Hello all, Improb here!

Thank you guys for having me reach 100+ downloads after a little over two weeks! This has been my first visual novel, so it has already been somewhat of an experience.

Within the first week, I have gotten 75 downloads; the majority of which were from those interested in NaNoRenO. However, the numbers began to stagnate when it reached around 90. I didn't realize that the best way to get my game known is to market it before I even start it, and that was a mistake I made. Of course, I had the outline, but I thought that since I didn't have any assets, I wouldn't be able to market it as well. Now that I have done more research, I realized that was my mistake. So after the game jam, I started marketing more, and realized just how tough it was for me to spread awareness of my game. Fortunately, I had many assets finished, so I was able to share them around twitter and garner interest. It was then when my game had finally exceeded 100 downloads on April 16th, 17 days after I first released the game demo, so a little over two weeks. Even then, the fact that I was able to upload a demo and many people have played despite it being my first game makes me genuinely happy.

I have also been promoting my game and/or posting concept art and art assets through gaming and non-gaming discords, twitter, lemmasoft.com and instagram. The most support and responses were from the discords, and even my undergraduate college discord was very interested in my project. I'm still trying to learn to market, since I'm not big on social media to begin with.

As for current and future plans, I am still working on the game. Due to the overwhelming feedback I received, however, I realize there is a lot of work that has yet to be done on my end, and I might have to prioritize fixing up and adding more scenes to the current demo rather than to further the story. Hopefully all of you guys are patient, but I wish to let you know that despite approaching nearly one month,  I am still working on the game. There is a lot that is also going on with my life now and the upcoming weeks in addition to marketing and coding the game, such as moving and starting a new job and finishing up my graduate education, but hopefully and eventually these events will balance themselves out and I can continue working on this game as a major hobby. 

The 100+ Downloads art is by dhk117. You can check his other art here.

-Improb.