Dark Demarley
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July Newsletter
🕑 Added 2023-07-01 18:17:17 +0000 UTC---------------------------------------------------------------
Hello everyone and welcome to the THIRD official newsletter for DarkDemarley here on Patreon!
Of course, it's the first one about HInomori Nights, but that's why it's so darn important!
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June Progress
For June, the focus of my development went through a radical shift. As many of you already know, I had to stop working on my previous projects and I had to shift over to my newer game Hinomori Nights.
With the "Foundation Update" I'm working on the main building blocks of Hinomori, and how the game plays. My main focus is to make sure everyone can strat playing the game, learn the storyline, and be allowed to free roam around Hinomori, much like my previous games.
I started out with the intention to release this game earlier, with minial gameplay, but I thought better about it and decided to make sure there was things to do within the game first. Hence why I'm taking a little longer than normal to release this update.
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Plans for July
In July, a lot of exciting things will happen. First and foremost, Hinomori Nights will go through it's first release, which will be free and available to everyone.
After that, I will be focusing on the next update, which introduces the larger role of the NSFW adult content within the game. This update will be talked about soon, and will release first to Patrons and later to the public.
I will talk more about this update and things to come once I release the Foundation Update soon.
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Patron Poll for June
While we did not have any content-related patron polls for June, we did have two seperate polls to see which girls genearted more interst amongst you.
I have taken the poll winners into consideration when decided which girls I should be focusing on for future updates.
As I develope in July, I will release more polls to you all to gather more intel on this, as a way to help me understand what it is you guys want ot see in Hinomori Nights!
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Discord News
Our Discord was hit with an expected drop. After needing to drastically change it all due to the news I spoke of earlier, I had to market it towards Hinomori Nights.
A huge shoutout and thanks to all that have stuck it out and continue to join us on this fun adventure :D
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Development Goals
As I'm essentially restarting, I do not have my goals laid out yet. Once I do, I will be placing them here for you all to see. These goals act as 'Milestones' so that We can achieve certain goals together and I will reward all players in-game once these are met!
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New Investor Signups
Normally in this section I would talk about new investors sign ups, for this month though I'm going to remind those that have already signed up that they are still a part of the team!
-Kino - Ping -insideChaos -DasKranken
Thank you all for being a huge part of waht keeps me going, you have all talked to me privately and all are an amazing motivator to keep this game going.
I hope to make something really fun for you all, and can't wait to show you what I got going on.
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Personal Life
I don't have too much to talk about here, but I will go into a few things. As some of you know, we lost an employee at my job recently, which ate up a ton of my freetime.
I'm happy to say that a new employee got hired, and I have spent the last week training them on my position. This should help a ton on picking up the slack, and free me up for more time on my hobbies I.E Hinomori Nights.
I apologize for my break away from all social media in that time, but I had to focus heavily on my work. I hope to make it up to you all with content!
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Patron Questions
Here are some of the questions brought up to me throughout the month :
Q : What is Hinomori Nights
A : Hinomori Nights is an Adult/Visual Novel/Dating Simulator that takes place in the fictional Japanese Town of Hinomori. You play as a young man who recently has had to come to the town and redo his last year at Hinomori High, due to an unfortunately event at his previous high school. As you meet the people of Hinomori, you will discover a dark secret that takes you tyo a realm beyond. Within the game, you will help the townspeople, as well as work on yourself and relationships along the way.
Q: Persona?
A: Sort of, without mentioning it. Think about my previous games, and know that I'm trying my best to create that kind of game, but with original characters and storyline.
Q: How can I hlep?
A: Every day is a new learning curve for me, and I"m trying my best to keep development going. Any words of thoughts, opinions, encouragement or even just simple messages of hello can always help. If you want to help out financially, this patreon also helps. Mostly, just being you and keeping up with the discord or news is helpful, but please let me know if there is a feature/idea you would like to see in this game.
Q: Pregnanacy?
A: I get this question a lot, It 's something that always surprises me, but regardless, I can say that at least 2 characters currently have plans for this mechanic. I hope to talk more about this in a future update!
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Alright, that concludes the July newsletter! If you have any thoughts or suggestions then please let me know.
See you on the discord!
Thanks for your time,
~DarkDemarley
