Aims for October 2023 and September in Review! (Patreon)

Hey-ho one and all, here we are again to call wrap on another month and keep up our accounting on our goals and how we’ve progressed on them. This last month as been a real zinger in many ways, with a lot accomplished and renewed vigour behind our keystrokes again. However, it’s not been enough momentum yet to push us beyond the behind the screen accomplishments to the ones you get to experience in your livingrooms (or where you do your sexy… That one’s probably not it, right?). Still, the post must go on, so we’ll jump right into our list and what we’ve got to show for ourselves where it counts so you can help keep us honest, as they say. Let’s give it a go, so.

Our September Goals:

- Agents of Heels v0.26 to the Daring fans. Failed – Missed the mark on our top goal again, but missed it by ohh… ‘---’ <- That much. This time it came down to the wire to get things done by the end of September as per our goal, but it ended up not to be as we tackle the stubborn ending to the version at hand. You see, it ends on a long note that lives up to the “Corrupt” name, and the quality jump up that appears halfway through thanks to the new machine is jarring. We’ve had to go back and redo a handful of images in the first half now we’ve seen them side-by-side, and in doing so we’ve bumped up the effects and body counts along with it (it is a big mission with folk all around after all!). We’re sorry that it’s still not in hand, but it shall be shortly, and we’ll see to it September folk get their links for sure, but for now it’s a missed tick, 0-1. Onward we go.

- Official Handover to Noemi’s v0.21, Complete with Public Teaser Plating. Failed – Failed once again, and once again for the same reasons. However, we won’t let it get us down because we can already taste Italiana in our mouths again and it wasn’t a good idea at all to jump ahead and make a mess of Noe in any way other than the sexy kind. Couldn’t push this one on before we got Nat’s pants back on and then off again, right? Still true, so no tick for us and a knock on the shoulder. Let’s move on and make good on this as soon as we can!

- Status Reporting on the State of Machine X, Our New Machine-In-Progress. Complete! – Good news, ahoy! We managed to speed up the process and get all the parts we needed for a new machine, in hand in in place by the mid-month at that! Suck it Black Friday, we never wanted to have to wait on you anyways, even as a backup! What a beauty we have on hand now too. She’s been a wild one to tame though, getting her up to speed, all installed and everything fixed from the transfers, carried out as and when needed and not before. She’ll pay us back though, plenty. Going to build the beWilderverse on her back starting already! This one’s a tick then, huzzah! Now to get her outputting so we can get even more ticks!

- Posting, Discording and Twittering (Xing too, but not on Twitter, har-har!) as Communication is Still Key to Community! Partial (50%) – Another one that’s a tick, but we’ll also concede perhaps not quite the full tick. Would that be fair? We didn’t have a lot in the way of post’em ups on the Patreon page this month which is something we want to change, but at the same time it’s mostly been because pushing the nose further into the grindstone with more scene writing felt a better use than our time for our fans then to pop up weekly with baby steps of the week. That said, we did make sure to check in as to the status of progress along the way. Along with the news of our new PC, we were regulars on Discord, even having a full public preshow convo of the PC parts as they were stacking up, chatter and fan befriending too. We’ve been on our Twitter account and hitting milestones there (500+ followers, yay!) and even started up a Cohost and more to come (because Twitter’s top rungs these days we don’t care to help enrich, as little as we can anyways). We’ve been alive and kicking, keeping in touch as best we can throughout, so it’s fair we feel to say we achieved something, though again our Patreon page could have been more vivacious, so lets call it half the battle, yeah?

So do you remember, the goal list tonight, for September? Earth, Wind and Fire we may not be but we can still jive! But for real, what’s the score on the board by the end? Have we chased those clouds away? Well, no, not yet, we’re sad to say, as we’ve hit on 37.5% (1.5/4) once again as the main goals still prick us as we stay hanging in there with our caretaking efforts. Not great, honestly, we know, and we’ll accept that. However, you may have noticed from our tone throughout this post, we’re not as downbeat as we have been in times before like this as we know full well the future is brighter and we’ve got momentum now! We just couldn’t build up and roll out everything we needed for a release in time for the end of September like we were so hyped up ourselves for, but it’s all moving at last. Just a little more ahead to push for and we’ll crest that difficult mountain peak and start sliding down the other side with some speed!

What to expect in October:

- Agents of Heels v0.26 to the Daring fans. Still our top goal, no change there. Wouldn’t it be terribly odd if all of a sudden it wasn’t? We’ve got the game near ready to build up in engine, it’s just a matter of reeling in our renewed excitement and ambition now we’ve got some powerful playthings and finally finding a happy point of compromise for a stunning release. Not much else we can say but time we mosey it along and get her sent out at last, so once again this is our headline goal. Come on October!

- Official Handover to Noemi’s v0.21, Complete with Public and Backer Teaser #1 Plating. Once again, we’re keeping this one, because Noemi’s up next and we’re going to move on her right-away. First bus from NYC to Philly, we’ll be in all the seats at once! Now, we are not putting the full game release as our goals for October on account of we’re working on 6-week cycles now if you remember and October in full isn’t even that long, but also we don’t want to overpromise once again. We’ve got v0.21 built in engine, tested and near ready to go once the art’s done to, and with our new machine the usual amount of time it’ll take for renders to be put through the GPU is way down, so we’re hopeful we might see a speed up of things in our first real release test of our sexy new beast. However, we also have some other goals and limits testing to do, so before we find out if we can make fast versions, bigger versions, neither (unlikely) or both, we don’t want to get the hopes up that high. Maybe soon though, maybe soon! The heart of the goal is to get a move on and shake a leg on Noemi again. We’ll let you know what’s to come with her, how we’re doing and even a sneak peak at image contents too by the time October’s over!

- A Page Blazing Series of Posts as We Get Back to Fun, Girls and Sexy Things for the beWilderverse. Now that we’ve got our own pep in our step again, and the hardware to back it up too, it’s time we made the page here as lively as it once was and we’ve got a number of fun posts in mind to get both that to happen and to test out our new limits on pics creations in an exhibition type bout before we go expanding our belts on game releases now. Both quantity and quality. We won’t be kicking things off until AoH is settled and released, though so don’t worry. We’ll have and intro post to tell you all about the goals within this goal as it’ll run longer than just October (and for those who actually bother to read these posts this far, congrats, you get to know it’s actually bww!23 we’re doing before anyone else. *Shh*!), and then a whole lot of tasty to see as we met those goals and have our fun again. Be ready to get your hype on and enjoy more sightings of girls around here all year! We’re hyped for this one!

- Keep on Posting, Discording, Twittering, and Now Cohosting Too As We Keep On Stayin’ Alive! Onward we go as we turn good news about hardware into actual stuff that matters and make sexy happen! Time we get back on our feet, get our games together, and then rebuild our community again in that order, and we shall! Expect to see us on Discord as always, Twitter for wider community interactions, and now new places for us like Cohost because we don’t want to be part of the problem that is Twitter even if we can’t quite quit it as a society yet (here’s hoping it gets better rather than the world leaves). Still, we’ll be around to be more than just alive, we’ll be Stayin’ Alive and getting disco energy back to our dreams of sexy! Oh, and we also have a birthday to celebrate too, which isn’t bad at all either. So happy times ahead at last!

Alright then, ladies and lady-loving gents, that is yet another wrap from us! We have but one more thing to say as always before we leave it, and once again it’s perhaps the most important. The fact we’re so chipper in this post is because we’re on our way back, and we could only hang in there so long thanks to the unwavering support from the beWildernauts who have been with us through part and all of our hardest times. Thank you our dear supporters, thank you sincerely and with all we have in us. It’s not at all a stretch to say it’s you guys that have made it even possible we’re still standing, let alone shooting for the stars once again! Thank you, and here’s to living up to what you remember of us to have stuck around.

And that’s both our accounting covered and the future steps laid bare, dig in, enjoy, hold fast to delighted hopes, and we’ll see you shortly as we make October the start of our comeback at last! Until then…

Be October rising, and beWilder!