I'm still lost, I'll be honest, but I am trying to find a new wave of enthusiasm, starting by reinventing the Patreon tiers.
As you know, our corporate overlords in all their wisdom, decided that we are not allowed to offer our fans "additional services" on external sites, namely codes and namely Patreon. This really, really killed our ability to offer a payment alternative or a fl...
2019-09-09 21:44:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Evening all, just a quick heads up that I'm officially in Tool Building Mode and decided to go All Out and create a proper interface and mechanism for managing Events, Base Items and alike so they can be managed by the entire team in theory, but in practicality so that I dont have to go through the mental gymnastics of how we set up items etc every time we launch an event!
The Event animation tool worked so well I decided to rework the Asset Bundle building tools so I can a) ju...
2019-06-25 21:35:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Im not a fan of manual labour, I never have been. I remember fondly being around 7 or 8 and "helping" my grandfather on a building site and by the end of the day telling him that I didnt ever want to be a builder and that "manual labour sucks" and it wasnt for me. This is why I code.
Taps has a lot of animations to create for each event. A piece of armour for example has 24 individual animation types, each of which has 20 to 30 frames that Vadim hand crafts and James woul...
2019-06-19 23:46:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, I'm back in business, baby!
The good news is Im officially back! Again, huge apologies for being AWOL for the last month or so. I really didnt expect James leaving to hit me mentally so hard but alas it did, and I needed something to jumpstart my juices to get me going again.
This weekend was it. I spent Saturday messing around with the Oculus Rift SDK and trying to put together a few little scenes, import some 3d ladies and generally just to really see what ...
2019-06-17 22:48:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not going to lie, since James left I've been pretty much unable to face the world of Eradine. I skipped the Isle of Man TT event, which will be coming out soon, but should have been ready 2 weeks ago for the washout that was this years bike festival. In fact, James PC which has the Android code on and all the bits to build the Android asset bundles has been unplugged since I moved his PC next to my own... the day after he left.
So what does all this mean for the future of CryptidTec...
2019-06-12 20:38:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear All,
Rather than apologising for the lack of updates from myself on all fronts, I wanted to share some disappointing but none-the-less very proud moments for me as a business owner and friend that Friday will be James last day with CryptidTech.
Unfortunately for us, James has been offered a job with one of the worlds largest eGaming companies and compared to the current outlook for us, its 100% an opportunity he couldn't say no to.
Alas, we have now bee...
2019-05-08 19:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Just putting the finishing touches to the first animated scene making its way into the Valentines Event featuring Frea and Cosmo getting intimate at last! Its a great scene and one you're definitely not going to want to miss!
Hoping to get it live tomorrow evening, or on Thursday if delayed!
2019-02-12 18:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostMomentum for the studios plan for 2019 is growing as we work towards ensuring the event calendar is full for the year, and once we have the base content done we need to come up with a plan so we're opening the floor to you guys and girls to have some say in what that might look like.
Here are a few of the things people have asked for over the last 12 months that we feel are worthy of working on next, so what do you think would not only be the most fun, but offer a new lease of life into...
2019-01-21 21:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Dearest Patreons,
You might be wondering why there have not been any new Patreon exclusives of late, and whilst my own ineptitude was one reason, the underlying reason was not quite so rosey...
We received a stern email with the following sentiment and points made:
” We are not too keen on linking people to any sites besides social media off of The Platform, however we do not strictly enforce it.
· If there is a Patre... 2019-01-15 21:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear all,
The team has been working hard to bring everyone a full month Advent Calendar for Taps of Eradine, with exclusive content throughout the festive period.
My own time on the project has been rather sparse in November. Ive not been AWOL per say, but I have been arranging a lot of CryptidTech "businessy things" that have been taking up my time in the evenings and weekends on top of helping out where I can with the Xmas event. Ill do a business update tomorrow as there is a lo...
2018-12-01 13:48:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Just wanted to say Happy Halloween and to let everyone know we havent forgotten about Novembers Patreon exclusives, we've just been crazy busy with the event that its still on the todo pile.
There will of course be a new Exclusive Outfit set for November once the Halloween event has finished (looking like Saturday or Monday) and we will try and get the announcement out before the end of the week.
Likewise, apologies for Patreons messaging about USP credits and Shards keys, please email s...
2018-10-31 18:48:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a special thank you for all your support, here is a super awesome code for just visiting or following the Patron page. Get yourself 10 free dark shards (enough to unlock the first artwork..) with the code:
Enjoy and Happy Halloween!
2018-10-27 15:30:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear All!
Just a quick update to let you know you can now get the official NSFW version of Taps of Eradine via Nutaku directly and not have to beg for the APK from us! We are busy keeping plates spinning tonight and working late, already finding a couple of database issues and getting them fixed for performance increases so expect a few bumps.
Also, a quick preview of one of the scary minions for the Halloween update too! Between the Android launch, the update and the dungeons, things ar...
2018-10-17 20:42:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick update to let everyone know we're still alive and this months October codes have just been released!
This month is Halloween, and with it comes an exclusive Nutaku event running from the 25th to the 31st October. Whilst we are pushing hard towards the Android release (next Tuesday), then the dungeon content, we have been working hard to get ready for it with a very special new mini event that will include a very sexy but very scary set of twins!
The theme will be Video Game ...
2018-10-10 21:33:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick update, Octobers rewards will be released tomorrow - just a short delay as James is away this weekend and the outfit has a small glitch on the animation for the sword and a code tweak that needs to go in both builds.
2018-10-07 21:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Another crazy month for the studio and October will have some great content for sure!
As a brief overview of next months plans:
Not a very helpful message I know, but apologies to the 2 players that sent us an email regarding the error. Ive resolved the issue (don't hotfix in live, Del...) and you should be good to go.
Just to make sure, you can try the code :
For some more goodies too... :D
2018-09-16 10:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostJust in case you're not on the Discord channel, and if not why not, but the latest Nutaku "soft launch" APK update is thus:
http://connect.tapsoferadine.com/TapsOfEradine_35.apk
Still not officially signed off by Nutaku yet but James is working through the QA issues!
2018-09-11 19:34:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear All Patreons,
Just wanted to personally reach out and let y'all know I havent forgotten about anyone specifically and if you are missing them, emailing James will get you up to date ASAP for August but it will be automatic too going forward.
Septembers rollout will be this weekend once we finish the automated system for doing so as hand rolling isnt going to work going forward so we need to be able to verify pledges due to failures etc, then roll out codes automatically etc.
T...
2018-09-06 21:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Taps relaunch is going pretty well after its bumpy start; database is chugging along finding new missing indexes every day, we're ironing out the issues and we're creeping up the Nutaku rankings so all is good!
In light of this, here is the September Exclusive Patreon content:
Bronze Tier supporters will get the Demons Tongue, an awesome new sword with a tongue for a blade! It will provide a DPC bonus of 125x and...
2018-08-28 20:28:40 +0000 UTC View Post
If you've been on the Discord or trying to play, youll have enjoyed the last 24 hours! :D
But a quick update before I hit the sack to say Ill be rolling Pimp outfits tomorrow so be sure to get me your Nutaku Id number if youre a Patreon and haven't done so already!
Thanks!
2018-08-26 22:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick one to say we havent forgotten about Patreon rewards, the build had to go off, took 3 days to go live and its 1:23am and Im still here beavering away!
https://trello.com/b/8LCTNaMB/taps-of-eradine-version-2-bugs-and-stuff
You can see known issues here and of course play on Nutaku, and grab the Nutaku APK here:
Car crash in formatting but in case you're not on Discord (and at this point, why not?!) here has been some of the progress from the alleged launch that was happening today and getting closer to Saturday as I type... :D
delmorphaToday at 8:37 AM
@here Just taking a little longer to get into maintenance due to the 3am finish but game is going down at 9am GMT. https://youtu.be/1k8craCGpgs2018-08-24 20:46:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Can't actually believe Im finally at finishing touches like this, it's been so damn long but in any case, as a Patreon I would very much like you to find your way into our credits!
If you want your name in here, please PM me, reply in the comments or email support@cryptidtech.com
Thanks!
2018-08-22 14:17:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A very brief update as its 23:44 on a Friday night, but there are a few more in verification and still assigned, but we are within days of signoff at this point.
Ill be working over the weekend to ensure Mondays build will be one of the last before relaunch so better go get some sleep!
Much love,
Del
A big week in test this week with a handful of people stepping up and joining the team in the Big Test calamity! We're making some great progress in terms of finding the bugs, so good Id say its fair to say James and I are blown away by the quality of the testing so far.
The good news is it should massively increase the time to live at this point, and massively reduce the Post Live arrrrggghhhh moments with this degree of testing.
Hell, there are even some impressive suggestions...
2018-08-03 13:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to being let down massively by our testing resources and their ability to deliver on active testing, we are in grave danger at this point of missing our personal deadline without it.
We are looking for anyone with experience of testing and providing bug descriptions who would be willing to help out testing either the Android and the WebGL builds under a sandbox environment.
This sucks, and for the most part this is me becoming the bearer of bad news on po...
2018-08-01 16:07:32 +0000 UTC View Post
If you don't know already, Taps of Eradine is about to get a HUGE update that includes not only a new girl, but a whole new item drop system to boot.
In it's release, and with the shift in gears towards a more ToE focused development and update roster for Patreon, we wanted to change our tiers and offer some value for supporters in this space too, and to encourage some of the people who have been on the fence about the Ultimate Supporters Pack another channel to suppo...
2018-07-24 14:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostFishing of Eradine (working title) is slowly but surely becoming its own standalone title, and soon becoming more and more advanced in the things it contains.
I'm extremely proud of the hard work Felipe has done to make this mini-come-maxi game the best fishing game in any RPG and it now even has its own shop!
From a Shards perspective, we will be including new doors that are now "open" for business, but we are loving it so much there is a high degree of likelihoo...
2018-07-23 11:44:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We are finally in the new office and the previous week has been spent getting back into the groove and getting this update finished. There are many bugs and little tweaks that have been completed this week. We have the new Daily Spin panel finished as well as the New Nymph has been fully added with all the new stats and scenes for her.
The Gahder shop has had some tweaks too so we can offer weekly deals in a much more streamlined fashion including deals with items on sale too. So, if we...
2018-07-02 20:11:43 +0000 UTC View Post