Kickstarter pre-launch details! (7 days left!) (Patreon)

7 days from now we'll launch our kickstarter for Messy Academy! I'll jump right into it, important details first.

Check out the pre-launch url/page below. Bookmark, follow it, apply for notifications, etc.
>>Here<<

Launch date: October 5th 2020.
Launch time: 9:30AM Central Time (US) CDT  UTC-5

(We know timezones are an issue, but we believe that the time above is a good balance for those in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, etc. We hope this time works well for you.)

In case you have missed it, you can see our video trailer for MA. >>Here<<

~Rewards~

[Pledge $3]
-Kickstarter exclusive news posts. (general news, voting polls, behind the scenes posts)
-Access to Discord Server.

[Pledge $10]
-Previous rewards.
-Kickstarter exclusive news posts plus. (art previews)
-Receive this month’s patreon exclusive game update. [This would be update 0.15]

[Pledge $12]
-Previous rewards.
-Receive this month’s patreon exclusive game update and the next month’s! (2 total exclusive updates) [This would be update 0.15 & 0.16]

[Pledge $18]
-Previous rewards.
-Name in credits as kickstarter backer.
-Receive this month’s patreon exclusive game update and the next month’s, along with the month after that as well! (3 total exclusive updates) [This would be update 0.15, 0.16 & 0.17]

[Pledge $35]
-Previous rewards.
-Digital artbook & Digital soundtrack. [This will be offered later as a patreon reward for roughly the same price.]

[Pledge $45]
-Previous rewards.
-Official digital guide book. (helpful tips, walk through, etc.) [This will be offered later as a patreon reward for roughly the same price.]

[Pledge $60]
-Previous rewards.
-Gain all monthly patreon exclusive game updates until the game is finished! [This is roughly offered on patreon now too if you sign up annually. This might be the better deal given we're looking at being done early 2022.]

[Pledge $120]
-Previous rewards.
-Gain all monthly patreon exclusive god mode game versions until the game is finished! (This allows you to access all character routes without the normal gameplay restrictions.)
-Access to high definition HD versions of CG art pieces from the game!

[Pledge $150]
-Previous rewards.
-Acrylic character standees. (your choice of 3 of 9 characters)

[Pledge $225]
-Previous rewards.
-Custom Messy Academy physical scroll poster & digital desktop wallpapers! (based on a cg scene in game during the idol event.) [These are a limited time reward, offered through kickstarter only.]

[Pledge $325]
-Previous rewards.
-Acrylic character standee. (all main & side characters. The complete collection!)

[Pledge $400] [Limited reward: 5 people only]
-Previous rewards.
-Design a supporting/side character. (3 outfits, more than basic expressions and seen at least 4 times in the game if not more. Will be part of their own club and have impact on being friends with select characters in the game. This can only be a female student.)

[Pledge $475]
-Previous rewards.
-x2 Body pillow Covers. (Choose from 2 of the main girls. One side has them clothed, the other side in their diaper/bra.) [Important: Doesn't include pillow!] [This reward doesn't offer the support/side character from the previous backing tier.]

[Pledge $700] [Limited reward: 2 people only]
-Previous rewards.
-Design a unique story character. (4-5 outfits, all expressions range and seen through the game as much as the main characters. You can choose a male transfer student with their own route where you play as them, romancing girls in the game personally. Or you can choose a female student who has her own route to be seen in the game.) [Important: This reward cancels out the supporting/side custom character.]


~Q&A~

What if the kickstarter fails?

Let's hope not! But if we don't reach our base goal of $4000 usd. We will attempt to relaunch and test our luck again, if this happens and you had already secured one of the limited rewards. We will look at possibly letting people transfer that over to the relaunch, it isn't set in stone yet.

What if I want to support you guys, but due to X I can't?

Depending on what X means, we do have a patreon as means to support us there. If you can't use kickstarter, but want a reward please wait until the kickstarter page is live/launched. Then message me through patreon, discord or our email that you want to support. We can try working something out, this will still be a first come first serve and we'll look at timestamps of messages to be 100% fair.

If you can't support us with funding, there's always other ways to support us instead. We always really appreciate feedback, bug reporting, suggestions or just your general enjoyment for the game or dislike for the game even. Share the word of us around in the communities of interest, feel free to share our public version of the game and try helping us out. However you support us, we like you all the same! ^^

I supported you and want to share the latest patreon update of the game to my friends, can I?

We would prefer if you didn't as we do try to offer a fair trade off already between public vs patreon exclusive updates only being 1 month apart always. But with most things on the internet, if people want to do this, they will and there isn't much to stop it.

Not everyone will choose to support us and that's okay, just please understand that we do run off of the support to pay for assets needed. It's thanks to that, we're able to be where we are today with the project. (Thank you!)

Will you try doing future kickstarter launches for Messy Academy or future games?

The idea is that this kickstarter launch will help cover most of the funding needed for our CG art for the base game. So with that said, we don't want to "double dip" or ask for more than what we really need by any means. We do have plans to offer the fully finished game on steam and itch for about $15 sometime early 2022.

Of course those who support us on patreon or kickstarter at a total of $15+ before then will be offered free codes to either platform, as a extra thank you.

We might possibly try kickstarter again with future projects, this will depend on what it is and how this launch worked out in the end.

Jump to the year 2022, Messy Academy is finished. What next?

We have a couple ideas floating around currently, but it's still too early to really say or confirm anything. We'd rather not try splitting our focus from the right now to think about our future projects yet.

We do have some small game ideas in mind and will be our big break from this big project now. After that, we could see another pretty decently big project by maybe 2023. All roughly guessing the future here and how things can go from now, until then.

Messy Academy sequel, side stories, after story, prequel, etc?

I'll only confirm some of this, as some of it is a bit up in the air right now.

Prequel - I doubt we'll do any prequel of Messy Academy. At most we'll see some free dlc that dives into the past of some characters to fill in some gaps in their personal stories. This should be noted there wouldn't be sexual content in these.

Side stories - We would like to spend time on doing some side stories of popular characters that don't get as much focus in the game. It's something where it will depend on how things go and the demand for it.

After story - We have some plans for this, it'd be more like a small standalone game that isn't very long. Maybe 2-3 hours max and see what happened after the events of the game's ending.

Sequel - While it's a exciting idea, we won't go into detail right now. Maybe later in the future we'll have more details.

~End~

Personal thoughts, the realization is starting to really kick in about the launch of our kickstarter. It's really surreal to even think this is happening, even if in the worst case. If we fail on the kickstarter, just knowing we gave it our best shot on their platform is crazy to think about.

All I can really say is I don't want to set myself up to be disappointed and I'd like to remind everyone that no matter how the kickstarter ends in results. We'll continue to do our best each month as we have been for the past year working on Messy Academy still.

(Expect more kickstarter related posts in the days leading up to launch, as a countdown of sorts and reminder.)