We wish you.... (Patreon)

Hey everyone! 2019 is approaching ridiculously fast and every time we blink it seems the calendar jumps up a day.

We've been trying our damnedest to leave you with something besides a holiday inspired pic and although we had far less time than we initially hoped for, we managed to shuffle some scenes around, brought to the front what was planned for later and created a new small build.

Hopefully it's size isn't indicative of the amount of fun it will bring, but we tried to make it count.

We've released it's bughunt version for the higest tiers earlier today so if you're in that tier don't forget to give it a whirl! The early access version will be ready a couple of days later, so it should land on Christmas or shortly after.

For everyone out there who celebrates Christmas, have a great one folks! For everyone who doesn't, Merry Mooselion season! Or whatever festivity it is around this time of the year which makes your heart beat faster and brings you joy. This year has had it's ups and downs, but let's focus on the ups and hope the new year bring us lots more of those. Suck up any emotions of annoyance you have with your family during Christmas dinner, and just smile. Suck it up and push it deep, deeeep down in your gut. Once the novelty of the new year is over you can let it all out again ;)

We still have a couple of things to do (including the art asset reward) this month so we aren't 100% ready to turn off the lights and close the door to the MITY office but once all of that's done we'll go dark until that 8 turns into a 9.

While we have your attention we also want to come back on the subject we talked about earlier in the post about the email we received from Patreon. This concerns the Iroh tier ($35) patrons so probably isn't interesting for most of you, but if you are in that tier(or have been thinking on joining it) be sure to read on. 

We pretty much explained the situation about raffles in the post before this one, but to recap: Patreon wanted them gone. We asked you guys for some suggestions about alternative rewards and got a couple of interesting ones. If you sent us any, thanks a lot for thinking along with us.

We've been thinking it over, proposed some of your ideas as a possibility to Patreon in order to make sure we wouldn't get a repeat in the future of this situation and did some more thinking. We haven't been able to come up with an alternavive yet we feel we can truly be satisfied with, now and in the future.

We already mentioned considering sneak peaks, and those could most likely be very successful as a reward. Who doesn't like getting a view into the "future"? But as you also already know we very much prefer scenes to be discovered as they're meant to be - during the playthrough itself. 

So after a lot of hemming and hawing we're going to leave the $35 for anyone who wants to show additional support, but it'll have the same rewards as the $20 tier for now. We've just had too many other things to take care of and still want to have some true downtime to relax with family so we're putting thinking about this off till January.

If you joined the Iroh tier in the hopes of getting a scene ticket and are bummed that the option is gone, let us know and we'll refund your pledge. If we haven't heard from you in January we'll pm you to make sure you didn't just forget or something.

2018 has been quite a rocky year (for at least half of our team) and we're hoping the next one will be a sea of tranquility in comparance.... with deadlines actually being met etc! But whatever happens(or doesn't happen) in 2019, it won't be because we didn't give it our best. 

Thanks for everything folks, you were and still are the best.