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New Nimin Update - Progress much slower than anticipated
2 years ago
I've been meaning to put out this journal for pretty much a year now, hoping to post it when things started to turn around. But things haven't turned around, they've just gotten worse.
When I posted the journal last year announcing I'm working on a new Nimin, that was after a couple years of fairly steady progress that I had determined was sustainable enough to announce. Last year I was supposed to finish the first town and most of the major mechanics, then 2-3 towns a year after that until I was done with all 8 towns.
Shortly after that previous journal is when life started happening in force. It was nonsense after nonsense last year, slowing down my progress with distractions and anxiety. This year has gotten even worse, to the point where I haven't written anything since August because of some especially major issues. I'm still waiting to see where those issues end up, but at the moment I'm tentatively trying to build the will to get back to the game. I did get halfway through the first town so far and I've done some more major mechanics, but I'm definitely not achieving that goal by the end of this year either.
tl;dr - Progress on new Nimin is much slower than expected, so it's not coming out in the next couple years like I had hoped. I still warn anybody from getting too hyped up anytime soon, but I do plan on continuing, even if it is slow.
Related to the diminished progress, one thing that has been particularly fussy this past year and a half has been the dating scene. I'm not exactly getting younger, so I'm pushing myself into the dating world a lot, despite all the other issues going on. And it can get a little disheartening to mention my "hobby" after a month of getting to know each other and promptly seeing people balk. I don't hide my sex positivity, but when the conversations finally feel comfortable to bring it up, then having this big part of my life be a sudden no, it doesn't feel great. It's for the better though, I want to be able to be myself in a relationship.
Why do I mention my dating life in my Nimin update journal? Well, I figure if somebody is interested in Nimin, I won't run into that awkward balking as much, lol. It's worth taking the shot, right? To that end, I will be at MFF this year in Chicago (like I usually am). I'll be on multiple dating apps (CoffeeMeetsBagel, Hinge, Tinder, Feeld, Bumble). So if you're a single woman and maybe interested, check the dating apps. I figure it's better to match naturally through a dating app; we can see who each other is without necessarily knowing who I am, so there's less pressure on both of us (I know I'm not the most extroverted person XD). So just kind of a heads up there.
Anyways, thanks again to everybody for their support! If I start making significant progress again and manage to get halfway through the game, I'll try to provide another update then so it feels more real.
When I posted the journal last year announcing I'm working on a new Nimin, that was after a couple years of fairly steady progress that I had determined was sustainable enough to announce. Last year I was supposed to finish the first town and most of the major mechanics, then 2-3 towns a year after that until I was done with all 8 towns.
Shortly after that previous journal is when life started happening in force. It was nonsense after nonsense last year, slowing down my progress with distractions and anxiety. This year has gotten even worse, to the point where I haven't written anything since August because of some especially major issues. I'm still waiting to see where those issues end up, but at the moment I'm tentatively trying to build the will to get back to the game. I did get halfway through the first town so far and I've done some more major mechanics, but I'm definitely not achieving that goal by the end of this year either.
tl;dr - Progress on new Nimin is much slower than expected, so it's not coming out in the next couple years like I had hoped. I still warn anybody from getting too hyped up anytime soon, but I do plan on continuing, even if it is slow.
Related to the diminished progress, one thing that has been particularly fussy this past year and a half has been the dating scene. I'm not exactly getting younger, so I'm pushing myself into the dating world a lot, despite all the other issues going on. And it can get a little disheartening to mention my "hobby" after a month of getting to know each other and promptly seeing people balk. I don't hide my sex positivity, but when the conversations finally feel comfortable to bring it up, then having this big part of my life be a sudden no, it doesn't feel great. It's for the better though, I want to be able to be myself in a relationship.
Why do I mention my dating life in my Nimin update journal? Well, I figure if somebody is interested in Nimin, I won't run into that awkward balking as much, lol. It's worth taking the shot, right? To that end, I will be at MFF this year in Chicago (like I usually am). I'll be on multiple dating apps (CoffeeMeetsBagel, Hinge, Tinder, Feeld, Bumble). So if you're a single woman and maybe interested, check the dating apps. I figure it's better to match naturally through a dating app; we can see who each other is without necessarily knowing who I am, so there's less pressure on both of us (I know I'm not the most extroverted person XD). So just kind of a heads up there.
Anyways, thanks again to everybody for their support! If I start making significant progress again and manage to get halfway through the game, I'll try to provide another update then so it feels more real.
and best of luck!
Hope things turn out well on every front!
1. Attending fandom or events that are your interest, but you need to do a bit more., By more maybe offer to hold a panel over some things you like talking about, maybe some stories about Nimin?
2. Try Furzu (Now Grokio) and use the kink search to try and find some one that shares your interests. Make sure you set up a profile and that it's the same stuff you like to see in others, don't be shy about it. Next when you send messages make sure you include things from there profile that has caught your interest.
3. I am sure you might of found and tried, but role-play in communities could help you find someone or at least help with approaching people.
4. Don't get discouraged if things don't work out because you take stuff to the next level and there not interested. You REALLY do not want to wait till your two or three years into a relationship and find out they hate some of your desires. Rather find out sooner rather then later so you can find someone that will appreciate your kinks.
5. This is a tough one, but it has help me out greatly; Own a home or have at least a single bedroom open for a another person. Girls find it great to know that have there own private space or at least a space to have there stuff in and not feel like there trapped or that they have to give up belongings to be with you.
I too thought I would not find anyone and despite Furzu being a near garbage dump of a fire as an app, I found great success with a LOT of effort. I tried FurryMate which is NEARLY a scam site with a few bot accounts on it BUT I did find one real girl through it and only because I was a member for a month. Dating is not easy and that is an understatement and I really do understand where you are as I did not find my first true date till 2 years ago near my 33rd birthday.
Please excuse me with offering unsolicited advice if it is unwanted. I look forward to Nimin and your take on all the cool stories, kinks, and various other things that will take place in the game!
I don't. Your game was one of the first text-based sexy games I played. It inspired me to make my own sexy casual tabletop RPG game (my friends like it, at least). If I knew how to make games like yours, I'd turn it into one like yours.
Your game also helped give me an example of sex positivity. So, whether you know it or not, you made a positive impact on my life. <3
Your game was UNIQUE had things that no other tf game had like the chance of cum hands free, or grow a udder or shreed clothes, unique tfs , lovely interactions, heck even your boobs or balls was able to overflow i though they could actualy explode if left unatended, or actualy get advantages depending your character species
I hated when new fames like tits or coc2 let the tf abilities or anything that made coc1 unique, now its just a novel with super basic sex scenes and good graphics
I hope things where you are gets better to play your amazing game again
I can suggest a way to let our protagonist to held back its eggs causing swelling and eventualy inmovilization/forced lay once we reach belly limit?
Have a nice day xaendra! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Remember your game its amazing, but you are even more amazing and inportant for us! 💙
Good luck in the dating world. I found someone online in the furry realm, I'm sure you can too.
Also, neat to hear the project hasn't been dropped, just delayed!
Life is one of those things I've found HATES being ignored. Every time you try to push it aside... it only gets more and more belligerent. Don't try to beat it at its own game, it is the grandmaster and has been for billions of years.
Nimin was a wild and psychotic game that actually got me interested in the furry fandom, because of the implied inclusiveness, and because of the seeming compatibility that was almost pre-fabricated explicitly for the fandom. From the chaos of having what you eat change your appearance, and skills, and traits, to the personality of the various racial groups. My only regret about the game was not downloading and keeping the version where I unintentionally discovered a way to increase the Bag size (for a game so focused on expansion and growth, inventory is surprisingly not as flexible as our bodies...). Of course, it was a small update that fixed that potential exploit, and I idiotically overwrote the old file because I wasn't paying attention. So I had a save with 5 screens of inventory space... But I couldn't recreate it. I don't even remember what letter that update had, I want to say it was O, but my memory is only surpassed by my energy levels in disappointing me.
When it got declared as-is and was going to be completely redone, I was a little disappointed, as it seemed to be almost release quality. But if stuff doesn't vibe well then better get it handled before people can start using it against you. Don't. Rush. This gem of a game concept. Others have tried to recreate it, like Fenoxo's CoC, CoC2, and TiTS, all of which I have been avidly following, waiting for more possibilities in the body designs we can have. And... it's just not the same. The randomness of if something will work or not, or the sudden inversion of every sexual quality, or the possibility of having definitely unwanted combinations of body parts, not to mention unbounded part limits. Nimin limited based on weight capacity. Realistic. Meanwhile, my 4 foot drider character in CoC is carrying around 400 inch quad nuts and is not being pinned in place from the fleshy extrusions that are almost 10 times bigger than her. Unrealistic. And if it gets larger? Auto-reduction to 400 inch diameter. In Nimin, you get too big, you stuck, bro.
I will say TiTS is better than CoC, but it is still lacking the aspect of the unknown and uncertain.
So please don't try to feel like this game needs to be done asap, this was an absolutely crazy ride to play, and is definitely worth some TLC. Some games are quick, easy to make, churn em out every year to farm the masses of their hard-earned money... and then there's games that EA didn't make. Games that were not against a deadline, or had insane expectations, heck people may not have even known it was being developed until it was released-- and they were loving it. Then they demanded sequels, and quality goes from top-of-the-line to bottom-of-the-barrel, proving haste is the most lethal thing to a game's development.
Remember, only you know how the game was meant to really be. If you get so wrapped up in finishing the game that it takes a toll on your health, you are only hurting yourself and the game.
"You should love yourself! Most important!"
Good games are not made through backbreaking effort, but unrestrained enthusiasm. You can try to make a game that appeals to everyone, but it will never be good enough. Make the game for yourself (unless you are trying to actually profit from it, in which case ignore everything I said).
But dang, it would make a super awesome meet cute to find your kinky partner through your passion project. I'm lucky I found someone 'vanilla' but very understanding.
If someone is disappointed or weirded out by you writing fetish conent, than they're not the one for you anyways, and there's always someone out there that is a really good match for you
Nimin really helped me with my gender issues. And thanks to support from a few rare people I am curving out into my dream body. I loved lactating with that cow girl in nimin so much I even decided to start lactating in real life. Thank you so much for the inspiration.