of this year doing more tests and refining the core gameplay loop – something I had to do even before thinking to start writing the story. I am at good point, but I’ll give more details on next month’s blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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this is how the missions play out. Lots of replayability!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have also finished all pre-production for another project that will see the light after Thieves of Dingirra<\/a>, the one with the male protagonist. It will be a very fanservice game, very crazy\/comedic and with a simple gameplay beside the story that I think should make it rather fun. Once again more details when we’re close to the crowdfunding, hopefully this Summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s all for now, stay tuned for next month where I’ll give you all the details on Thieves of Dingirra! The crowdfunding might start towards end of this month or early April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve followed me on socials, you know that my new yuri visual novel Christine’s Care is going to be released this month on Steam (game is already out on itchio). I’m curious to see how the game’s reception will be, since it’s rather different from my usual visual novels. It has a different art-style, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","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=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}