Major Goal! Reward Poll (with news and updates)

Hello! At the end of last month we reached the $1000 reward goal. It's a MAJOR milestone and I want to thank all of you for your support.

I asked for your suggestions and I came up with these options. Here are my ideas:

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• Steampunk Pack

A couple tilesets and a sheet of new characters. Would cover a city-ish exterior and interiors that could function as a dungeon, with funky steampunk objects. At least 8 characters with a steampunk style, probably with the regular emotion animations for them too.

• Ruin Dungeons Tileset Pack 

A set of three themed dungeon tilesets based on ideas from previous goal polls that didn't win. Three areas each with a different environmental theme (Greek Ruins: light stone / Egyptian Pyramid: haunted desert / and Aztec Temple: overgrown jungle) to expand on the unique dungeon settings in your game. Each set would have a terrain-layer tileset and an object-layer tileset.

• Side Enemy Battle Expansion

A collection of static sprites to use as side-view monsters (in the style of the Demon Boss, but smaller of course). Would be based on the enemy character sprites from the Monsters pack.

• Faces Add-On

A collection of face graphics based on the existing Time Fantasy sprites. I'd do the characters from sets 1-5 from the base pack, and probably some others as well, like the military commanders or the hero-looking sprites from the Monsters pack. Probably not the NPCs. Would look something like these, but better!

• Animal Races Expansion 

A set of characters for a few different animal races. Beastmen, Lizardmen, Birdmen, etc. Each race would have some important-looking characters (class heroes, chieftains, etc) and some that could be used as NPCs for that race's village. Characters would have the regular emote animations. The pack would be comparable in size to Elves vs Dwarves and Lich Crusades. 

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(You can vote for more than one option. I'll leave the poll open for a week or so.)

Release Options

I'm still not entirely sure how to release this. Normally I like to release these special rewards for free -- since they're a patron reward, selling them feels scummy like "double-dipping"; plus the previous free tileset releases have been fantastic advertisements for the patron group! This one would be bigger than the previous tileset rewards, and take a larger time investment from me: maybe I could have it for sale for non-patrons and a free download for patrons; or maybe make it a patron-exclusive like the Lich Crusades set. Would be open to hearing your thoughts.

Either way, it would be a free download for patrons of course.

Side View Battlers Update

This morning I finished up the last SV animated battler from the military sheets in the base character pack. That means I've finished the SV battlers for the first set of characters.

I haven't exported and arranged them into proper sprite sheets yet (that's something I'll probably do over the next week)-- but the animations are done for over 60 side-view battle characters.

I do want to do more characters before releasing them as a full pack: there's a group of popular hero-type characters from the Monsters expansion that deserve battlers like this, and I don't think it would make sense to split them up separately.

I might, however, release this first bunch as a special pre-release download for patrons. Maybe. Let me know what you think of the idea.

Animation Pack Update

There's a lot of demand from you guys for effect animations. To really be worthwhile, we'd want a good set of these rather than a single animation for a patron request update. 

So I've decided that I will put together a pack of pixel animations effects. 

Impacts, magic spells, fireballs, lightning strikes, healing effects, etc. Compatible for RPGMaker battle animations and also for general use. These will be easily-accessible pixel animations and thus will be compatible with both Time Fantasy and the upcoming Omega Modern.

No ETA or anything yet-- I haven't even started on these! -- but it'll the next release in the queue. Will be working on these over the next month or two (or three)-- these will be my priority after the SV battlers.

This would be a stand-alone pack for sale, and it would be released for download for patrons at the $10 tier.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I respect your contributions with real value, and I don't treat this Patreon lightly. I don't think of your support as just donations-- I work hard to make sure you get something in return for your money.

I think that this project is so successful because of your fantastic suggestions that keep me motivated and releasing new graphics on a regular basis.

Anyways, this is three posts in a row without some new graphics for download. Feels wrong lol... I'll be back within the next couple of days with a patron request for you!

 Thanks!