Monster Girl Visual Novel | SweetCanvas

Working on a proper title, will have one soon

Basically this is the public announcement post for this project. Actual full time production of it will start in June but in anticipation of that I wanted to formally introduce people to the project in a bit more detail as well as briefly explain how me working on this will affect everything else about the patreon

PREMISE

Like I mentioned in the previous patreon only post, the premise is, as stated in the title, a fantasy highschool visual novel about monstergirls with the main bulk of the story revolving around an artclub in said highschool and the different paths the characters take with their creative endeavors and how you as the main character chose to approach the girls while learning about/helping them with their ambitions 

ROUTES

In the current outline of the game there are planned to be 3 main routes with girls in your art club, I also have 4 side routes planned, one of which is your teacher and club advisor, and the other three are just miscellaneous students, the side routes besides the club advisor have nothing really to do with the art club and will take on different, more supernatural elements and ideas, as well as all being distinct from one another in terms of clear conditions  

All the characters will be highschool seniors or older which means 18+, I say this because yes, I do have plans for there to be sex scenes in some of the routes and I plan to fully animate all of them myself. There may however be two versions, one with the sex scenes and one without, for the people who aren't interested in that sort of thing 

COLLABORATORS

Speaking of animation, I plan to have more animated scenes in the game than just the h scenes. I can't say specifically what they'll be because I obviously don't want to spoil the game for anyone but I have enlisted two good friends of mine and extremely competent animators @xenophoss and @garethwong3 (on twitter) to contribute to those scenes

Additionally I've also enlisted another friend of mine, @sphenop_s to help me with the designs and general aesthetic of the girls. Eventually I'll also need a musician (I have one lined up but I can't say for sure if they're in or not right now until we get to that point)

MONETARY GOALS

And that's where the new goals come in. I'm blessed that I have friends willing to lend their ideas and time to this project basically for free but I personally feel like they deserve to be properly compensated for their help, and obviously the animation and design work has to be paid for so that just can't happen if I don't have the funds. 

Thankfully I do have money saved since I've been saving at my own expense for if I ever wanted to work on something bigger or needed money to fall back on but there's only so much and ideally I would be able to feed myself and pay rent/bills etc. while also being able to give to the artists I'm working with comfortably, so if we can reach even the first goal that would go a long way towards that

TIER CHANGES

Well, really nothing will change for silver and below, the only major difference for those tiers is the type of content that they'll be seeing more of, I'll be posting a lot more designs and work on game assets as time goes on, as well as promotional artwork of the girls etc. 

The real changes are for gold and above, patrons in the gold tier or higher will be able to submit characters to potentially show up in the background or as basic no route side characters. They won't play any major or even notable role in the game but they will be there. Just because you're in the tier does not mean your character will automatically be added into the game so keep that in mind but if they are then of course you also get the assets created for that character out of it. 

In regards to the specific rewards for platinum, nothing really changes but in order to keep the workload manageable diamond tier patrons will have to chose between either commissioning me OR getting their monthly colored sketch which will now need to be less time consuming than before, meaning no complex ideas. I will of course continue to do these illustrations to the best of my ability, so there's not need to worry about the quality of work dropping.

Once we get further into production I may have to halt the commission aspects of these higher tiers so that I can focus on the game but that's probably a long way away and I'll mention it well before it fully happens so  for now it's nothing to worry about

I have no plans for additional tiers at the moment but we'll see as time goes on if that changes

There may also be things added to tiers as we get further in but for now it's not worth mentioning since that's a ways off

So yeah, that's all that's important for now, thank you all for your continued support and thank you to anyone who decides that this is something they'd like to support, I'll do my best to make it worth the investment!