Investment Round 5 - 4000€ Goal (Patreon)

Currently the budget distribution is as follows:

• 2D Artist: 800€
• Mapping: 200€
• Writing: 200€
• Assets: 200€
• Administrative: 100€

If you have been following the previous investment rounds, you may notice the disappearance of the Pixel Art budget. Since I kept ending up using the budget for other areas I dediced to merge it into the general "Assets" pot.

Anyways, I have been thinking about what options would be the most efficient for investing the next 100€ into once we hit the 4k goal. Here's what I would say are the most efficient investments.

Assistent Writer: Usually the monthly bill ends up in the region of 200-250€, so basically already going over budget. Adding 100€ here would allow me and our assisstent writer to worry less about the monthly budget and word limit.

RPGMaker Developer: As the game's growing bigger and complex and also my workflows growing more efficient, I believe it is now time to consider throwing some money at an RPGM dev to support me. Bugfixes would be the first priority. But also for example he could script the cut-scenes for the assisstent writer. I have also improved my process so for every scene, including corruption scenes, I first write a manuscript text and then script it. I could leave the latter part to a RPGM dev granted that he knows a bit about arranging cut-scenes. Though with 100€ we probably won't get far here. It might make more sense to wait with paying an RPGM dev until after we reach the 5k goal for me to go independent, as I will after that increase the amount of money that gets reinvested into the game per investment round.

2D Artist: I thought with the last 100€ increase to the 2D artist, we'd have reached max velocity for feeding our 2D artist. However, I just saw the bill for commissiong the blowjob scenes (bandit, drug dealer 1+2). Since blowjobs involve quite a few positional head variations and players at the drug dealer's can have different costumes, the costs are pretty crazy and emptied the available budget in one go. Increasing 100€ here would help me deal with such expensive scenes.

tl;dr Assisstent writer higher quality lewd scenes written by assisstent writer, RPGM dev I can outsource some tech work like bugfixing to someone else and thus concentrate more on content creation, 2D Artist less risk to need to cut down on quality for expensive H-CGs.

I would personally estimate that investing more into the Assisstent Writer would have the best payoff and currently tend to that option. If you choose the "Leave it to aura-dev" option you will give me your vote.