The First Draft is Live

Hey everyone!

Just to let you know, the public demo has now been released. You've all had access to it for at least a little while now, but with this, I take the actual step forward of having the whole game out there in the vast sea of the internet.

Or at least, the whole first draft. 

As I've probably said enough times to be annoying, at this point, there's plenty more change to come before the game is submitted for publication, and I hope you'll stick around to see that happen. Your support is the reason I can keep working on projects like FoA, and I'm excited for what's next. 

I'd like to address what's upcoming in the editing phase a bit so you can decide whether you're inclined to hang around or take a break from the Patreon (or whatever the case may be).

First off, the RO-POV bonus contents will be continuing as usual. I'm not going to run out of things to do for those for a while, so they're here to stay for now. 

Secondly, I will be replacing the other bonus contents, what has until now been the questionnaires, with previews and sneak peeks into the editing process, including some systems I'm redesigning and structural changes I'll be making as I try to tear this draft apart and put it back together better than before. 

Thirdly, the BIPs will continue. Depending on how long it takes me to implement certain new systems, they may be messy, partial, or only halfway through important changes, but then... sometimes my chapters were like that! I can promise that, every month from December until editing is finished, I will be putting out a BIP with changes in it. I'm not sure exactly how that will look, or what state some of them will be in, but I'm committed to it. 

So, in large part, Patreon stuff will be... kind of the same, honestly, and hopefully once I'm ready to move into the next game, I can just pick back up the normal format pretty easily. If it's relevant, I currently estimate the editing process will take about three months. That's just a guess! It could be a bit less, it could be more. I've never done this part of things before, and certainly not this extensively, so this is very much going to be a process of discovery for me. 

Anyway, whether you'll be staying or heading out, please know that I've been so, so grateful for your support, and that it means the world to me. I hope that when the completed game finally comes out, it will feel like that support was worth it. 

Cheers,
Jess