Fantasy Dating is On Hold Indefinitely


There seems to be some confusion from itch.io players regarding the status of Fantasy Dating, so I'll clear that up in this post. Regardless of any in-game text or other older posts, the following is the most up-to-date status.

I mentioned in a previous devlog that Fantasy Dating was on hold and I want to add that it will remain so indefinitely. This was a very expensive project to develop and I hoped to garner enough support to sustain the ongoing costs. However, that was not the case and I had no choice but to end development. Additionally, due to a slew of technical issues, if this project were to resume development, I would probably have to start over.

I'm ecstatic that so many people liked my first visual novel and I hope one day I could return to its development. For now, it will remain frozen in the state of its last release (which was the Day 3 mini-patch).

Thanks again to all those who played Fantasy Dating. If you like my work, then there is another project I'm working on called Ménage à Moi, which has a demo available to play.

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I am crushed! I just found the game and love it. It's incredibly fun. I can't believe you didn't get the necessary support for the game. I SO wish you would resume your work on it. Just........crap! I'll buy Menage a Moi and watch for Motherhood to see where you take your game development - but I ain't happy about it!  :)

I'm glad you liked it. It's unfortunate that this project appealed to more niche tastes than I thought it would. Granted, some of the fundamental design decisions I went with massively reduced the potential audience. A few highlights of things players took issue with were the  Futa MC's face being hidden (apparently only acceptable for Male MC's), male love interests (especially in a POV context), and inability to choose love interests (I instead focused my efforts on kink choices).

Given the nature of how I wrote the story and coded it in Ren'Py, I couldn't reasonably change any of those aspects without a major restructuring of the game mechanics, plot, and characters.