Nocturnal Affair has reached 12k views?!

Back in 2022 I had the goal to update, polish and share a bonus scene for NA once it reached 2k downloads, unfortunately that same summer the new external hard drive I was setting up to move all of my files broke less than a week of me having purchased it (read here). I cried over years worth of digital artworks and game projects lost, then came the summer of 2023 when it happened a second time with a set of drafts I was casually writing (read here).

A great deal has happened in that span of time. I moved to using SSDs after a pleasant trial run for Steam storage, I try my best to schedule monthly or bi-monthly back-ups and then make copies of the back-ups for extra security. I took a step from game dev, tried being human for once — it has its ups and downs —. Slowly, I made my way back to crafting stories in the later half of 2024 to today.

And I feel like it's worth celebrating, regardless if it's not much of an achievement.

The project itself is 9 years old. I like to believe I've improved my Twine skills since that day I decided to switch medium right after publishing See You. I haven't stop thinking of improving NA's script since that summer of 2022. Which brings us to this post. In the coming days, I will set a poll to get help to decide which direction you think I should be undertaking to celebrate this small milestone.  

On one hand, I can keep using Twine then have it be released August this year, complete with a decent looking UI but without the background music or, shift mediums and make this a sort of interactive fiction/kinetic novel hybrid playable online for August 2026. Either way, it'll be exciting to work on. 

Let me know your thoughts via comment section or over at Tumblr!

Thank you so much for playing my silly games <3

Take care,

— S. H.