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🕑 Added 2017-02-25 02:15:35 +0000 UTC So, I've been wracking my brain on and off, trying to figure out a more long-term bonus for the $10+ Reward Tiers, and I think I might have finally come up with something.Maybe. It remains to be seen how practical it is.
Anyway, the idea is fairly simple. What I'm considering doing is taking one of the major characters each month (likely starting with Lily) and writing/rendering intresting bits of their past. In example, one story might tell/show the tale of Lily's first fist to Eros Academy, or another might show highlights of her first day as a guide. That sort of thing. As for the format, the idea came when I remembered some mixed-media stories by the creator of the rather well known Data Ariane game. (Here's one such example )
What I'm not sure of, yet, is just how time consuming such an idea would be. How long would it need to be? How many extra renders per month does this result in me doing? That sort of thing. The plan is to experiment by making one for this upcoming month, and see how it goes.
As for using it as a reward, I'd be aiming for it to be, at least initially, exclusive to $10+ Patrons. Depending on the format, I might eventually release the stories for all Patrons (but likely not to the public) after a set time. If it works, I'm thinking I might do "series," essentially several such stories revolving around a single character, and only release them to the other patrons a month after the last story in the series is complete and a new starts. That would allow the content to eventually reach more people, but give the $10+ Patrons an ongoing reward, since at any given time they might have access to as many as a half dozen of these visual shorts that the rest of the Patrons don't.
Anyway, it's a thought. I'll experiment with it for the month of March, and see if it might be both a practical long-term reward, and something that people might be intrested in.
P.S. If you haven't played Date Ariane, you should! While Eros Academy approaches actual gameplay and goals very differntly, being a fair bit closer to RPG than it is Dating Sim (at least in the long run), Date Ariane was one of the games that both gave me the idea, and made me think I could actually pull it off. Moreover, despite now being a somewhat older game, it's still execptional in quality.
