New Patrons; Rowss the Rowsdower, Ryii the Rickety, Christopher the Camper, Corey the Courageous, Ian the Illuminator, Alex the Avante-Garde, Mike the Mighty + Stream + News

Hey all, 

I just wanted to take the time to thank the game's new patrons and to welcome them to our Apoca-Ville! Please say hello to Rowss, Ryii, Christopher, Corey, Ian, Alex and Mike! First off, let me say that I really appreciate you giving this little indie game your attention. It means not only a lot to me but my family as well. It's always nice to have a fresh pair of eyes on your project too as new attention can bring forth ideas that help better immersion, or to help create bug fixes etc. Trust me your attention is invaluable. I also wanted to remind all of you that you are welcome to join us on Discord via this link (which will never expire), https://discord.gg/g5MYnDA and to share your questions, ideas, concerns, critiques or compliments if that be the case! I will do my absolute best to give you each individual attention as well starting with a personalized thank you email. I'm about half-way done typing all of those up but I still have a couple of you to go so please be patient ^_^ ! Anyway! Welcome to our little community, I hope each of you finds a great niche to help you stay involved and I hope you all get to know me. If there's anything you need that I can help with, let me know :D! 

Also, here is the Stream from Sunday night. Not much really goes on in it though. I had to cut it short because I was exhausted but the forty-five minutes I did work I was fixing a small feature and then I was on a semi-bug hunt that took the rest of the video but even that wasn't enough time to figure it out. I'm STILL trying to work on it! >.< ! I hope you all enjoy it nonetheless. 

In other news, the struggle was real trying to NOT work on the game. Usually I take 2-3 days off after every release to get my head back on straight, to step back away from the game to get some perspective etc but honestly for the past couple of months and releases I haven't been doing that. I've taken like....half a day off and then I'm all over it again. Well, not this time! This time I actually took 3 days off (kinda-sorta). I was messaging people, talking with people on Discord, playing games to help relax and it felt....horrible. I was doing everything I could to distract myself from working on the game but at times I still had it opened and was peaking around here and there. It's addicting! 

I've also been looking for artists for the game since I really don't have time to do the art myself anymore. I'll still be doing the maps and tiny things like the title screens etc but I don't have the time to do full-scale drawings and even if I did that takes away from the game's actual development by several days and roughly 6-7 hours per character, especially if I ink and color. So I've ultimately decided to let an actual professional artist handle the job. I just have to find one. I already have three in mind that I've been toying around with. Here they are....let me know what you guys think of them. 

3D Art: http://www.zagreusent.com/portfolio/ 

2D Art: https://opengameart.org/forumtopic/professional-freelance-animemanga-concept-artist-for-hire-high-quality 

2D Art: https://layerx3.deviantart.com/gallery/ 

I'm leaning toward the 3D guy cause his attitude and prices were amazing and I liked the 2D artist LayerX3 (although I haven't gotten a reply from him yet). Obviously there are many amazing artists out there but it also something to be weary of as well. You may have heard about the Mating Season debacle where the artist retained rights over their work and left etc --- I won't pretend to know the actual details but things like that are something I need to protect the game from. This is essentially my baby and I don't want it's image drowned in drama and all that crap. I'm a really simple person and I like to keep things simple. The artist has to reflect that kind of attitude as I'll need to work with them over many years and they need to be kind enough and have a good enough demeanor that we butt heads about things. Essentially, I'm looking for the Studio Cafofo-like artist (Studio Cafofo is the studio handling the game's musical pieces) that I get along with REALLY well. 

So that's basically what I've been up to. I just wanted to let you guys know my progress and thoughts about that stuff and I'd love to hear what you all think too.

Today, I was basically fixing little things here and there in the game. For example: 

 - Fixed when searching the closet in the guest bedroom and coming across this situation: “search Dress Shoes” the dialogue mentions, “After diligently searching through the pairs of shoes row by row, you unfortunately don't come across any that'll actually fit you. What a disappointing search and a gigantic waste of time. What really makes you mad is the fact that all of them seem to be made for Halflings or something. It's a complete letdown.” --- which happened even when you are a Halfling! So this has been modified. If you’re a halfling/goblin or you’re super short and you search the shoes now you’ll randomly find a pair of shoes ^_^ Thanks for the catch Elseone! PS – I also tweaked some of the scripts language/description as well.

- Added an extra Breast Size increase to the Maternal Pregnancy Script at 4-months since it skips over two of them in the 2-month mark. Thanks for the catch Anonymous! You have a 50% chance for it to Proc! 

-Fixed Triplets during Pregnancy not accurately adding to how many children you’ve given birth to (like you were missing one child). Thanks again for the catch Elseone! Apparently, I just missed a place where I was supposed to add the line of code for a child integer! Ewps.

- Fixed that on Regular Difficulty the Player was still losing -3 Maximum Health once their normal Health was depleted. They should have been losing only -2. This should make progressing in the world a tad easier 😊  

Anyway! That's it for the time being! Back to work tomorrrow, right now I'm going to finish sending out some of the emails and then I'm going to crash for the night. Hope you all sleep well!

Anonynn.