Important announcement - Final project assessment (Patreon)

Hello everyone, this is Blakenfen.

We're very close to v1.0 now. After two more chapters we'll be finished with Echoes from Valeth. We still plan to release patches to include edits, fix any errors, insert more content, and improve the overall experience. I’ll take this opportunity to give you some info about the current and future state of our work as a team.

Echoes from Valeth has taken roughly 15 months to complete with our current team, our available time, and our resources. We’re very proud of what we have achieved overall. We’ve been consistent with our production goals, adamant even, in bringing to you a new update each month. We love the story we’ve created, our characters: the good ones, the baddies, those who are gone and those who will continue. They’ve all played a role in the story and will always have a spot in our hearts.

We want to thank our patrons for their valuable support, especially those who have been with us all along the way and the ones who have contributed more to the project. It made a big difference as we kept pushing ourselves to get our visual novel out there.

The future:

Although we wish things could be different, I have to be honest about the reality of producing work like this. As a team we remained as optimistic as we could be while continuing to work very hard on EfV, but ultimately, the project did not achieve enough financial support for us to be able to do this long-term. In addition, as it takes a tremendous amount of time and energy to create visual novels, is not something we can continue to do as a hobby at the cost of paying bills and resting.

Therefore, we will be unpublishing our Patreon page once v1.0 is released to the public on itch.io this December, as we won’t have any more exclusive content to deliver and won’t be working on any new projects in the near future.

We wish things could be different in a way that enabled us to tell you more stories, but perhaps we will have another opportunity in the future.

Q/A:

Q: Will the Aucyon Project Patreon page work the same way until it is unpublished?

A: Yes, it will be the same as always.

Q: Is the Discord server going to disappear?

A: No. In fact, we encourage everyone on the server to keep building up our community and to receive news and additional content. The more support and interest we can generate in future work, the greater the likelihood we will be in a future position to fund it.

Q: What about your social media, like Twitter?

A: We won’t delete our social media either as this is another means of generating interest and support.

Q: What is going to happen with your next planned project, Silver Heaven?

A: Silver Heaven is a huge project compared to Echoes from Valeth. Still, we said we would develop the first volume of the VN (6 chapters). We want to do this, and we plan to, but we don’t know how long it will take before we have the opportunity. We need a break after working on EfV.

Q: Will the Patreon page come back in the future?

A: We’re optimistic that one day EfV might help generate enough of an interest in our team’s work to help fund future projects, under which circumstances we would be able to seek support on Patreon once more.

Q: Can I help the project in any way?

A: Spread the word. Help Echoes from Valeth reach more places: tell a friend, draw some fan-art, share our publications, rate EfV at itch.io, leave a comment and follow us at itch.io and on our social media, talk with other EfV community members at discord, etc.

Thank you for your support so far, and we hope you enjoy the conclusion to EfV.