New Year, New Roo (Eclectic Boogaloo) (Patreon)

TL;DR I'm making changes to how I'm doing things on Patreon. Below is the list of changes.

So, what's new and changed?

First off, Monthly Polls will not directly use Influencer themes. This is something I've worked out with Influencers and there is a replacement perk to cover. I'm still doing monthly polls, and I'm still collecting themes from Influencers (more often, actually). However, because Influencers have so many wild ideas, I was starting to reach a point where I was rushing to catch up finding or making images that fit all the themes. This is a good problem. I love idea pitches!

So... I'm going to collect more pitches and run them in an "Ideas From a Hat" format. Each month, expect to see more sketches with additional credits for the idea. Every few months, I'll take those Influencer sketches and set up a poll specifically oriented around their idea sketches. It'll be wild. The ideas I've already gotten are really interesting. I'm hyped!

Monthly polls will still be monthly. Expect them to vary wildly on WHAT the poll is about, but there's definitely something for each month.

I'm restarting into the commission queue. I have a long list of people who have been waiting a really long time, and I'm going to be working diligently to satisfy. This should no longer get in the way of Patreon content, because...

Starting this year, I'm alternating between game development and poll art each month. This January will be an art poll, February will be a game feature for Cursed Game, March will be another art poll, and so on... until Cursed Game is done or until we switch things up again. I expect to keep people in the loop on Discord. Expect more cool things and more private and public updates!

I'm using the Discord group a lot more frequently and it's the best place for you to keep up to date. If you haven't joined the Patreon Discord server and you've only been getting updates on here, please consider joining. You're missing out on the best parts of your patronage.

Patreon Tier text has changed. None of the perks have been altered. I've only updated the text to more accurately match how it's evolved so far.

Patreon Tier Goals are going to move back to community number goals. Originally I had monetary goals specifically around signing up for certain subscriptions (Unity3D Pro, Picarto, and Adobe Creative Cloud). Now, I think I'm just going to start putting funds directly into game development tools in the short-term and avoid subscriptions. Every little bit still helps a lot! I'm just realizing that it's going to be a while before I can afford the bigger crazy things.

And that's it!

Again, thanks for reading all of that. The next art poll is coming up soon! I just need to finish edits and uploads and stuff!