A thank you to fans of MKM!!! (Patreon)

Hello Everyone!

As the development of the game continues to move along nicely, I must make a confession: I'm very bad at marketing the game lol.

When  I talk with fellow adult game developers, they are unanimous in saying  that proper marketing is very important and vital for a game's success  and of course that I can objectivity understand that notion, but... the  truth is that I'm not really into it, and also I'm a solo developer so  in order to dedicate time to make good marketing I have to stop  coding/drawing and divert my time from these tasks that actually advance  the development, in order to go around the web promoting the game.

It  honestly surprised me how much time and effort it takes to do good  marketing and draw attention back to your game without coming off as  spam, annoying or pushy. I'll be honest, before making games I used to  dislike marketeers in general and used to think that it must be easiest  most effortless job in the word... well, I stand corrected and take back  my words, and give a shout-out to marketing people because I personally  don't have the energy for that task hahaha :-)

This is why the  previous (and only) round of marketing postings that I did for MKM was  more than a year ago, and even then they were mostly me posting a few  gifs on reddit on their appropriate sub-reddits.

Now thankfully  and despite my weak marketing, the fanbase and support for the game has  grown beyond my wildest expectations, mostly due to organic growth via  word-of-mouth; fans of the game make posts and comment on places and  forums relevant to hentai game discussion. 

Some fans even have showed to me some of those, but a good portion of the growth comes from places  that I don't even know about!My dream is to become a full fledged indie game developer, working on  it full-time 6 days of the week and to do that your support continues  to be amazing as it leads me closer and closer to that goal, as  currently I'm making games as a side-job, part-time hobby if you  will.

So I want to thank you very much to all of the anonymous (and  otherwise) supporters who not only lend me their direct patronage, but  also indirect by talking and posting about the game to help spread  awareness of it. Your support, constructive criticism, suggestion and  nice words of encouragement are the fuel that keeps my motivation  burning at maximum capacity!

And finally as an answer to folks who send me nice messages saying  that they love the game but unfortunately they can support me directly  monetarily but they wish they could, a super helpful alternative is to  help spread awareness of the game in the same way as the other fans do:  simply by posting and commenting in discord, sites, forums and threads  around the web you're helping spread the game around!

But please, only do it if you feel in your heart and if you genuinely  like the game and want to help spread awareness of it. I really don't  want to force people to be my marketeers when I myself I'm not doing it  as I should. 

I've created some animation gifs that I'm using for this 2nd round of marketing, and I've linked them in a recent devlog on itch.io's MKM page, as well as a in my blog (both are a copy-past of this post, but have links to the gifs at the bottom).

Well this about wraps it up. Thank you again for your time, and I give you my best regards!
Laek