Hey lads!

Ok, this will be more like a summarization of a whole year, but I will partially share my plans for 2024 as well. Anyway, brace yourself for some long rant!

Initial concept behind the Unaware of the World game was something much smaller, closer to Insexsity (few locations), but with an emphasis on choices and character creation. But some of you already knows from my previous posts that my original team disbanded and my life got fucked up really bad in 2019 by accident. Leaving me no choice, but to continue working on UotW, since I needed money and nobody would hire in my condition, I decided to make something more ambitious and get it to the next level by trying to create a truly open-world game. Yep, a real overkill for a single dev, but thanks to your trust and a really long support, I managed to hire some really good freelancers to help me out (2D artists, composer, voice actress etc.), rent an office to be able to work in peace, and, what's more, in January I'm gonna look for a good writer - coz let's be honest, I suck at writing, while my time could be spent better elsewhere, like programming. Also, with the help of the Winter Sale 2023 on itch.io, I guess I'll be finally able to upgrade my PC with Intel i9 14900K CPU & Crucial T700 Pro SSD, making working at home faster, as I don't have an office for weekends and late evenings, while I try to work 7 days a week (if possible), as I don't have specific work hours and my life is really chaotic, so if I can work, then I work.

My current & main income (brutto/gross) from Patreon:

And also $259 with 19 subs on SubscribeStar and 1822 members on Discord!

Thanks a lot for supporting me another year. Thanks to you I can keep doing what I love the most - making games. Hentai game was never my favorite project (and never will :P), but it's still a game, my game, and I'm really happy that I can work on it, especially in my current health condition.

So, by looking at the changelogs, 2023 started with v30e in January. Yeah, we are in v33 right now, and I know what you are thinking - really? 3 versions in a whole fucking year? Well, yes. People whined about art in Unaware of the World and I kept repeating that it's impossible to do in the current game, but I decided to do it anyway and it backfired big time. I re-released the game as Unaware in The City (released with v30 in November 30th) on the very same engine, but forcing an art update with some workarounds. It was unplayable on Android and weak PCs, and pretty unstable and buggy on everything else, so also not really playable. I've rewritten a lot of stuff in v30f in May (finally making it somewhat stable) and I've kept fighting with performance, stability and bugs until v30l at the end of June, while still releasing some mini content (like Glossary) and quality of life changes (increased move speed, less black screens, easier ways to gain stats etc.). You know me, I can't work on a single thing endlessly, need some variety (that's why I always keep myself occupied with multiple features at the same time).

Then in v31 I've introduced a quote system (it's still in the early stage) where characters' responses change based on current conditions (before it was all done by hand, now it's more automated with more control). Added Fiancée backstory, somewhat complex pizza & drinking with Ben events, Ben as boyfriend, sex events, hairs, re-made animations, lots of traits, skippable work at diner, moved multiple EX features into BA, decreased game size 4 times, art update and so on.

Moving to v32, it started with buyable traits, Halloween, new moans, art update, tips at diner, Shady Dealer rework, more traits/perks, streamlined stat/skill gains, trait search function, added Science Street etc. v32 was definitely smaller compared to v31, but during that time I was dealing with serious family crisis, while also experimenting with pregnancy features for an upcoming v33. Anyway, v32 seemed well received (at least better than v31), mostly due to stability, bug fixes and quality of life changes, I believe. I'm happy in overall that I managed to release it despite all the life problems, although a little disappointment lingers, because I didn't do everything that I planned for v32. Such is life.

And now with a recent v33 release, I introduced a long-awaited pregnancy (although still in a very early stage), ability to boyfriend Albert, Kevin & Rick, new scenes, new diner outfit, weekly buffs, new traits/perks, new features and many new bugs! As the game finally got stable & playable enough, I'll focus more on sex scenes in this version.

And it all was only some of the v30-v33 changes. Despite it being only a "few" versions, it still had shitloads of bug fixes, changes and new content. And you know that my mini-updates like v33a, v33b etc. are more than simple bug fixes, as these also come with new content, and once I believe that it has enough features & is tested, I release it to the public and on itch.io. You can always read detailed 2023 changelogs yourself (if you are really bored), they are only less than 500 lines of text, but I always try to make them brief and without pointless info, like who the hell cares that I fixed few typos or fixed a wrong hand in an animation? Anyway, I definitely wasn't slacking :P

For the plans for 2024, well, I can't give you a solid roadmap for a whole year, because I always set my priorities based on what I feel should be added next. 
- Currently we are in v33 (pregnancy & NTR continuation update), so I'm gonna expand pregnancy features, add hospital, Mother backstory, female muscled body type, more NTR stuff, sex scenes and quotes for pregnancy/NTR, female clothes & male art update.
- I don't know if I'll be able to put everything in January's v33 updates, so for v34 I want to further expand stuff from v32 & v33, but also make traits buyable in the hospital and add random events across the world (accessible public toilet or RLD alley events etc.). I also plan to add some initial exhibitionism in v34 (yeah, you keep pestering me a lot about it :P), but I won't be able to give you fully unlimited open-world exhibitionism experience, because it would break the game, lol. If possible, I'll make it possible to work as a nurse in hospital, but still don't have a solid concept for this.
- In v35 I want to add lesbians, since woman-to-woman animations are currently unsupported, so making these with workarounds is really time consuming and hardly worth the effort IMO. Obviously, there will be more in this update, but that's simply the core feature I want to add in v35.
- In v36 I want to add survival mechanics (aka primary needs), where Jane will have to eat, sleep and (optionally) piss, putting more emphasis on earning money and finding a place to stay, while unlocking new events, like begging for food or having to sleep in someone's else bed etc.
- For other stuff I want to do in the near future is to re-make from scratch X-Ray and add promised cut-in views, and more character customization, but these will be added somewhere between v34-v36.
- I'm also thinking about adding a fully optional female futa NPC (aka girl with a dick), since there's a demand, but honestly... I rather dislike futa porn, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to add it in the end.
- There are also plans to re-work Kinky Nymph, add Cheap Brothel location, introduce Rat King, Junkeads gang, The City Mayor, new places to work and much more! But how much time it all will take? No clue. But usually 1 major update takes around 1,5-2 months, but I'm thinking about releasing smaller updates more often, as it feels more fair towards a monthly subscription system.

As always, I will get more into detail as mentioned updates will come close, but that's how it currently looks more or else for the next half of a year, I guess? I'm pretty sure that I forgot to mention some of the stuff that I wanted to include, lol. My to-do list is nearing 200 positions already, and it keeps expanding rather than shortening, but at least you can be sure that I'm not running out of ideas and plans any time soon!

This has been a really hard and crazy year for me, a lot of weird and unpredictable stuff happened, but now that I look at it, it wasn't that bad, it had its good moments, too, but of all the things, my firstborn is what I remember best. She helped me endure dark moments and is my main drive to keep me going forward and doing my best. And another really cool thing happened recently, my wife is pregnant again, so we'll have a 2nd kid :D And I tell you, real pregnancy is a nightmare, or rather its beginning and ending. Anyway, I'll give it my all in 2024 again! Cheers!

P.S. Picture above is from fireworks we've fired to celebrate 1st kid birthday and finding out we gonna have 2nd kid as well. It wasn't December 31st, so police came, and thanks to my bro's great rhetorical skills, we all almost got fined, because he couldn't stfu for a second xD

Happy New Year!