Feb 10
Strangers on Paper - gloomyghoststudio
We’d like to thank everyone who has been supporting the game so far! If you've been enjoying your time with it, we'd love to hear your thoughts in a review on the Steam page. Your feedback helps us and future players a lot!
And, for those of you who are new here, we figured it wouldn’t hurt to bring back an updated FAQ of the game.
What kind of sexual content are you planning to include in this game?
Let’s get this out of the way first. SOP is not a story about sex. It is a story with sex, but it doesn’t set out to explore kinks specifically, so the content here will be on the tamer side. We have nothing against games depicting other preferences, we just didn’t feel that type of content fits the story we are telling here.
Do you have the whole story planned out already? How long is it going to be?
The game will be four chapters long, with the last one possible including an epilogue. The same day I came up with the plot and characters, I wrote a quick summary for each chapter and each ending. Of course, I continue to edit these the more I write, but we have a very clear direction of where each story will go.
Why is your game so short compared to other AVNs?
Because that’s the way we like it. Just to put it out there, the length of the gameplay itself has nothing to do with nor was it affected in any way by development issues. We had always planned to make a sort of short story, with short-ish chapters. I guess we think of each chapter as a movie, or an episode of a show in terms of length, but overall we end up going for what feels natural for the story we want to tell.
When will Chapter 3 be out?
First of all, we’ll throw in a quick reminder that this is not our full-time job. We really, really wish it could be, but the way things are in our lives right now do not allow the time we wished we had to devote to this game. That being said, the financial support we have received so far has made all the difference during the hardest times, otherwise, we’d probably have given this up long ago. Things have been going a lot smoother lately, and now that the game is out on Steam, we will be focusing solely on finishing up Chapter 3. More on that on our next dev log!
We hope this has helped clear some things up, if you still have questions, feel free to ask in the comments and we will do our best to answer!
Now, for those of you who enjoy the journal-like notes:
Jesus Christ. I’d forgotten how wild it is to release something. The quickest feedback usually comes in the form of negativity, and it does hit hard when you’re sleep deprived and have spent countless hours trying to make sure to get things right.
At the end of the day, we’re really just two people doing something that we have very little idea of how it should be done, and that is why I have to emphasize just how good it feels every time one of you sends a word of encouragement our way. We say “thank you” a lot, and I just want to let you know we truly mean it, it really makes us less of a gloomy ghost, reminds us why we do this, makes us want to try harder. We know our game is not for everyone, but those of you who enjoy it and are vocal about it make our days better in more ways than you can imagine. Muchas, muchísimas gracias, because it somehow feels more honest in my mother tongue.
Stay safe and positive, Strangers.
-GGS
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