General funding talk, future plans etc.

Hey everyone,

Hope you're all doing well?

I wanted to again take a bit of time to keep you updated on things behind the scenes, potential future plans and all that. Since well, of course that is all part of the development.

As is pretty typical, we had taken a bit of a funding bump during the early months of the year. The post-christmas period tends to be one where people often have to scale back a bit after the big holiday months, and of course as a Patreon-funded game we're not shielded from that. But as of right now we've recovered from that dip and are at a (relatively*) healthy status again. Thank you to both old and new faces for that. :)

*Relatively because, well. Don't know if you've noticed but the guy in the white house is not exactly the smartest bulb. So we, too, are/will be feeling the effects in that the $ value has taken a bit a tumble and is at the weakest it's been since Covid compared to the €. Not exactly great, but not terrible either, we'll see how it develops...

But, as long as it stays in a reasonable range we'll be fine.

With us being at a sustainable level that also means that we can start thinking about what we could do in case more people decide to support us. In terms of writing I think we are covered. I'm noticing that managing 3 people + myself is about as much as I can handle in terms of story planning, and implementing things in time for the updates.

Instead, I think what could be cool is a bit of budget for a broader range of small bits and pieces. Stuff I'm not particularly good at, such as graphic design.
For example, one thing I wanted to try is to have little symbols for the different characters that can be displayed in the center of the compass UI element. Just as an additional little piece to determine at a glance who is speaking at any point in time.
I'm terrible at design like that, so it'd absolutely need to be someone else to do that properly.

But it could be other stuff as well, perhaps custom pieces of music we could commission, smaller art pieces either for the game, or perhaps as merch. Maybe short-stories about the characters that are seperate from the game itself.
Small additions.

Now of course that is a niche that could scale just about infinitely, depending on which artists get commissioned and all that, but as a baseline I think we can set the goal of starting this up when we reach 2200$/m.
At the time of writing we're just past 1950$ with Patreon and Substar taken together. 200-250$ a month for smaller bits and pieces I think would be pretty neat to have.

So yeh! I hope that'd be something you could look forward to if we ever should reach it. Honestly, at this point I'd be surprised if we did. We already are in a range of funding that very few furry VNs ever have access too, and I'm not quite sure how. Since we're not exactly a "big player" in the VN space. But I thought that about the the current level we are at as well, and he were are. And hell, I'm certainly not complaining about us being able to keep doing this, to know that we have this degree of confidence behind the team and to try and make sure you get a game you'll enjoy! :D

Thank you for your time, thank you for your support of course, and I hope you have a great weekend!