[Public] About schedule change and plan revision (Patreon)

Today, we will be reporting you on our schedule change on our new project, "NOAR" and our plan revision.

About the playable game

We, TeamKRAMA, wanted to give back to our supporters by giving out an update three times a month.

The playable game was thought to be one of the main contents among these updates, but we're considering changing it form a playable game, to a playable movie.

Here is our reasoning and the background behind this change.

1) There just isn't enough content to enjoy as a game right now.

NOAR has just started being developed and hasn't reached a level that you could enjoy it as a playable game.

That doesn't mean we cant make it an enjoyable game, it just means that it's going to take us more time.

We think that prioritizing the actual game development makes more sense than having to work on demos that are actually enjoyable and not a mess. This brings us to our next point:

2) Preventing hinderance of the NOAR's development

Considering that TeamKRAMA isn't the biggest team, creating a playable demo is not a small feat and the overall programming during that time will have to stop.

In our previous project, Rape of the Dead, our programmer was just one person, having them work on a demo wasn't that big of a difference. Not to mention that it's hard to judge your content on your own and having more opinions is always good.

Now, we have three programmers and now it's becoming harder to tolerate the loss of development time.

Furthermore, because we wanted to release a playable game once a month, we would have had to let three people work on that for an entire week, every month. That would have had hindered the development speed by a big margin.

It was not an easy decision to make, but due to the reasons listed above, we have come to the decision that we do not want to produce a playable game so soon, and that frequent.

We are really sorry and apologies go out to everyone who was looking forward to a monthly playable game.

Even more, are we apologizing for not keeping a promise we as content creators have made to our supporters.

The substitution of this will be gameplay that will be published in the middle of every month.

We would love to create content with your support and opinions in mind.

But we're also aiming to complete this game as soon as possible, thus we're focusing on minimizing unnecessary time loss.

This does NOT mean that you are losing the privilege of receiving and playing actual releases of the playable games. We just cannot make a commitment for these things at this time, but we are still planning to periodically release playable games, according to your opinions and feedback, when the development has become more stable.

We thank you for your understanding and cooperation, but this isn't where today's update ends.

Changes in our patreon rewards

Many supporters are supporting us with 15$ per month, the platinum reward, but we are planning to add a new gold plan and transfer the viewing right of platinum to gold to support more people and be a bit more transparent.

Plans are they are now, referring to NOAR's content:

Silver plan (2$)

You can browse game specifications and illustrations posted once a month.

Platinum plan (15$)

In addition to the silver plan, you can browse playable movies to be released once a month.

You can browse development views to be released once a month.

Our planned changes:

Silver plan

You can browse game specifications and illustrations posted once a month.

Gold plan (10$)

In addition to the silver plan, you can browse playable movies which will be released once a month.

You can browse development videos which will be released once a month.

Platinum plan (15$)

In addition to the silver and gold plan, you can view platinum only articles for Rape of the Dead

We will prioritize answering your question and opinions you have.

You can participate in the reward service according to your cumulative support amount. (More details on that later.)

Note that this does not mean that we will not take opinions and not answer questions from non-platinum supporters. As always, we will try to answer everyone's question and consider everyone's opinion, but we will try to answer platinum members first. Capitalism, ho!

We're hoping to implement this change this April 2018. (The applicable content will be, hopefully, released in mid-April.)

About the benefits service according to the cumulative support amount
(usually called "individual goals")

Many people are feeling that they don't get enough content when looking at the money they have spent to support us.

At the same time, we're also hearing that people want a plan higher than platinum plan.  Things like these make us happy! :)

Therefore, we're going to release a reward service, which will be based on how much support we receive in April. You usually know this under the term of "individual goals".

We're considering to offer the following benefits according to the support we receive by platinum members (or above, if applicable)

Examples:

- Sending mails of appreciation

- Adding your name to the credits

- Presentation of a game pamphlet

- Presentation of an Ascot figure

- Naming townspeople appearing in the game

- Have your glory handed down as a legend in a certain town and have a statue set up for you.

- You can name the king and all the people in the city honor the king.

We are thinking about more various ideas. Maybe you can offer some good examples?

However, they're still just ideas and we cannot present you the money we would need to reach these goals at this tame.

We will contact you about this again as soon as we have added a reward plan higher than platinum.

Although NOAR is just starting its development, were at the stage where we have to decide how we could proceed the best.

For that reason, we may change, or 'correct' various things we have said the past few months about the project, but we hope that you can understand that. It will all be for the best of this project.

As always, we're appreciating your understanding and cooperation! Thanks a bunch!