Kuma Dev Blog #21 - Major change of Grayscale and Introducing Apollo Tier (Patreon)

I hope you all liked Chapter 14. For me, the Claudia scene is my favorite scene so far. 

I want to take this time and make an announcement regarding our monthly grayscale art. 

As you know we have been operating on a loss for years starting October 2018, and the current situation is, our budget just wouldn't hold for much longer, yet we are still steps away from our initial goal, which is 2500$ by August.

So in order to help this studio survive, I've decided to temporarily pause on high-tier's voting rights on our monthly grayscale art, and switch it to commission-based. 

How would this impact you?

1. If you are pledging less than 20$, there will be no impact on your behave.

2. If you are pledging 20 or more, you will temporarily lose your voting rights on Grayscale arts starting August. 

3. You'll still get access to the grayscale arts once it's down.

Opening Commissions:

1. We will introduce a new tier - Apollo. 

2. Apollo tier would be priced at 400$/month and only one slot would be available. 

3. You get to commission us your desired contents (That is legal and follows through Patreon's TOS and approved by Kuma). The number of major characters involved will be limited to two, and no complex backgrounds. 

4. And you'll get all the perks that you get from the consul tier. 

5. This would be a temporary tier, once we reached 2900$/month, I will remove this tier and restore previous standards of our grayscale's voting rights. 

Regarding Price:

1. A typical grayscale cost our artist around 30 hours to make. I pay our artist WA state's min of 15$/hour. In other words, each grayscale would cost us 450$.

2. But, our artist is nice enough to agree on doing this for free for us during their weekends, so I can cut the price of our commission to 400$. 

But don't worry too much, if we got pretty close to 2500 by the end of August, I'll ask for another loan from family. 

This is basically it for this blog, Chapter 15 will be out in roughly 20 days. 

Take care.

Team Kuma