New Blake's sprites + something about future (Patreon)

Hello. Time for another load of our best boygirl's sprites (with the new hairstyle you voted for), and some of mu musing about the future of Shattered.

First of all, I want to welcome all the new supporters who joined us recently, Thank you very much! I hope we'll become good friends :)

Second, it seems that the new schedule option is winning the poll (albeit with only half of patrons voting so far, I still need your opinion!), which means I can plan v0.10 in slightly different fashion than usual.

Until now Blake's life mostly resembled a baseball bat with nails stuck in it. With bat being the main story progression, and nails being the short route events growing out of the main course. I want to change that. I want to radically cut the number of «hub» events (which are the same for every playthrough), but make them much, much more meaningful. Basically, turn them into something like Samuel's gay club from v0.3, or Rebecca's party from v0.4, but even bigger: with lots of potential outcomes, some of which being low-key and even cryptic. As for the route events, these must become way, way more comprehensive, so much so they actually feel like Blake's actual life, and not just short sequences in the midst of something else. They should also have easy to understand resolutions, mostly dependent on Blake's actions. Basically, something like this: Melinda tells him to do something, he refuses or fails, and spends the night in a cage (not the chastity cage, an actual metal box which you could see in her dungeon). Or he complies and gets rewarded. Something like this. I'm can also forget about numeric restrictions and put, say, five relatively short events on one route, and three much bigger ones on another, providing the substantial amount of content, while also keeping the story needs in mind. All that is going to feel more fluid, and less formulaic. And, again, you'll be getting the demos in usual time, and they will be just as big as my regular versions, just shorter (but way wider).

Of course, if by some miracle the rest of the votes will go to the «keep the current schedule» option, just forget everything I said above. 

So, that's about it. Stay tuned for the event poll tomorrow, and a story poll the next day. Cheers!