Patreon's future (Patreon)

As the proverb says: "All good things must come to an end"

BUT it's not the end of my Patreon, not at all. It's only the end of the pin-ups, as I already had anticipated a few months ago.

Why I decided to stop doing them? First of all, the Patreon money was on a steady decline, so that I was almost using it entirely for the pin-ups. And that's not a smart business move.

Second, because I think I should use all the money from Patreon to improve the games themselves. Pin-ups were a fun thing to do, to see different versions of characters from my games. But I think that most people who supported me here wanted to see better games from me, rather than simple pin-ups.

I spoke with many other VN devs who have a Patreon, and basically all of them just provide sneak peek and talk about the stuff they do without any extra stuff. So, I thought I was wasting some money doing the pin-ups, for something that most of the people didn't really care for.

Indeed, when I realized that I probably wouldn't be able to do the pin-ups anymore, around April/May of this year, I started using all the Patreon money to add more art to the current game in development, TFTU: Lilith. And the result is that it will be my game at $15 pricetag with most art ever !

This is the "bad news", but I also have a good news... that I'll reveal at the end of the month (also because I'm still seeing if it's possible to do it, haha).

So that's it: this month marks the end of the pin-ups era. Was fun, but from now on I'll use all the money I get from here for the original purpose: make the games better.

Thank you for your support!