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[!] 2025 July Update Announcement

Hi everyone.

I'll start this update post with the most important thing first:

My Future

I am, as of writing this post, jobless. Friday, the 11th of july was my last day at work. Technically I'm still employed until the end of July, but with overtime and mandatory holidays, I don't need to come to work anymore. I also completed all necessary steps to not go back to that workplace (returning keys and so on). With this in mind, I'm jobless now and I have 2 options available, one more risky than the other.

Either way, the future is uncertain, but I would like to take the risk of doing Patreon/Fanbox as my main job. It's risky, but I think releasing short games to Patreon/Fanbox and maybe even selling them on itch.io or alternatives might be good enough. Of course, don't forget my 3D Stories. I'll 100% keep making them. They still are my priority, but I also want to start game development for real and finally put something out.

Games

I'll now talk a bit more about my plans for games. RPG Maker as an engine is decent enough for the first few shorter games. It's even good enough for the longer games I'm planning to make, but it's not the vanilla RPG Maker. To improve the quality of all games, I want to invest money into plugins. Later on, I would also like to invest money into custom art, sprites, tilesets, soundtrack and so on, but this would be limited to the longer games. Problem with this is, I'm jobless now.

This is to some extent a call to action. If you would like to see TSF themed RPGs with the "high quality" storytelling based on my ideas, consider supporting with a higher Tier. So far, the amount I need for plugins alone is roughly $170.

Commissions/Requests

Now I'll explain few things that I already mentioned and listed in discord few days ago.

Pixiv Fanbox/Patreon

(No Price changes!)

I would love to hear your opinion about the current names for memberships. Are they easy and clear enough to understand? I'm considering changing the names again to make it even easier to understand.

Free

Basic (5€/500 Yen)

Basic Plus (10€/1000 Yen)

Basic Extra (20€/2000 Yen)

Upcoming Series Projects

Paused/Dropped Series Projects

The upcoming series projects are NOT the only projects I'm working on. There are still oneshot projects coming among commissions, requests, games and (rare) doujins.

I'll also activate the Discount "BIRTHDAY25" for Patreon memberships starting in 3 hours from now (available until mid of august). The discount will be displayed publicly when viewing memberships.

I added the option to get commissions through Deviantart, but I might remove it if nobody uses it. I also added memberships to Deviantart and they do have the same benefits as Patreon/Fanbox (but limited to the Basic membership only).

Of course I'm open to discuss anything I mentioned here. If anything, I want to hear your opinions on this. You can either write a comment, send me a dm or use the google form to anonymously give feedback: https://forms.gle/Qhcz2u149dnZdwES7

[!] 2025 July Update Announcement

Comments

looking forward to whats in store for ya :) though i do recomend a balanced workflow that makes sense for you as a creator if you plan to make pixiv fanbox/patreon as your main job as you did mention it can be very risky venture to do and i also recommend doing the research needed and have a good plan set before going full in on patreon/fanbox and as a creator and one that makes sense for both you and your fans :/ still rooting for ya :)

Kb49

The problem with youtube specifically is the age rating for my content. Majority of my content is R18 and too spicy for youtube. I either can't upload it or I have to remove big parts of the projects to be able to upload them. And I agree. I really need to create a new splash screen and include it in my releases, not just on youtube, but on other platforms as well.

Shiyin

If you want to make a career of it you’ll want to ensure you are attracting new followers. A good way to do this imho (at least the way I came across you) is to regularly release stuff to YouTube so the algorithm can help you. From there you can direct people to your Patreon etc. I would suggest creating (and possibly regularly updating) a splash screen that shows various other works you have created that you can include at the end of videos you put there and directs people to you Patreon etc. this is a simple way to show watchers that you have a large catalogue of works and if they enjoyed what they watched they will then come over to support you and see what else you have to offer.

Jamster D


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