Delays Everywhere

Oh gosh is it Friday already?  This week has gone by way too fast and that means it’s time for a LAST MINUTE BLOG POST~
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First thing’s first, here’s a list of what’s changed since last time:

So tonight we’re going to answer one question that we’re getting asked more and more nowadays:

What the HELL is taking us so long?

Salty Tears began as a late-night joke in the Capschat group on Steam.  We planned to -maybe- spend a month on it and hastily release it out to the world.  We were set for an April 1strelease date, thinking it would be a fun little thing to throw out in the wild for maybe 10 people to read.

So, needless to say we missed that date.  By a large margin.  As we continued to build the project up mid-March, it became painfully obvious we weren’t going to hit our April 1stdeadline.  At that point, we decided to say “well, we aren’t going to hit our original date, no point rushing it now!” so rather than trying to push it out soon afterwards, we decided instead to revamp what we had and aim for something a little more quality oriented.  To compensate, we hastily threw together a joke build over the course of two days.

Totally legitimate

There was also the small complication of over-exposure.  As mentioned earlier, this started as an in-joke that we expected maybe 10 people to download apart from the actual developers.  For that reason, the original draft of Salty Tears was to be filled with a ton of silly references and slapstick that only that small audience would appreciate.  Then for SOME REASON that we honestly can’t explain, it started getting attention from people we didn’t expect. At the time of this writing, the blog is sitting on a comfortable 11,798 hits from a varied number of sites and pages.  When we decided that we’d slow down and take our time, the first order of business would be a change of direction for the project.  We couldn’t write out the story for a narrow target audience, it would need to be expanded and generalized a bit so that everyone who downloaded It would be able to get some enjoyment out of it, while still leaving some “HEH” moments for the people we were originally designing ST for.

In other words, everything that wasn’t “self-insert VN” was thrown out the window.  Fortunately, a new direction for the writing was fairly straight forward to figure out. UNfortunately as a result of the change, we’ve admittedly been pretty sloppy about explaining what exactly Salty Tears is and everyone seems to have a different idea of what it is or should be.  That’s something we plan to fix soon in the form of character bios and some general plot information.

So yeah, ever since we missed our original deadline we’ve had to re-evaluate several things and that’s caused a pretty hefty delay, all things considered.  We don’t have a solid release schedule yet but you should know that we’re still plugging along at a nice pace and they delays haven’t been without a purpose.
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And with that, this blog post has come to an end. See you next week!

Comments

ThreadKiller May 11, 2012

Deal with your publicityI am watching.Waiting.Caprice shall be mine.First for ThreadKiller

TopHat May 11, 2012

ok

vaer May 11, 2012

Just get the hell on back, god dammit, and write yourself the best damn VN you can.

Anonymous May 11, 2012

Glad there was some real contexts in this one. I like the answering of questions. Keep up the good work!

Mountaineer May 12, 2012

I'm trying but TopHat keeps whipping me

wotoadgi September 09, 2015

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Q: Why must CFPB act?
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Q: Why wouldn't CFPB act to protect consumers?
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But the public strongly approves of regulating predatory payday lending and supports the CFPB's mission to regulate the financial sector. If the CFPB stands up to predators with a strong rule, it can be sure of the public's continued support.
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Q: When might the decision be announced?
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