2024 and the future.

Last week I covered a couple of the key points of 2023. Part of that was looking back at the goals I had set at the start. If you missed that post you can view it here: LINK

In this weeks update I will go through some of the goals I have set myself for 2024.  Some of these may be ambitious, and I do not expect to hit them all, but these are things that I will aim to achieve by the end of the year.

My goals for 2023:

• Complete chapter four, releasing update 0.4.8
• Increase patreon membership to 500, with 60 paid subscribers.
• YouTube subscribers reaches 400
• A minimum of six video releases
• Create more content bundles (images / requests) for subscribers
• Complete remaster of the chapter one scenes (based on user feedback)

The next Update:

I know it feels like it's overdue, but it's comming. I'll be posting a full progress update next week - but as of last night the final animation for the Louise scene has been rendered. I can now start work on the next scene in the list.

Patreon & YouTube:

Currently sitting at 462 members, 50 of which are paid.  Did gain a little boost at the end of the year which is always nice. So a big welcome to new supporters. I'm always surprised with the increasing support I get via YouTube, I'm not a "YouTuber" by any stretch of the imagination, I still stumble over my words and constantly think to myself "is this entertaining" I have to rely on the idea that I watch others doing this, so there must be some market for it.

I am attempting to have a video schedule or let's say a less erratic one. I have ideas, but do not have the time. I think everyone can relate to that.

I'm also considering having patreon only videos that are just me making scenes specific to Dreams of Reality. Unfortunately I need to keep them SFW and it could run the risk of spoiling future content, but perhaps some would be interested in watching that? These videos would be un-edited (in as much as I won't really talk about what I'm doing - if at all).

I may test the waters with this, I could always make the videos public anyway, but add some form of disclaimer at the start.

Content Bundles:

This is something new for this year. I already release promo images on a semi-regular basis here on patreon, some of these are exclusive whilst others are posted elsewhere. I still plan to do this, however I want to give more value to higher tiers. The two images on this post are the start of an image series that will be made available to supporters. The series is titled "Back to School" and features Cindy. There are 27 images in total, some will be made available for free, whilst others will be tied to a specific support tier.

As you can imagine, as the series of images progresses Cindy becomes a lot more ...daring.

I will be releasing these bundles in the comming weeks so check your support tier to gain access to them.

Chapter One - A Remaster:

I've spoken about this several times. This will be on-going, But I would like to have it finished either ready for the next update (0.5.0) or be a release before then. I may put this to a vote, either I spend a month or two getting the first chapter up to standard with the rest of the game, or put this on the back burner and focus on the first update for chapter five.

Well, that just about covers it for this post. Next week will be a public update on the progress. Until then;

Stay safe all,

Cenc