March in Review (Patreon)

Sup folks, figured I'd give a State of the Game for our first official month! Apologies if this gets a little wordy, but then, it is a Patreon for a text game, so...

First off, thanks again to everyone who's signed on as an early adopter, and particularly for staying on through the entire month. A common question I get is why Carnal Coup isn't using the 'charge upfront' pay model to deal with exploiters (of which there have been a few), and there's a simple reason for that; I don't currently have the option. It's described as a 'beta program' for 'some creators', and how projects are chosen, I can't say. I do intend to switch to it once it's available to me, in the meanwhile, I'll probably be making a change to polls to have them last until the end of the month once they go up. It might be a bit long-running in some cases, but it'll prevent me from having to go back and re-qualify results from anyone trying to game the system. 

Speaking of polls, I can confirm that the Vox are set for our third race, and you can also expect to see a bonus scene this month featuring Hellfire and a couple of lucky Commandos! This month there'll be a poll going up for the 4th race, so if you didn't get your first pick last month, you can always give it another shot.

Another thing I'd like to point out is that, for the observant of you, you may have noticed that we did not reach our "keep the lights on" funding goal. That's okay! While it would have been nice, I wasn't really expecting to hit the goal in the first month, and I will be self-funding project commissions for the first few months regardless. Come this summer, I may take another look at funding vs. expenses, but if we can keep growing at the current pace I think  the project will do fine. Of course, that's just for the basic content level - the sooner we get past that, the sooner I can accelerate things!

I'll wrap this up with a review of what's been done, and a forecast for the next month:

Accomplishments:

* 3,000+ plays on Itch.io

* CG and Image Gallery functionality added

* 4 new scenes, 2 new CGs, and numerous Harian citizen variant arts

* Did not make an April Fool's post where I mentioned I'd be wildly changing the focus of the game and then running off to an island with everyone's money

Forecast for April (estimates only, may change, not exhaustive):

* Bonus/Random Encounter Scene system, as well as first random encounter scene

* Credits pages for our first round of qualifying Patrons

* Vox scenes

* Start of Lencist designs and other scenery art

So finally, thanks again for your support, and please, tell your friends, and if you have any feedback on the game, drop me a line! I hope to make the game as fun to play as it is to develop!

-DaScoot