One year later

It's exactly one year and one day after start of our journey here on Patreon.

On the 3rd of April 2017 I put Babysitter up on Patreon for the first time. It was a short demo basically, about 10 minutes long, and I had a grand total of two patrons. By the end of the month, I had over one-hundred, I thought I was doing pretty well. I had no idea.

A year ago, Babysitter was a hobby that I enjoyed. Today it is my full-time job. A year ago, I made enough off the game to cover the costs of production, if that. Today, I have enough to live on. A year ago, I worked on the game by myself. Today I have a small dedicated team working with me to make the Babysitter the best it can be. 

It’s been a bumpy year to be sure. Sometimes I made some rather… controversial design decisions. Sometimes real life intervened. Sometimes computers burst into flame. No matter what happened my focus has always been delivering a game that you all, and I can both be proud of.

And every one of you patrons should be proud too. I say this often, but we can’t do this without you. All of you are part of what makes Babysitter what it is. So when I once again say thank you, know that I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

While I am saying thanks, and before this gets too long I want to thank some people who have helped over the course of development. To my team members, both current and former, thank you for everything. I also want to give shout outs to the following people: 

· RoscharBear for being first Patreon and also for his help with storywriting

· Malachi, LoneWolf and Rubberneck for their proofreading and ideas  

· Booom313 for his coding assistance and saving our butts 

· DarthSeduction for helping my writer grapple with some difficult scenes (check out his game, Game Legends.), 

· Philly Games for getting us past a particularly nasty bit of code (check out his game, Depraved Awakening.), 

· SinnDallas for helping bug test, 

· The scores of you who send us bug reports, feedback, point out typos, and ideas for creative ways to murder Mr. Silver and Robert.

So where do we go from here? Well, Babysitter still has a great bit of life left in her, so don’t expect her to go away anytime soon. We are hashing out ideas for what comes next, and when they are ready to be shown you will be the first to see them. We’ll be opening a new Discord server soon, and now that we have our Android port out, our next one will be HTML5. And of course, we’re getting ever closer to our $10,000 goal. An additional artist on the team will let us give you even bigger updates each month.  

Soon we’ll also be posting 0.1.1b as well as an updated walkthrough. There are a lot of fixed bugs and changes in 0.1.1b so stay tuned for the changelog.

Thank you all once again for your generous support!

Here’s to another great year!

T4bbo and team