December Progress Update -RETURN FROM BREAK-

Hello all, hope you are doing well.
It's me Sterben, and I'd like to announce that I landed a new Job!
Due to this, I will be posting a status update.

Team:
Well... As a common theme with the development of this game...
I am once again on my own in the writing/programming process and honestly... I'm totally fine with that.
Working more on my own has made me appreciate the hard work that my other team members have put forth.
While I'm in this period of waiting for my new job to start I will try to get as much done as possible.

I start my new job in mid-January and school the week after, so while I don't like giving timelines, I want to try and have something by early Feb, and tbh even if I don't have anything I'd deem playable I'll just release what I have in the form of a pre-release. It's not fair you guys have to wait a few months between updates.

However, I still will be looking at co-writers and programmers to speed up the process. If you know anyone that might like the opportunity please reach out to me privately on discord.

General Development:
As for the General development Cycle. I do have some good news, I finally decided on what the canon species for the protagonist would look like. You will be able to see him out of the game as I will be posting it on the main page when the artwork is finished. I'm hoping by early Jan to have something to show you, please look forward to it.

Outside of this, Writing work has already continued and I have a few things here and there I can't wait to show you. this includes...

• Daytime events (Stuff that happens before going to the club.)
• Less menu-heavy interactions (This is something I wanted to fix for a long while.)
• More focus on the over-arching plot (I'll explain this in detail)

Now for the part where I mention the "Over-arching" plot... Gamer den to me has always been more about the character day to day rather than your day-to-day, I'd compare it to Morenatsu or Persona character storytelling.  While that won't change at all for the past 6 months or so I wanted to make Gamer Den a little more special, this is my Lifes work at this point.

While the structure of the game won't change, there is now an ending and to see the full picture you'll have to beat every route of the game once to be able to see it, and every time you complete a route additional scenes will open up inside your next playthrough giving you a lot more context than before. I hope you guys will like this change and you will probably start seeing the effects of this with Daytime events.

 Future Monetization:
Making games is costly, everyone knows this, and I've always been wary of finding ways to monetize Gamer Den.
I had a Patreon at one point, but it's really hard to keep up with something like that when team members come and go.
Life halts development, so on and so forth. and While I'm thinking about doing it again, I'd like to know if there are other alternatives you'd like to see. Please let me know.


 Closing:
I appreciate the continued support of this project and love the fact that multiple people are still enjoying my work, even to this day.
It makes the process worth i, I hope you guys have a good rest of your day. Also BBCF now has rollback and is like 80% off so if you like fighting games please please pleas pleeasse play that game it's OD

(Also I'll be at FC22 hosting a panel on visual novel development so if you'd like to attend the panel please do x~x)