Patreon and Project Updates (Patreon)

Patreon Problem Updates

for my TL;DR peeps from the previous post
https://www.patreon.com/posts/my-patreon-and-s-31242995 

I made a post about a problem I have with Patreon, or rather the problem of maintaining a patreon vs working on the thing you have a Patreon for.

When making something long term like a game, it's quite the challenge to recover patrons after each dip when the month crosses, over while still working on the game. 

I could post game updates each month to different websites to help market myself, but I'd rather not post unfinished content public. 

There was also an issues we ran into where I made lot of content that some were not interested in. 

The fix was in two parts:

1. Make bite-sized portions of the game standalone so I can post that around to help market my work.

2. In similar bite-sized fashion, make things you are interested in specifically. Maybe changing how a certain scenes in the game ends, or making a small scene with a character based on the setting of some existing game. These scenes would also be standalone. 

This will shift the focus on my patreon from monthly game updates (possibly of a game you are not interested in) to truly bonus content you are interested in. There is more to it than that, but all the details are in the previous post.

I decided to try this after I finish my next game.

Project Updates

The next next VN I am working on right now, I plan to just call Umichan Maiko. A very simple homage to the old school game since this game will serve as a starting point that will help introduce you to the Umichan characters and the other Umichan VN games. 

I'm still trying to finish it all this month but we'll see. It'll be tight. There will be a portion of the game playable this month as usual if nothing else.

The objective of this game will be for Maiko to get a higher entrance exam score to the GemCo sentinel Operator academy than Luma did. This game will tell a simplified version of the events of UMCH. I'm trying to have it where both the original UMCH and this game can be taken as applicable lore. 

For the 3D Arielle game, I have started making the main story missions. The artist I have for the game is also remaking some of the sex images. I also added 4 costume swaps, a drag racing minigame, particle effects to the weapon projectiles, a strip club area, and I've been working on getting menus working smoothly.