Touching base ... 2!! (Patreon)

Hey guys! Next Short is coming along nicely (lil preview of the first scene)

Super quick rundown on the important stuff:
Billing will be paused for next month, this means if you're subbed right now you won't be charged for August, and new patrons won't be able to sign up during this time. This pause will be effective starting tomorrow.
The next Short might come in a little after the start of August, which is partially the reason for the pause, the other reason is that I'm going to be shifting the current incentive model a bit.
Shorts aren't going to be released monthly going forward. There was never a set date for them in the first place but it was always sort of an unspoken thing that you'd get one sometime during each month. That is going to change and in their place will be "mini animations".
Monthly polls for mini animations will be started this coming month on the 10th to shore up the "name in credits" incentive for Kurger Combo patrons. More details on that below.

To get a little more into detail:
I'm not gonna bore you with whining about how much work these Shorts are for poor little ol' me, because honestly I fuckin' love making them. But they do take time, and the more I raise my bar for their quality, the more time they demand.
I'm perfectly happy with this but I'm finding that between making a video game and also making a new Short each month, the time tables just don't add up and one will inevitably have to suffer a loss of monthly labor. I am a game developer first so between the two I have to let the shorts get less time each month. This however also means they can be higher quality, since I don't have to crank them out as fast.

For the rest of this year or until it's completed, releasing a full version of Visca's Earth Conquest is my very top priority. Shorts derailed this goal somewhat, which isn't even really a bad thing because I think they helped the growth of the patreon a lot, but I'm very serious about following through on my promise of finishing VEC and the more time a game spends in development purgatory the less likely it is to be finished. Because of that, patrons should expect a pretty long drought on Shorts until VEC is finished.

As I said above, in place of the monthly credits incentive, I will be doing a poll for mini animations on the 10th of each month. If you need an example on what to expect for these mini animations, look at "Raccoon Balloon". The goal is to essentially hop straight into the "good stuff" without worrying about a narrative set-up, while adding some satisfying sound design to it. The poll will present 3 different types of scenarios for patrons to vote on, and the comment section will be where future scenarios can be suggested.

Since this isn't what patrons signed up for exactly, I thought it only fair to pause the billing and let people get a taste for this new direction and decide if it's something they'd want to stay subbed for.


You guys fucking rock. Seriously. Thank you.