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April 10 Update (Patreon)

Published:
2016-04-10 22:11:31
Imported:
2021-07

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It's interesting to reflect on how money affects the creative process. Specifically, the difference between doing something purely as hobby and trying to rely on it as your sole job. You do see this have a negative effect on some people, but for the most part I've found it very positive.

This past week, though, I've noticed something I'll have to watch. I was working on a new idea for a standalone game I could finish in a month and I realized that an increasing percentage of my thought process was being governed by the idea of trying to make it marketable. Some of that is fine, but it's not exactly relaxed creativity and it's a consideration that should serve your goals, not control them.


Honestly, if money was my highest priority, I should probably churn out 5-6 games with commissioned art and the most mundane premises imaginable. I've gotten access to some new numbers lately and it's pretty obvious that there's a lowest common denominator effect in play.


That's not what I want to make, though, so I'm going to keep making the kind of thing I like to play, even if it's relatively niche. Instead of trying to keep this new project in safe and marketable territory, I'm going weird. It was amazing how much more fun it was to work on the project once I gave myself that freedom.


I'll get into more detail about my specific ideas next week - I don't want to tease something that I might not take all the way, after all. But here's a report of the different projects I'm juggling as inspiration takes me:

1) Noxian Nights 1.0.0

2) Ouroboros - A little game I'm making in RPG Maker MV, but not a jRPG, more of an adventure game.

3) [Unnamed Ren'Py Game] - Going for a quick VN/sim hybrid.

4) Random Story - This one may go up with my other ebook smut eventually.

5) PayPal Bullshit (-_-)


Hopefully now that 0.17.4 is out, I'll be able to fall into more of a rhythm with these and get a lot done this month. It's been freeing so far to just work on whatever. ^-^

Comments

jack

Look at fetishes for example. Invent one in your head and someone somewhere will have made a porno of it. Be as wierd as you like :)

METD

Good for you! Its so easy to take an "easy way" out and let money becoming the driving force behind something. Staying true to what you want to do, to stick to your dreams, is so much more difficult in today's society. Money can corrupt happiness if you let it and it sounds like you're really trying not to let that happen. I'll be very happy if many people like yourself can find that happiness and still succeed in today's day and age. Keep it up! I'm glad to be able to support you in a small fashion at least! :) Also, weird is SOOOOO much more fun what's "expected" from everyone. HAVE FUN WITH IT!

Anonymous

"PayPal Bullshit" should be a parody game. I know you were just referring to getting cards approved and accounting done, but I still think you should make a game of stupidly difficult tasks to accomplish vague but mundane goals. Like toss six dozen fish into a yoga instructor's gym bag while she practices ballet on the cellphone to unlock the option to accept American Express on your website. It'd be cathartic, entertaining, and probably marketable.

Even

as long as it's STRAIGHT and don't contain any GORE or BODILY FLUIDS, except cum, i like pretty much all else! of course, not ALL else, but you get what i mean. ;)

Anonymous

I just hope you don't spread yourself too thin. I've seen it a couple of times that someone tries to do too many projects and never ending up finishing any of them. The Patreon model also plays into that, since you can milk supporters that way for a long time. I'm not saying you're doing that (actually, you give us updates pretty frequently), it's just something to consider.

sierralee
>>1632627

That's a valid concern, and obviously me just saying that won't happen isn't a very convincing response. All I can really say is to evaluate me again in three months. If I'm spreading myself thin at that time, then that will be a concern to me as well, but I sincerely hope that by then I'll have delivered a variety of completed pieces of content without losing momentum on TLS. I know I'm asking people to trust me a lot with a game of this size, so I do my best to be worthy of that trust.

Anonymous

Passion comes through in a work. It may sound trite, but I think it's important to write for yourself first and foremost, as the end result will be a better work than something you felt tepid towards but thought would resonate with an audience.

Secular Reason

So while playing 17.3 (finally! I've been too busy lately...) I noticed that the donation to the Order of Silence does not show up in the Ledger. Small thing, but yeah.

Secular Reason

Also, it is possible to go back to your rooms in the summit on day two after completing the investigation steps, but BEFORE taking Vhala back to the garrison, thus discussing the Doomed King plan right in front of her. This may not be a mistake, but I'm not sure how much she actually knows. Sure, she knows that he holds a "piece of the Incubus King's soul" but does she know what that actually *means* in any way? The people in-game think that there is only one Incubus King (at least those on Arclent outside of your party, Ginasta, Alonon, and the attendees to the summit that Ginasta told) would she realize that he was as big a threat as another Incubus King, or would she merely think him a corrupted human, just more corrupted than others? This kind of thing is key. Later talks in the Unforge make it seem that she realizes that he is indeed another Incubus King... but unless the party explained that to her, that just doesn't make much sense.

Secular Reason

Support Allies still shows as Support Servants in the "action bar" at the top of the battle screen when used.

sierralee
>>1659929

So, I'm getting to these responses late since I was on break, but I didn't want to forget about them. Regarding the Order of Silence, I didn't put it in the ledger since it's in a different mental category for me. It may end up getting added later, depending on how things are organized.

sierralee
>>1660467

No, this wasn't an intentional path. I've added a conditional and line of dialogue to indicate that she isn't just standing around for that conversation. Vhala doesn't know anything about the theory of soul shards, but she recognizes that Simon's power is different from simple corruption. So she has a sense that he could potentially be like the Incubus King in behavior, but doesn't realize that his nature is truly the same.