400 Downloads!😅👍🙇‍♂️

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So… we’ve reached 400 downloads of the Love Company Demo!

To all those who donated, who posted so many wonderful comments on the main page, and even to those who’ve just downloaded the game demo… I can’t thank you enough. This is what motivates me to continue working on the game, and to make something that I can ultimately be proud of. I really appreciate each and every one of you.

Coming down from that, it is still just me working on the game…. And this is the largest project I’ve worked on so far. Ever since the demo’s launch as a submission for the 2022 Yandere Game Jam, I’ve been stumbling a bit with planning out the later, more-involved paths of the story. I only had a very general feel for what I wanted to happen from the beginning, and I’m paying for it now.

It’s easy to get lost in the details, to lose focus on what’s really important to the story...

• What makes a situation truly scary? How far do things need to go? Are players more invested in who is behind everything, or why they are going to such lengths?

• Do these office backgrounds look good enough? How many more will I need to make?

I’ve been really struggling here and there, sometimes to the point where I start to question if I can even finish Love Company…. I’m deeply afraid of burnout. It would be doing a disservice to the characters, story, subject matter, and to all of you. There’s a message here that I can’t just push to the wayside. The situation hasn’t changed all that much…. and it never will, unless the stories come to light.

I’m sorry if this update is a bit on the negative side. Working on this project has involved a lot of research and thought concerning certain subjects. I am really grateful to everyone that has given me and Love Company this chance. Thank you for the patience. There’s still some story threads I need to settle on, but I won’t let them kill the project. I will eventually complete and release Love Company. It’s only a matter of when.