Development Update #111 (Patreon)

After the Patreon suspension having leeched most of my mojo, things appear to be back on track again. Development of Episode 20 is coming along, most of the sex scenes have been rendered, more than half of the animations are also done and I'm now mainly posing and rendering action scenes. I'm a little behind on writing, so I'm reserving more time for that in the coming weeks.

Not all good news, I'm afraid. In an earlier update I mentioned wanting to set up my own subscription platform in order to be less dependent on platforms like Patreon. The platform is mostly finished, apart from processing payments. I had a promising intake with a major high-risk credit card processor and also (mutually) signed multiple forms to begin the compliance and integration procedure. Instead of moving things along after those completing those initial forms, the payment processor now isn't responding to any of my emails. As they're a rather big player when it comes to high-risk processing, I'm dreading inquiring at other outfits a little... So not much progress on platform front, I'm afraid.

The other bit of negative news concerns the game that Patreon forced me to remove, so I guess discussing it here is a little moot now. The audio and music update of that game was supposed to be finished by now. The composer would also do the programming side of implementing the audio. Due to unforeseen circumstances, they won't be able to complete this portion of the work, which leaves me in a bit of a pickle. Implementing the audio is quite a lot of work and I don't have time to work on this extensively. The composer has offered to find a third-party programmer to do the remaining work, so I'm hoping that will turn out to be the solution.

The overall feeling isn't very positive at the moment, so I'm just going to focus on TFTUV for the time being.