Some news and what to expect in January! (Patreon)

Hey guys!

I'm back from a short rest and ready to pick up work where I left it. But I must say, I really needed these few days. 

Okay, first I like to start with something that made me thinking a lot lately. Last month I got a few comments about some observations. I don't think of them as ill intended, but instead more like constructive criticisms, that some points I must agree with, and I was thinking very long how to solve some of the mentioned issues.

One of these was that I overpromise content for the month. I think I could mostly keep what I promised, but I must agree it happened multiple times, because I underestimated the time some comics would take to make or some unforseen things slowed progress that would delay things. Or just my bad time management. So, I will try to give a more realistic predictions from now, and rather say less.

So, for this month, my first project will be to finish the Game Night's fourth round during next week.

Right after that, the idea dump will be launched for the $5 and $10 backers to determine the possible penalties for the Game Night's fifth round, and right after that the voting will begin to select the 5 penalties.

And finally, I will end the month with the next update for "A Fair Trade" I'm not sure if I can finish the whole thing at once, but I will do my best.

The next valid question that I get is, when will the ending of "One hell of an initiation test!" be out? Well, i'm not sure. It's still coming, but during work I ran into some bug that often crashed Daz Studio. I think it was related to one or more character morphs combination that I used for the donkey girl. I'm still figuring out the cause, but as I moved on to work on other things, it's hard find the time to go back to it with full attention. But it will be out, I promise.

Okay, now move on the bigger issues. It's sadly true that at this point everything what I do turned into a series and there are too long gaps between some of these series. And you can believe me, I hate it the most that these are true. 

As I was thinking about this, I come to the conclusion that the following things are the reasons for this.

First, I make things way too long nowadays. I remember the time when I could do a full comic in much less than a 100 pages and upload them in one go. They were much simpler, not much character related things happening. Just short and thight focusing on the essentials. I believed that giving more attention to the characters was a good thing, a natural evolution of my comics, making things more fleshed out with more dialogues between characters. But now i'm not sure if it's not a dead end and I should just go back to the basics. I don't know, what do you think? You like the longer, more character focused comics better? Or less?

My second issue is that I stretched myself way too thin. I think the 3 longer project at once is too much and this begin when I started "Carnival of Nightmares". It throw my work schedule completely off balance. So I have that, the Game Night, and a backer short comic in the work all the time. I have planned some other things as well, but I can't squeeze them in at the moment. So I feel like the three things are in a constant struggle with each other for dominance, and I try to balance them out equally, because I know all of them have their fans, but not everyone likes them the same. Some of you like them all, others just two, or a single one. So I try to give eveyrone something each month, but here's the problem. They are shorter updates from comics that become longer. So this is my dilemma.

One solution would be to finish one in the near future. Carnival of Nightmares is probably the best candidate since its ending is already written. But i'm afreaid that after that I just start a new comic and i'm where I started, but I just love making new comics, explorirng new ideas, and you can believe me, I have a lot of ideas, just not enough time... sigh

The second option is something that some of you guys suggested, and it would make also some sense. The idea is to dedicate a month to just a single comic giving my full attention to that. My problem with this, is that those are waiting for a specific update, they could wait for two months. And not to mention that i'm already in some serious delay with the backer comics. I can't afford to delay them any further.

So this is where i'm standing now. Sorry for making this so long. It also does not help that i'm not the best in communicating. I intend to change that as well for this year, posting more often if a delay is in sight. But for all those who sticked to the end of this, what do you think? Any useful ideas? Should I change things? Leave them as they are? I'm always open to constructive discussions and criticisms.