Development Update #40 - Nex alphas and Tier Price Raising.

Hello, my lovely patrons, I'm here today to speak a little about the next alphas updates.

As everyone knows, December was a slow month for me, given some very special circumstances I worked a little less on the game, also because I think I deserve a break at least on the Christmas week and New Year too.

But now, January is literally at our doorstep (I'm writing this text on 31 of December), and with it, the normal flow of work I always have will return. I will be working between five to eight hours every day trying to create a compelling and believable story as much as possible, while I wait for Wagner Mutt to finish the art-set for the game.

But Writing is not the only thing I'm doing, I'm constantly finding bugs, issues, fixing text whenever someone sends me a text correction, I work on the new space on the gallery where you guys will be able to check the Sketches or unreleased or discarded concepts for cutscenes of the game and so on...

But the truth is, the game is heavily dependent on art, waiting for the assets can take a long time, a time that I don't think you patrons deserve. I can't draw myself, and frankly, I think Wagner's artwork for this game is stunning and amazing, but since this is not the only project he works with I can't expect (none of us can actually) that he will work solely on this, that being said, whenever a new background or artwork is released it just fits so well in the game.

However, to wait for the assets to be finished, I don't think it's good for the release of the alphas. I usually only add a new day to the alphas if I have enough content, not only text but images to put on the game. We can't work on scenes for the game while the backgrounds are not done, for example. So instead I've been thinking that maybe, I should work harder on the story part of the game, and release it without the artwork. From day 4 onward I want to have at least some cutscenes happening, which is nothing I can add right now, not even sketches, like I said, the discarded ones don't fit the story.

So, here's where the Tier 3+ patrons will get one of the new pools for the game: In January I'll be asking you guys what do you think I should focus on for the next alphas: Should I release new alphas with the next days, eventually with the lewd scenes without the scene or proper music for it? Should I focus on the PLOT related story bits for Karnal and Wagner for days one through three? Or should I just continue working on the text, making it look better, and eventually release an alpha when there's more completed artwork?

Remember that, at this point, I only have the beginning of day 4 of Wagner wrote on paper, because again: I was working to make sure the Demo release would work for everyone.

The Pool will be available on the first week of January, so if you wanna vote, don't forget to become at least a tier 3 patron or more!

Oh and about the price rising for the Patreon, I already have the new prices there, every tier will be risen by 2 bucks BUT, I'm waiting for Patreon to send us creators a new e-mail, it seems they will change again, how they charge you guys when you are supporting us (because grabbing 30% of any money you send me is not enough for them),  and that could mean that becoming a patron for you can be a little more... Difficult, even a small extra charge is enough to fuck up some people, so instead or rising the prices, I'll wait Makes no sense for me to raise them, just to have you all unable to help me later because, well, money. I can't raise the price here (even if the project would be incredibly benefited by it) if Patreon wants to do the same for themselves to get more money.

So, that's it for today's Development Update!!!

I hope you all have a nice time and thank you so much for supporting the project. I hope you can still help me next month too!