End of June Mini-Update - Artworks and Merch (Patreon)

Hi everyone! 

We hope you're all doing well and staying safe. It's been a busy month of writing and editing, polishing up our two completed routes until we dive headfirst into our last - Leos. 

We're writing a little update to let you know that our lead artist Fuyuure (who has been affected heavily by COVID) won't have time to complete our next monthly artwork yet - it will likely be released next month. 

She's expressed a desire to finish up the last three CGs for the extended demo before doing the next artwork, which we wholeheartedly agree with. This pandemic has put us off track in terms of art (but not writing, programming or voice acting, luckily!), which has been the major hold up in the release of our next demo. We're hoping we can catch up, but we're also against crunch, so we're thankful for all of those people who support us and understand how difficult things are in many parts of the world right now. The main development team is incredibly lucky and thankful for being in a place where we're safe, can work from home, and life can go on (relatively) normal, but for many of our extended team, this isn't the case.

With that being said, all other updates to Patreon will remain the same - we just wanted to give you all a heads up about why the artwork will be delayed.

Next, I wanted to go over a new feature that Patreon is offering - merch. This is an optional opt-in style program that would cost us 3% of our monthly income, as well as the cost of producing the items.

The way it works: you stay on a tier that includes merch for three months, Patreon produces said merch and sends it to you, all without us having to do anything.

They have the following options: Stickers, mugs, totes, posters, tshirts and hoodies.

Have a look here. 

It all includes shipping, so it would be no extra cost to you. Please let us know below if this is something you would be interested in. If there's enough interest, we will look at signing up, and have a poll for which illustrations to have on what.

Again, thank you all for your support. We would not be able to do this without you.

- The TDS Team