With this post, I wanted to give you guys insight into my plans going into the future. When will Serenity and Last Human end? What kinds of ‘games’ will I do after those? Will I continue to work on 2 games in tandem?
First of all, let’s get acquainted with yours truly… My name is Mike. I’ve used the nickname N2TheFire online for various things, going back to AOL in the 90’s. I answer to Mike, N2, and Fire. In the adult visual novel community, among developers, I am probably considered the most ‘vanilla’ with my content. And there is a reason for that. It’s because the ‘p0rn’ aspect of my content isn’t my top priority. My top priority has always been the story. But I do enjoy a good romance scenario, and I don’t mind the adult content. So, I try to write a good story and creatively add NSFW content where appropriate. With Serenity, there is a lot of NSFW. It was my first game and arguably done too quickly with a lot of bad decisions made during development. But you learn and move on. With Last Human, I tried to slow down a bit and stretch the character interactions a bit more.
Serenity: Currently, Serenity is in its 2nd chapter with no plans to go into a 3rd. This story will run its course and end with chapter 2. I’ve spent 5 years on it, and I think it’s far beyond time to bring it to an end. So, over the course of the next updates, it will be in the ‘endgame’ stage. The appearance of Anastasia in episode 3 is the beginning of the endgame content. The next update will add episode 4, with plans to end the story at episode 7 (possibly 8 depending on how things go). Now, I’ve gone back and forth on the thought of redoing/reworking Serenity (Chapter 1), especially the beginning. At some point, I would still like to do this, but I haven’t made any concrete plans yet. Working on one game keeps me pretty busy as it is. Working on 2 in tandem, well you can imagine I have little time to put into a rework as it stands right now.
Last Human: This one will (more than likely) be around for season 2 for sure. I have enough ideas and notes to even go into a 3rd season. But we’ll play this by ear. Season 1 has mostly been more like a prologue, only getting into the ‘adventures in space on a starship’ beginning around episode 4. And even then, we really don’t leave the Pantherian/Sol systems until around the end of episode 5, or early episode 6. So yeah, there will definitely be a second season for Last Human.
Viral Affair: This one is a story I wrote quite a few years back and have rewritten several times over the years when I thought about different ideas. During the small moments of spare time that I’ve had while working on Serenity and LH, I began to outline and draw up a plan to make Viral Affair into a VN. I very much liked where it was going and feel like it could be one of my best VNs. However, I don’t know if I’ll be able to work on this one in tandem with Last Human (after Serenity ends). Viral Affair will have choices, branches, and actually be a ‘game’ where choices change and create different outcomes. I have 2 separate outlines written for it, one that is my normal “kinetic” pattern for visual novels, and one that is completely interactive (but not sandboxed). If I choose the fully interactive option, I won’t begin developing it until after Last Human, which could be quite a while. There are a lot of variables for me to consider… like, if I make enough money on subscriptions that I can retire from my full-time job early, that will change things drastically (more on that below). But Viral Affair is definitely a project I want to work on in the near future.
Viral Affair is a pretty cool story where you (the MC) falls in love with a girl who has to live inside an airtight shell. You can’t touch her. She deals with severe mental issues due to her predicament. The MC is a kind of therapist that gets hired by rich and famous people to help them through various things. And this girl’s family is rich. A special ‘room’ was constructed for her with a glass wall area where visitors can come sit and talk to her. The image for this post is an idea I had for the ‘game cover’, although not a final version. This is a slow burning, long story with a happy ending. It will have NSFW content with a few other secondary girls, but only one main girl as your love interest. Being a therapist for the rich and famous has its pros, but also some pitfalls along the way. The story will have drama, but nothing triggering outside of a few situations with the main girl. Some of the girls will be slightly ‘tsundere’ with him at first, but MC has an ability that makes him so good at what he does – it’s why the rich and famous seek his help in the first place. I think people will love it… it is like nothing else out there so far.
N2TheFire Games Future: Most of my current followers know that I have a full-time job in IT. That job keeps me very busy both during normal work hours and many times outside of those hours. I am 57, so I am getting close to a point where I can retire. I originally planned to retire at 62. But it could happen earlier if I got enough support doing these AVNs. Being completely transparent here, I’m making right at around $1k per month right now on this stuff. And unfortunately, that isn’t enough yet to consider retiring earlier than 62. Our vehicles will be paid off in less than a year, so I have to wait at least that long for sure. But we also have a few credit cards we want to pay off and get rid of too. If I was to make triple that amount doing this, I could pull off a retirement as early as the end of next year (2025).
So, what happens if I retire? That’s easy… visual novels become my full-time job. Updates will come out a LOT faster. Retiring from IT frees up more than 10 hours a day that I wasn’t able to spend on developing my games. That is a big deal! I would actually be able to spend my evenings relaxing and clearing my head for work the next day. Content will improve because I’ll have more time to learn better techniques and perfect my writing as well. There is just too many to list. So, if you love my work, and have the ability to support, please do so!
This website: I created this to have ‘my own’ place to post stuff. Later I will work on setting up a downloads and special access area where subscribers can get my games and tons of special renders. It will be a password protected page where subscribers on my Patreon or SubscribeStar will get the new password each month in a private message. I’ll keep you updated on that situation. I probably need to upgrade my bandwidth first.
That’s it for now. Keep an eye out for new posts here. There may be things posted here that you won’t find on Patreon (or my other sites) since this is my personal site.
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