8/19 Status Update (Patreon)

It's the third Friday of the month, which means Futa Oasis .7 is out for $5 patrons. It'll be out on the first Friday of September for everyone else as normal.

The main thing I want to talk about this week is about how I'm feeling kind of... overwhelmed. Futa Oasis, Naked Ambition, TF Card Battle, The Monster Within, the upcoming At the Mountains of Friendship... it's all starting to catch up to me a bit.

It's not that I don't want to work on games or anything, it's just that all these are starting to feel more obligations than fun creative projects. There's so much stuff going on that even when I'm actively working on games, it feels like I'm not. While I'm doing something for Futa Oasis I'm not doing something for Naked Ambition and it feels like I'm procrastinating even while working.

I'm the one who built these games and made these obligations, so all of this is my own doing of course. And all these projects exist because I like developing games. This past week I basically made a whole Fire Emblem style NTR game with 17 maps, tons of mechanics, skills, etc. And I made it because I was having tons of fun doing so.

But, do I release this game to people? The few people who have played it so far have said they really like it. So do I keep this piece of art hidden because I don't want the obligations, both in terms of time and money, to continue working on it for two years? 

Something like Naked Ambition has had tons of time and effort poured into it, it's a huge game. But now it's kind of close to finishing, but not really. These endings are going to take huge amounts of work to finish. And they need to be finished. But when do I do it? 

The whole thing is made worse by this Patreon existing and having all you lovely people who support me. That puts tons of pressure to release things in a timely manner, so you're not wasting your money. The funds this Patreon provides have allowed me to greatly increase the quality of my games, but it just piles onto those obligations I was talking about. And I'm still making negative money on these games, I spend more on the budget than the Patreon brings in.

So in the end this is all a hobby, but if I'm not having fun with the hobby because of the obligations I've built. what's the point? Maybe it's all in my head. Maybe people aren't actually upset things might take a long time to come out, maybe that pressure is mostly in my head. If Naked Ambition takes another three months to even move forward is that really a big problem if I'm still working hard on other things? Is that I'm working at all what's important, not what I'm working on?

I could just work on whatever I want, and have things done whenever they get done. It would be a lot easier on me. That would make this less of a "business", but it's not like this is going to be paying the bills any time soon anyway.

Okay, enough talking about my feelings, time for fun previews and stuff.

Here's some Futa Oasis art of the festival being added in .8. (Is that coming out in two weeks? Oh god, it's out in two weeks, I need to finish that.)

The player is giving some (poorly) hidden love and attention to Azra as she gives her speech.

Girl number 8 has been finished for At the Mountains of Friendship! There's only 2 left to go for the first 10.

Hey look it's that NTR focused Fire Emblem-esque game I was talking about. I'll, uh, talk more about this later.

That's all for this week. As always, thank you for your continued support.