My New Family
Progress Update | 24/02/2025
Hello there you super cute and extremely wholesome people!
Another week, another progress update!
I just have a short update regarding my case, my lawyer called me last thursday to basically tell me "I requested an update on the case file in december 2024 and didn't hear back from the state attorney since then", which basically sums up Germanys law system in a nutshell. Seriously, I started to look up similar cases with heavier accusations and it's all the same, they take their sweet time for everything. It's annoying as hell. Oh well.
Let's jump to the games now.
I'm now at the part of the Chapter 4 snippet where the MC and Sabrina will think back to a certain event that will happen in the prequel as well. Once I realized that it's kinda funny, since you play a portion of Chapter 4 of the main game and then a portion of Chapter 2 of the prequel. I know this might not be for everyone and it's totally fine if you don't want to play the snippet since you prefer for the full release of Chapter 4. Like I said, this is mainly for my state of mind regarding the main game, since it has been so long since I made renders for it. Writing is always nice, but writing and rendering gives a different feeling. Still, the prequel will get a lot of love after this from me since I really want to push the stuff there forward, after the great feedback I got from you guys ( and the demand for more haha ). I plan for the MC and Jackie to explore their feelings a little, for example, something that will be very new to both of them since they have such a strong friendship. It's going to be very interesting for me to write stuff like that because I remember when I was in school, I had two friends who had been best friends for a long time and then developed feelings for each other. It didn't have a happy end though so I'm going to make sure that it will have one in the prequel ( or maybe it doesn't have to end at all? ). Todays render is Sabrina blushing on the couch because now that the MC remembers everything, she is a little shy again.
I'm also more and more leaning into continuing using Honey Select 1 for My New Family 2. I heard a lot of feedback from people on the Discord, here on this site and on a certain forum that they like how HS2 is more modern, but they would prefer to have My New Family 2 in honey select 1. I guess I just have to see if I can make it in a decent way, mainly because that engine is pretty old. Still, I'll probably start to create Lucys and MCs tenant and see how I feel. If you want to know what this version of MNF2 would look like you can play the Christmas Special I released in December 2023, I used some different honey select plugins there to make the game look a little better. I don't know, I'm still open to hear any feedback regarding this from you guys. But I guess I should show characters first in order for you to judge, right?
One additional info for you itch.io people: A playable 0.14 version for newer android devices has been uploaded here!
And I think thats it for now people. If anything new comes up I'll let you guys know. Snippet is ready very very soon. Stay awesome!
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Just keep hanging on killer. It won't be much longer in the long run. Have faith
A vote with the lowest weight, because it's coming from someone who doesn't like HS at all. HS2 would be the way to go to attract those of us who don't like them because its the least bad of the two. :)
But as a fan of things, I can see how staying with the original engine would be more palatable to the original fans unless you can manage to import/reproduce the models faithfully in HS2. And that would be a ton of work up front to invest on a gamble.
I would honestly recommend honey select 2, especially for a higher chance of getting new people to play mnf2. Honey select 1 does already feel a bit dated, and if you plan to update mnf2 as long as you did the first, the difference to other, newer games would be potentially quite big. I would also think that a lot of people who currently dislike the look of horny select 2 would Stil get used to it fairly quickly. Although ultimately it's of course your choice as you know more about the game and your community. I will definitely play it either way.