Progress Report (November 15th 2018) (Patreon)
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Desideratum: Blood Bonds- (As I did with my other stories, for time's sake, I will be abbreviating this henceforth as D:BB.) I have begun working on this project and it is going to be a doozy! But, a very fun and enjoyable doozy! I will be posting pictures of my progress as well. As always, I try to be transparent, and spend time to ensure you are all aware of my progress. In this current part of development, there will not be much to actually play as I am making all the models that will be used, like I did in C:I, so, I am guessing that around Xmas will be the first release. I am hoping to have Chapter 1 redone with Chapter 2 also complete and the first monster fights, which leads into Chap 3.
Looking at the votes, I think this will be the way to go. If one does NOT want to spoil the correct order of monster fights for themselves, then they can simply not look at it (I will also make a spoiler warning screen every release until the last release to help people as well). So, later today I will post you a picture showing the first batch of monsters I made the past three days! I have their battle sprites rendered and ready to go, so now I will turn to the next group. I'll continue this until the bulk of models are done because, IF I am able, I can always get more updates done if I am not having to stop to make new models between every update, if that makes sense. So, maybe I can even release two chapters in one release again, like I plan to do at Xmas.
F:CoC - So, you may or may not have noticed that I did not hit my patreon goal. This is very unfortunate. I am sort of stuck here, and please comment and leave me advice if you are interested in seeing Factions completed. As you all know, if I do not hit my goal, I cannot afford to make this game. AT best, I might be able to continue but, it will be insanely slow. I might be able to budget (if I maybe do not go out to do anything every month like eat out or watch a movie, and maybe eat a lot of peanut butter and bread for my meals), I might, get $200 a month or so. My life will suffer, but such is the life of an artist anyway, I suppose, however, that $200 will likely only buy the rights to one or two songs, or I might be able to talk Blank into taking it to do something, but it's not a lot of money.
To again put it into perspective the demo everyone played cost me about $4,000 of my money, and Blank programmed for free, so if my Patreon stays where it is, it might take 2 to 3 years for the next update? I guess. I honestly don't know. If Blank will keep programming for free, it might help, but, it will still be incredibly slow going. People vote with their wallets, I am told, and maybe they did not like Factions that much. I don't know what else I can do, so if you have any advice or comments, as I said, feel free to let me know. If I can't hit the monthly goal, I just do not know how any real progress can be made.
General News - Not much to report here. I spent MANY hours promoting Factions. Uploaded it to itch.io, many forums, tweeted, YouTubed, did live Q&A's, I think I did just about everything one man can do. Added together I have no idea how many hours I poured into advertising it. Anyway, I am VERY excited about D:BB! Just sketching out the story and monsters- which will lead to very sexy transformation bad ends- makes me thrilled to get to finally get this tale out to the world. It's going to be lots of fun!
As always, questions, comments, and feedback are welcomed!