Major Changes Coming with the New Year (Patreon)

Judge Heath here! 

This is the year, hopefully, we wrap up development for the first stage of cloud meadow. We're still working on projecting just how much of an impact on our final release date the 6 months of slowed development last year when we lost Sethpup and Red-Valentine are going to impact our final schedule, but we're well over half way through with necessary development (and that was the hardest part, we've got the skeleton lain, it's time to start packing meat on the bones), and are planning on rolling out some changes in how we do things around here.

The most immediate change is that we've condensed the first $18,000.00 USD of our milestones into the core team, and detailed exactly what that means. Though the number you guys see on the front page isn't the actual value of what we earned in the previous month (We earned $19,841.24 USD, which will be forthcoming in a earnings report I'll be making later in the week when things calm down enough), we're very comfortably over the limit in terms of milestones and have been, even if the front page doesn't always display this fact properly. (This month we're up to  $17,745.52  USD already in earnings, so we're in no danger of missing the $18k necessary to keep the full core development team running). We've also condensed the next set of goals down into a much more flexible set of goals, which sets up the budget we'll have each month to hire people to work on sound, writing, and other bits and bobs.

The second change you're going to see is that each day our major team members will be taking screen shots of what they worked on that day, and we'll be posting it up for the consumption of our $2.00+ Patrons. In the case of SFW WIPs, they'll be released to the public on midnight of the following day, in the case of NSFW WIPs, they'll remain the exclusive access to our $2.00+ Patrons. It won't just be Spurple and Diesel posting WIPs however, Kodex and Ursa will be putting up flashier screens of whatever they're working on that day as well.  In addition to the expanded $2.00+ tier reward, we're discussing expansions of rewards for our $5.00, $10.00, and possibly $20.00 tiers (and would very much appreciate your thoughts on what things we could offer to make the tiers more lucrative, though of course, we're not going to implement everything everyone suggests).  You'll see the first set of WIPs today after I make this post.

We're also discussing other things to better engage our community with, and to help you guys deliver more feedback to us on what things need polishing, where we should focus on our efforts, and what parts of Cloud Meadow are the bits that you love the best and have the most fun with.

Finally, we're deeply sorry for the delays in voting this week, a good many minor characters have been recieving revisions, and we've been designing characters busts for conversations that do not require a full VN splash conversation. I've posted that above for your consumption so you can see the massive number of characters that'll be going up into the new sprite sex votes, as well as the foundation of the global popularity contest vote on our front page (which is why characters who will never be receiving any NSFW content from us are on this page, as it is meant to serve two purposes.)

Thank you so much, every single one of you, for your patronage, and your support. We look forward to working with you guys to bring this project to it's conclusion and final release!