Artbook Vol. 19 Release Date, Patreon Updates, Focusing on my Community, Social Media Reconsideration, and Etc.

Hello everyone, it's been a while! Sorry for the long wait! I'm not sure where to start since there many things I want to discussed, but all I can say is I'm back! I assume there'll be some questions so I'll try to address them.

Since you are back, will you release artbook monthly again?
I've set the current billing to 'per creation' before I went on a long break(although technically, I was still making artworks for the artbook most of the time). Meaning, it won't be monthly by default, but I'll strive to release more sooner. If in case I manage to finish 2 artbooks in a month, I decided to at least have a minimum of 30 days interval between artbook releases (so it doesn't affect your budget for supporting me, considering that you became a patreon supporter when it was still a monthly billing charge).

As for the date of charge/billing for vol. 19, it'll be August 1st, then the artbook will be delivered on the 1st week of august.

The post that will be set as charged ( since it's per creation) will be posted tomorrow (July 31) that will also contain the teaser for the next artbook volume. While charge is per creation, it seems there is still a fixed schedule for charging the pledge, which is every1st day of a month.

Note: if you are one of the supporters from my separate patreon tip jar, that month will be paused during the release of the artbook so you won't get charged from both patreon (double charge). Also thank you again for the support during the time I wasn't able to release artbooks, it helps a lot!

Will there be any changes to your patreon content/tiers?
Not at this moment! Although I've been giving a lot of consideration on how to handle the emoji/emoticon reward. Currently, At the moment, it is access-only, meaning, if one is no longer a patreon supporter, one loses access to it and its right of usage . I've been thinking of bundling it with the artbook, which means that you'll get permanent access and usage for the emojis, but its disadvantage is you lose access if you missed a volume release, unless I made it available in my store like gumroad.

Adding more focus to patreon & discord. Social media reconsideration.
Twitter has changed a lot (which is now called x). While I will still be using it, I really want to pay more attention on my current community in the patreon (both this patreon, and the tip jar patreon) and discord. While this patreon regarding artbook will focus on artbook releases, I want to make some polls too, not only for the artworks of the artbook, for the emojis too. As for the tip jar patreon, I'm planning to post semi-random stuff there, like what I bought with your support, doodle and wips?, video game related stuff, or maybe something else.

I also have been considering Matsodon and Misskey. Matsodon for my game dev stuff, and Misskey for the artworks. I was thinking it was a good chance to give it a though considering its been my dilemma with my twitter account (if I should make another account, or just post on the same account with my game dev stuff). I'll wait and see first where it goes, and I'm hoping I'll be able to integrate it with discord since twitter is no longer viable due to them charging 3rd parties.

What happen to your Draknier Story / Game Dev project?
I'm still working on it and haven't given up on it, but I did downscale, not by making the story scope smaller, but by focusing on a single character, in a certain part of the story, and with a smaller area. I've been slowly building the foundation. I've also moved from Godot 3.5 to Godot 4.0 wherein 4.0 has lots of 3d features I've been looking forward to. I'm planning to port some of the scripts/scenes/gameobjects I made in 3.5, which I will use for the game.

Why have you stopped streaming recently?
I do enjoy streaming and engaging with the community, but at the moment, it is too draining for me. Honestly always felt anxious to make mistakes live, or showing how I end up with making the artwork worst *laughs*. Adding to that, the worry of power outage since it is quite common here. I now even have more respect for those who can stream consistently. Maybe I'll stream every now and then, especially when I have plenty of time.

I guess that'll be it for today. Thank you for your time and the support! For staying with me all this time, really big thank you! I'll keep trying my best!

If you have any more concern/question, feel free to let me know via dm, email, or comment.

Have a good day!
~Gofelem

Also, here's the discord link: Discord.gg/UDwwD3w