Investment Round 4 - 3000€ Goal (Patreon)

It's been a really long time since we had one of these.

Currently the budget distribution is as follows:

• 2D Artist: 700€
• Mapping: 200€
• Writing: 200€
• Assets: 100€
• Pixel Art: 100€

Although I admit I keep plundering the pixel art pot for the other areas (extra maps, writing, etc.) :'D. It's time to take a look at the next investment options. I have prepared a couple of options where we can increase our monthly investments and for what the money would be useful for.

2D Artist: The current budget of 700€ is quite good to mostly fill our artist's workload. However, there are some times where he works faster and I had to wait a couple of days or maybe even a week to the next Patreon payout. I would put the 100€ aside for such times so that I eliminate these waits. Note that this is definitely not enough to crazily speed up the art production speed, but maybe we would have 1 CG more today or something like that.

Assisstant Writer:  The writer budget is with the latest milestone mostly up to speed. I still need to quite strongly limit the writer in his word count when it comes to including alternative texts when certain checks are filled (e.g. Aura has What A Lovely Smell And Taste). If we put one more investment round here, I will have decent amount of freedom to commission such details without worrying as much about the word count.

Pixel Artist: Aka the money pot I always steal for when I need more maps or more words in the scenes. It's kind of a problematic budget field, because pixel art is so expensive, just comissioning a set of pixel clothing empties it right now. With another 100€ in the pot I could start on project "make the main character pixel sprites fit their 2D artwork".

General Assets: The general purpose budget for buying new RPG Maker assets. Mostly  asset packs containing visual stuff. I don't plan to introduce a whole music/sfx budget section, but if I increase the budget to this I would be able to have another look at commissioning a couple of custom tracks. 

Sadly, I can't really give a good tl;dr this time around. The individual pros are becoming a more and more complicated as the "bang" we get for a 100€ isn't as huge of a splash as it used to be at the beginning of this journey.

Nevertheless! I believe there are some good options. Personally, I would just go with the "simplest" solution and increase the artist budget by 100€, since artwork is also kind of the limiting factor that I cannot compensate in any other way but putting more money toward it.