State of the Game update Dec 2021 (Patreon)

"'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; Sat there deep in thought, was Exiscoming thinking of all the (naughty) jolly he brought. Not giving you an update now would surely be a crime, also fuck this, I'm not doing the next part in rhyme."

Merry Christmas everyone! This is without a doubt my favorite time of the year and I can't wait to dig into a nice Christmas dinner tomorrow. But before we rush off to our loved ones for the Holidays, let's give you an update on Camp Mourning Wood.

Models

So last month I informed you about the models which are currently being worked on. This month we've begun giving them clothes (yeah yeah, I know... boooo clothes). We also gave the face another make-over because I wasn't quite happy with how the girl looked.

I'm liking these new eyes a lot more now:

In addition to the eyes, we decided to re-do the shadows and coloring on the model aswell.  Finally, there's the new Camp Uniform being worked on as we speak.

What? Not sexy enough for ya? Don't worry, you'll be able to make changes to it as the game progresses~...

Story / Code

With the majority of underlying code being done now (unless I come up with some kind of crazy gameplay mechanic again...) I've begun focusing on the story. And ooooh this one's a doozy. Where at the start of Paprika Trainer I was struggling because I didn't have enough ideas, for Camp Mourning Wood it is the opposite. I have way too many ideas.

Many ideas which all have many sexy CGI's attached to them and I just want to give a shout-out to my two wonderful artists Jodsy and Potchi, who have been working so hard and dealing with my nitpicking.

The main critique of PT was that it didn't have enough CGs. This is something that I'd like to tackle in CMW. Instead of just giving you a naughty CG every now and again, I'm working them into the story much more. On top of that, the adult scenes are much more descriptive. Reminiscent of Orange Trainer, rather than Paprika Trainer.

Update schedule

With many more CGs comes a longer wait time as it takes time to get these pictures done. In Orange Trainer I would release updates with just a white screen with a big PLACEHOLDER text over it. I'm hoping to avoid that as much as I can for this game. It looks ugly, ruins the mood and is kind of unprofessional.

So I'll be avoiding that this time around.

Bugs

So Orange Trainer was known for its (often humorous) bugs. Many of these were fixed when working on Paprika Trainer where I learnt to use Ren'py better. However PT became a bug-riddled nightmare due to the more complex gameplay mechanics I introduced.

This is something I'd like to change for CMW. Updates should be fun, completed and (mostly) bugfree. Although I can't guarantee there won't be any bugs, it has become a mission of mine to try and keep this game as bugfree as possible!

User feedback

This is something I've wanted to implement for a while now. I'd like to give you guys more input on what gets added to the game and what I should focus on the most. Things like what fetishes you'd like to see included, who's story I should work on next, what kind of mechanics you'd like to see.

I'm probably going to work this into one of the Patreon reward tiers. I haven't talked about it much as of yet because of the delays, but expect more of this to start showing up in 2022.

Sooo~... when's the first update coming out?

Short answer: "When it's presentable." Which is hopefully sometime soon. As most of the work on the models is done now, we can shift focus to the CGs / outfits / backgrounds.

But with that said, I wanted to thank all of you for your continued trust in me! Camp Mourning Wood is shaping up to be more of a game every day and I can't wait to begin shared it with you guys!

There will be boobs! There will be butts! And there will be harems! For now, have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year! Thank you all for your support and I'll see you in 2022!!!