September (Amazons) / Autumn Season Roadmap (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

We have the results of our Autumn Season Poll.

- September: Amazons
- October: Night Elves
- November: Vampires

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POLL RESULTS :

First of all, we want to address some of the "conversations" that happened because of the poll results, and we want to assure everyone that none of these polls are restricting our artistic freedom by any means.

We (Elisa and Daniel) have decided that this is the way we want to steer Bite the Bullet and we hope you (especially those of you who keep supporting us month after month) to understand it.

This includes accepting the poll results, respecting those who voted any of the options you don't want and trusting us enough to believe we are able to release great and unique characters of these themes even if right now you don't like the winners.

As always, we have read ALL your comments and feedback and we're aware that a lot of you didn't vote for any of the winners themes and that you think there are already way too many of this characters out there ... but we want to assure you that we'll try our best to do them Bite the Bullet style and we firmely believe and hope (as it happened in previous seasons) that after seeing the models sculpted you will change your mind and may end up loving them.

This already happened with the Dragonborns and it proved to be a very good release and one that we're really proud of, so we hope this happens again in the following months.

And remember, polls don't decide WHAT we sculpt, polls decide WHEN we sculpt it, meaning, there will be time for us to do all the remaining options in the future and we hope all of you to be aboard with us to see them when the time comes.

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ROADMAP (Summer Loyalty / Release Order) :

As we announced in yesterday's post, our next character is gonna be the Summer Loyalty Reward, that's going to be Free those of you who supported us during July and August, it will be ready in the next few days.

We're gonna start this season with Amazons (September), then we'll do Night Elves (October) and we'll end with Vampires (November).

We also want to clarify our decision to do Vampires this season (3rd position in the poll), because we said the 2 most voted options would be guaranteed, but since we have decided that we're giving Bullet Town a small break next season and since this was the second time that Vampires almost made it to the winners ... we decided that this was their time to shine (just not in the Sunlight).

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NEXT POLL (Winter Season / Bullet Town Crew) :

We expect next poll to be really interesting and a very close one.

This time we had many options that did very well, a lot of them with over 100 votes that have huge chances of winning the next time.

Kobolds (We're aware a lot of you loved this one), Loxodons (Zunebo), Worgens, Pandarens (Sam), Gnolls (Ukor) and even the Locathah (Ganbon-san) had plenty of votes and we're really happy about it, because that was exactly our intention when we decided to release Bullet Town Crew, show you that even the uncommon races can be great characters.

We have decied to pause Bullet Town releases during next season until we can see what you thought of it, and we decide the right frequency for this releases. To help us figure this out we'll do a poll about this in the next few days.

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CONCEPTS (New Feature Test) :

We're gonna leave the Night Elves (clear winners of the poll) to the second month because we're going to test a new feature for our Patreon.

We're going to start releasing 2D Concepts of the characters before the month starts, so all of you can have an approximate idea of what the full release is going to look like before having to commit to a new month blindly (like is happening today with the Amazons).

Thanks to the new concepts we hope to reassure all of you at the end of each month so that you don't depend solely on your trust in us (which so far has been incredible) when deciding whether to keep your pledge at BTB for the next month.

In order to accomplish this, we're gonna require external help (outside of BTB), a 2D Concept Artist we're already in contact with.

But do not fear!

This doesn't mean that our BTB Style is gonna change at all, all character are gonna be designed by Elisa, all concepts approved by her and we'll be in permanent contact with the 2D Artist during the entire process.

And also, the final character doesn't have to be the exact image of the concept, our style will remaing the same.

This is a new feature we're going to test in our October (Night Elves) and November (Vampires) releases, and the continuity of this idea will depend entirely on your feedback.

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Elisa and Daniel,
Bite the Bullet Team.