July Survey Results (Patreon)

The results from the survey is in! Hope everybody who intended to fill it out remembered to. This was really worthwhile, we got so much feedback from you guys. Big thanks!

Let us share some of the results with you! All percentages are given after the votes have been weighed depending on backer level.

Backer Satisfaction

$1 pledgers: 4.19 / 5

$5 pledgers: 3.94 / 5

$10 pledgers: 4.26 / 5

$25 pledgers: 4 / 5

Nobody seems pissed with us yet, which is at least a good sign! No rates lower than 3. We'll see how this number develops the next few months. 

Release Schedule

3% of you asked for a release every month.

40% thinks 1-2 months between releases is fine.

23% want slightly longer titles and are fine waiting 2-3 months.

and a whole 34% of you are content waiting 3+ months.

If we assign these answers the values of 1, 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5, we find that you guys are, on average, happy to wait 2 months and 12 days between each release.

Turn-ons and Turn-offs

The one thing most of us seem to be able to agree on is that consensual vanilla stuff ain't too bad, and a large percentage of you like incest.

The biggest 5 turn-ons were, in descending order:

1. Vanilla/consensual sex (85%)

2. Sibling incest (64%)

3. Cousin incest (63%)

4. Lesbian / yuri (58%)

5. Mind control (56%)

Incest is of course off the table for our games, unfortunately, because of Patreon's policies. Lesbian/yuri has never been a thing for any of us personally, but we will definitely begin adding scenes on that theme, with these results in mind. We might add a futanari cheat specifically for those scenes as well (as "futanari x girl" also was fairly popular). Multiracial (darker skinned girls) is a turn-on for 49% of you, so expect to see some darker girls in future releases (alternatively, cheats that can make girls darker).

The 5 biggest turn-offs, on the other hand, were:

1. Guro (61%)

2. Gay (52%)

3. Futanari x guy (44%)

4. Netorare / being cuckolded (34%)

5. Fisting (34%)

Some other interesting finds: though more than half of you find gay sex off-putting, as many as 11% (again, this is after vote weighing) do find it interesting. While "clop" is a turn-off for as many as 25% of you and only a turn on for 12%, 40% of you do like furry (while it's a turn-off for 21% of you). That's a larger percentage than we had expected, but it sure goes a long way to explain why the game "Breeding Season" has managed to raise so much funds here on Patreon. We're not going to release furry stuff as Marble Syrup because it is still a pretty divisive thing which also is hard to do as a cheat without re-doing all graphics... but we're actually considering setting up a separate Patreon for releasing furry versions of all of our releases, i.e. simple re-skins.

Setting

1. Western fantasy (68%)

2. Light sci-fi (66%)

3. Japanese fantasy (64%)

4. Intergalactic sci-fi (62%)

5. After the apocalypse (58%)

And "Steampunk" gets an honorable mention at 53% interested. Also mentioning this specifically because one backer was very vocal about his support for a future steampunk title..! 

While 1% more of you are interested in games set in Japan rather than in the States (34% vs 33%), which we're going to assume is more down to the VN genre being so dominated by Japanese titles, 44% of you specified you're happy for the game to take place anywhere, which we're thankful for.

Interest in Upcoming Titles

While we appreciate how hard it is to judge an entire game on just a line or two of text, we asked you guys to rate how interesting you found a couple of our future titles, from 1 to 5. These are the weighted averages: 

Tutor A: 3.58 / 5

The Alcheringa: 3.5 / 5

My Stepsister's Wedding: 3.72 / 5

Untitled Post-Apocalytpic Story: 3.78 / 5

Bron's Quest: 4.01 / 5

Untitled Zombie Thing: 3.47 / 5

My Housemate is a Maid: 3.92 / 5

"My Housemate is a Maid Chapter 2" was more popular than we had expected! "Bron's Quest" is most likely the next game we release, so it's nice to see there's a fairly large interest in the title. We think it could be pretty rad, especially when we get around to adding RPG battles to it. "Tutor A" and "The Alcheringa" will likely be pretty kick-ass, but this probably didn't come across just from our descriptions of them.

Cheats & Feedback

We got a bunch of ideas from the cheat suggestion & feedback sections of the survey. Some of the suggestions were cheats for changing boob size, skin color, hair style and other sexy outfits. Others were more technical: in-game walkthrough, indication of when variables have been changed, etc. These (and others) are solid ideas, which we'll see what we can do about. Doable cheats of course depend on the specific title, but we'll try and have the "variable change indication" implemented in our next title already, maybe as a $10 cheat or $5+ option.

In Conclusion

You seem pretty happy with us so far, and we're pretty damn happy with you guys at the moment! Hooray! Alright, don't spoil the moment, back to work!