No, I'm not dead (yet!)!

I'm still alive! That's probably a good thing! I know I warned everyone that I was going to be quiet for awhile as a started training for a new job -_-, but I honestly wasn't expecting it to be quite as bad as it has been. It turns out that the company I'm now working for is in the middle of completely revamping their on boarding process and I've kinda gotten stuck in the middle. The net result being a lot of extra stress for me (the whole reason I quit working a 9-5 in the past was the fact that I don't handle that sort of chaos well at all and it always seems to happen to me, whenever I work for someone else. ALWAYS.). As such, I've pretty much just been working, sleeping, and desperately trying to de-stress when not doing either of those. 

Even so, I know I owe everyone a major apology to patrons...specifically for last month's lack of a Short Story. The simple truth of the matter is that Jaylee wrote about 3200 words of a short for last month, and had that much done halfway through the month. However, each short is SUPPOSED to be roughly 5000 words, so she went about trying to add the additional 1800 by tacking on more scenes.... Only to crash and burn hard, three times, making the attempt. She wrote and scrapped three separate versions before finally having to step back away from the project for a little while. Thankfully, she's now gotten a rough draft of a version that she likes, and I'm going to look it over tonight. Hopefully, it will be posted within the next couple of days. I'm so sorry about the delay :-(, and so it Jaylee, unfortunately both of us learned a long time ago that it's not something that can just be forced. As doing that tends to wreck the quality.

Anyway, as for Eros Academy, I had intended to post up a roadmap for further development, but got sucked into the new training. Here are the basics of what I'm planning, though I've left any sort of date figure off until I get a handle on my new job, as I won't know how much time I can put into the game until that evens out.

Where Eros Academy is Going

Originally, the game wasn't intended to really have an Ending, per se, but to simply keep going as more and more content was added. I had hoped, in that light, to make it something like the Hentai Highschool folks are doing, though with a bit less random recreation of the entire engine -_-. 

However, do it both some burnout on my part, and a lack of overall interest in the game, I'm now looking at getting to a point I can actually call the project 'finished,' and move onto another game. Right now, what that is looking like is this:

• Each of the three major characters having 3-4 dates per character.
• Each major character having at least 2-3 possible relationship options after Faith has successfully completed their dates and reached 100% relation with them. These will be things like creating 'Slavegirl Namoi' or 'Dominatrix Lily.' With each option opening up new things to do with the characters.
• Options to pursue threesomes if you complete relationships with multiple characters.
• 2-3 Additional Academy "Groups" for Faith to join and participate in.
• At least 3-4 minor scenes for each major character around the academy
• At least 1-2 minor scenes for each major character OUTSIDE the academy
• Numerous additional events around the academy grounds.

At this time I have scrapped the idea of adding a time progression system to the game. Originally I envisioned doing so and making various things only happen on certain days or at certain times. The simple truth is that it would add a major layer of complexity to the game that would slow my ability to get it to a 'finished' stage.

Likewise, originally I had planned to include a good dozen dateable characters over time. Right now, however, I've brutally cut that to just 3-4. The three already in the game and possibly one more male character if there's ever an actual demand for Faith/Male content -_-. This MAY change, if interest in the game picks up as the depth of content in the game continues to increase. 

Keep in mind that this is the MINIMUM amount of content I'm planning to add to the game before labeling it complete (or at least 'complete for now'). If either I find more desire to work on the game, or people show a lot more interest, I may make quite a bit more content than this.

P.S. As a final bit of news, sometime soonish I'll be putting up polls for WHO the next update will focus on(Lily, Naomi, or Michael). I wanted to do it earlier in the month...but the job training is really killing my will to get stuff done at the moment -_-.