{"id":843,"date":"2010-12-31T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2010-12-31T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T12:12:59","slug":"friday-catblogging-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/friday-catblogging-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday catblogging – Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGilda in a basket in the bathroom of my old home. Because we have so many cats, we never had a decorated Christmas Tree, otherwise would be instantly destroyed… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! I have released Planet Stronghold alpha 0.8, which features lot of new content! If you’re interested in trying the demo or buying the game please visit the game website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, a quick update on what you can expect in the next months:<\/p>\n

Role Playing Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beside Planet Stronghold, which will be finished at end of January 2011<\/strong>, I plan to start 2-3 more RPGs. I love RPGs and I always wanted to make them, but in the past I was lacking proper funds and\/or technical knowledge to make decent ones. Now, using Planet Stronghold RPG framework I can expand it and create new RPGs. Most of them will be in fantasy setting though, since it’s the most common\/popular one (unless Planet Stronghold is so successful that convinces me to make add-on\/sequels). I have already a good collaborator of mine who is starting creating the main game plot, character sketches, and so on. Another one should start hopefully in next months, and I want to do another myself as well. So the 2011 will be surely full of RPGs!<\/p>\n

Adventure Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am still in love with my character of Vera Blanc, despite the first two episodes not being really topsellers. As I posted several times if I make a third episode, it will be an adventure (first person) and not a visual novel, since the adventure style integrates better with that kind of game. I have already a plot for the story, but since it requires lot of money, it’s still a risky decision, so if I make it, won’t be before next summer, or even later during Fall\/Winter of 2011.<\/p>\n

Visual Novels \/ Dating Sims<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course I’ll keep making them! Flower Shop 2 release is really close, is just a matter of few months. But since is tied to external factors (artists finishing some pieces) I won’t dare to name a date for it. Instead I can already say that very likely the otome game “Remember Me” will be ready around February\/March 2011, since the plot is completely written and need only to code the “simulation part” of it and do testing\/balancing. Depending how my other projects go, I could make more VN\/Dating Sims, but they’ll be mixed with simulation games.<\/p>\n

Strategy \/ Simulation Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2011 perhaps I will finally release the sequel of Spirited Heart. I have yet to start coding it though, so is probably more accurate to say that in 2011 I’ll begin coding<\/strong> it, which is a bit different. It won’t be ready probably before 2012, also because I have in mind some online-features (probably optional) that could improve the gameplay a lot, so I am not sure yet I’ll use Ren’Py to code this one.
\nThere will be for sure more strategy\/simulation games coming in 2011 though. A remake of my game Universal Boxing Manager, this time with the fights completlely in 3d realtime<\/strong>, is under production! Is made in partnership with a good 3d coder who is going to use Unity3d to power the 3d simulation. It’s probably my biggest\/most ambitious game to date and the 2011 will be mainly focused on it. I hope will do well since I’d like to port more of my old games into 3d or start new ones.
\nAs I said I might also find the time to do a sort of light-strategy\/time management game based on Heileen settings. In particular, Heileen 2 settings (pirates, the caribbean). The game could be played as normal strategy game or with visual novel cut-scenes (they’ll be optional). This will be a sort of experiment since I am not sure if\/when I’ll finish it. Let’s say I’ll work on it on my spare time and when it’s done, is done \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Online Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almost every year I say “next year I’ll make one”. So, this time I won’t say it!<\/strong> But, I would like to try making one, even if I am not sure I’ll find the time…or better, if I’ll find the right person, since I’m probably going to outsource the coding (will be most likely done in Flash or HTML5). Or if the new interesting BRL:monkey project from Mark Sibly (creator of Blitzmax) gets released, I might use that and do everything myself.<\/p>\n

So in conclusion, looks like the 2011 will be a year full of new releases! Happy New Year again!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gilda in a basket in the bathroom of my old home. Because we have so many cats, we never had a decorated Christmas Tree, otherwise would be instantly destroyed… \ud83d\ude42 First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! I have released Planet Stronghold alpha 0.8, which features lot of new content! If you’re interested in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8,9,117,118,137,12,26,138,14,15,17,18,23,113,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-sims","category-general-topics","category-heileen","category-indie-life","category-mystery-detective-games","category-online-games","category-otome-games","category-pets","category-planet-stronghold","category-remember-me","category-roleplay-games","category-simulation-games","category-spirited-heart","category-strategy-games","category-tycoongames","category-vera-blanc","category-winter-wolves-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}