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This is my Mindset
🕑 Added 2022-07-28 11:00:05 +0000 UTCHi FreshMen,
I want to share a bit of my current mindset with you.
Money
Many creators just want enough money to get by, and work solo or in a team of up to 3 people. If they make 90k a month, they won’t hire anybody else for the team. Their productivity level is about the same, no matter how much money they receive.
I have a different mindset: I believe that if I earn 30k a month, I can have 10 people working on the game. If I have 90k a month, I can have 30 people working on the game.
If I read the right books, and execute it properly, we can make every dime we earn as effective as possible.
Balance Immediate progress and long-term progress
We can invest our time in two manners:
A) Focus on short-term progress. Don’t have long-term projects. Don’t stop to repair anything.
B) Split some effort on the now, and plan some projects that are going to generate results only 12 months in the future.
You can’t see it, but we are reading books on marketing, management, and overall game development. We are studying and developing new tools to make our tasks easier in the long-run. We delete old projects and ideas that no longer work. Every day is an opportunity to rethink our processes and plans.
You can’t see the result immediately, you’ll only see the effects 12 months in the future. The only thing you’ll see is a dip in immediate productivity.
Over the last few months, we made many decisions that favor the long term over the short term.
If you are patient, you’re going to reap these rewards:
- Migration from Daz to Blender: Lots of learning and new tools.
- Hire and train people: Every recruit actually slows down the team for their first month. It takes a while until they become 100% effective.
- Translation Team: Seamlessly request and receive translations.
- Making our own environments: better quality than ready-made environments, but slower.
Julia’s changes
The script of the game has around 65k words. We changed only ~200 words (0.3%) because of Julia. So, 99.7% of the game is the same. And the changes only affect Episodes 1 and 2.
Steam
There is a formula to estimate the new revenue of Steam games, but I’m going to give you a shortcut.
For a game that costs U$15
- 500 reviews = $140,000
- 1,000 reviews = $280,000
- 2,000 reviews = $560,000
- 5,000 reviews = $1,400,000
- 10,000 reviews = $2,800,000
Now imagine if we could ship a new Season on Steam every year.
And imagine if we could convert some Steam users to our Patreon.
If you want us to hire more people and make the game faster, then Steam is the way!
Comments
Marvelfreak3000
I posted about it in this post and someone deleted it. It was a long post also.
OppaiMan
What is wrong with Lily?
Marvelfreak3000
So you are willing to change the script for Julia BUT not for Lily? I get it that she has way more supporters than Lily does.
Nashi762
As a bonus, how about 3-5 images per character? As an example, private or sexy images that are not depicted in the book would make the purchaser happy.
学飞 王
You can add some dlc, these dlc can be a collection of music that appears in the game or a rendering that you make specially for the character, these content does not need to really enrich the content of the game itself, because steam players know that these dlc are purchased to make Capable people support creation
OppaiMan
Makes sense. What kind of content should be added to the "Special Edition"?
Nashi762
I misspoke, Special Edition is correct, not Luxury Edition. This is a common option when pre-ordering some console games. Many people who purchase the regular edition on Steam may not support you as a patron. However, they may be willing to pay an additional fee as a form of support. That's why I asked the question.
OppaiMan
No plans for that right now. Do you suggest we do that? What games you play have these "Standard" and "Luxury" editions?
学飞 王
支持你们，在我关注的众多作者中，您的团队是规模最大，对于游戏受众度最关心的制作团队，这或许就是与个人创作者的不同
Nashi762
Are there any plans to separate the two editions on Steam, like the standard and luxury editions?
Oppai man, I'll be honest and say when I joined your Patreon I was only in it for the boobs, but your update posts really have shown me how passionate you are to create something much larger from this project and I really respect you and the team as creators. Keep up the good work man!
