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March 2020 - Updates, Tiers, Artwork, Customs
🕑 Added 2020-02-25 03:30:37 +0000 UTCAnother test of something new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfhzKztd2gY&feature=youtu.be
Hi everyone!
To make my wall of texts easier to skim, if you only want to read about the basics just look for the bolded writing to read about that part. The video above is just tests of the 2 events before I work out their direction.
So after a few weeks break from finally finishing Tsumi, I've actually been bedridden from twisting my back or something so it's been hard to get out of bed for the past week let alone get ready to search for a part time job >:( So in the meantime I've been thinking again, reviewing the survey, and thinking about what my goal's always been. While my Patreon's been more of an appreciation thing and to help fund assets to use in the games, I always intended it one day (probably after GSim was finished) to work on monthly updates, new games, comics, and other cool content for people to enjoy. A mix that caters to gentle lovers (like me) where it can feel immersive with voice acting and personality of an NPC as if she's your girlfriend etc (ASC). Evil humiliation things like Tsumi, but very easy to update as it doesn't require me to think about where I can put in an event so it doesn't break story, and the in between (GSim) where it's like a mini pokemon/harvest moon type game you can replay. After Tsumi, Patreon pretty much blew up, I got a ton of messages, requests, and best of all.. a lot of appreciation for my work, and even people wanting to support a lot extra than $5. So, below I'll explain what I'm going to do for each thing, and I hope it does show my appreciation too, and I'll also be moving to providing monthly updates to games (mostly Tsumi as it's finished) and what I can do if I reach my goal and be able to work on Patreon full time.
- March's Update: So first up the plans I have for March. While I really do need to find a part time job asap, by this time last week there has been enough support for me to work through March. Some of the things I am aiming to have in March's update is in the video above. The thing I'm working on right now is a voiced gentle/loving vore event. Where Tsumi calls a service which brings tinies to her house and she can get pampered. In this case an inside tummy massage etc. I was planning for a foot massage event but I don't have time to draw a foot but I'll see. Basically you'll be playing as a tiny half the time, or as Tsumi saying a voice line to try get the tiny to walk in her mouth and be swallowed. Then you'll be sliding down her throat (trying to see if I can give you control to try climb up a little but you'll still slide down no matter what), then a minigame inside her stomach where you have to run around and rub where she wants. In the end she'll cough you guys back out again... or those who are evil... get an option to bribe the lady to turn the other way and digest the tinies who are noncitizens but cared for by her. Other updates for March I'm looking to do is a continuation for game over events as the one there turned out to be far more popular than I thought, a 1 foot crush event, and other small updates like new areas if I can. I'll probably replace the tiny city at her penthouse (i'll leave option to visit there) and try see what else I can put there instead as it'll take me a ridiculous amount of time working around the movement there. Also I'm going to be giving a hell of a lot of voice lines to the actress to say (over 2/3's of people play with the dirty filter off so more of those lines etc, events when I can). Another thing that's also coming is that I am getting 2 commissioned images of Tsumi done (sadly can't afford the background) by this studio artist: https://www.fiverr.com/ivanwind/draw-anime-fanart-nsfw-manga?context_referrer=user_page&ref_ctx_id=41716cbd-bd3f-4303-a547-dd846fd536f0&pckg_id=1&pos=6# I have to wait to see the sketches they'll be providing me but if they're good then I'll be using them in the future despite the high cost. Aiming to have March's update mid-late March.
- Tier Appreciation: So in the video above at the end you probably worked out what that statue sign is for. Going forward between each monthly update, I'll be updating that sign for everyone who's a $10+ Patreon that month, and also update the best supporters list (currently John Doe (grpv) is the highest by far and nearly double 2nd place ). I'll be using your Patreon names as I won't know everyone but if you pm me what name you want I can do that as well. If you don't want to be on the list however, please do let me know!
- Tier Updates / Changes /New Goal (Now all added): I've updated the $10+ tiers and added a few more in. People who are a $10 Patreon aside from having their name listed, will also get a choice to add in 3 random lines (each month) to an npc in Tsumi Umi (as other games aren't finished yet). However those lines will come down to if it suits the game/npc. So for example if you want Tsumi to say something during an event as one of the general 60+ lines then I'll put it there. There's a limit to how much can go on a line as you've seen however. Otherwise I can add lines to Chitsu/Danielle etc. $15+ Patreons will get 5 lines, and an NPC created for them or if they provide me with their own created one. (No weird skin colour/monsters etc!). If I also reach and stay at the new goal of $1000, I'll be able to work full time on games that month and not need to look for a part time job/contract.
- Customs: One really big request that I've been getting since GSim is to do customs. I've put off customs for so long because there was someone who harassed me nonstop for $250 for a few months to make him the ultimate toilet event essentially and wouldn't take no for an answer. The other reason is because everyone has really different tastes (not anyone will make a dirty event too) and I'd be afraid of disappointing the person, or being asked the moon and stars/always revisions despite doing what that person asked me. In the survey and messages I've been getting, a lot of people want me to do customs, I am thinking about it but the thing is I'm not sure what a fair price would be. One problem is that since it's RPG Maker people might expect something really awesome, cost next to nothing, and not realize game making takes more time than your average gts/vore video to make. Plus what you'd be getting is random and repeatable. Far better than a video. So for anyone who's wanted me to do a custom for you, please let me know what you think (pm or below) would be a fair price, tell me your event how you'd want it (that fits in Tsumi) and I'll have a think after seeing a lot of peoples replies on the matter.
- Ascendance & GSim:Quite a few people love these games, especially as they have very gentle/loving events. A few people are upset I've held off Ascendance for so long also especially as the story was lovable, a goddess, and very funny. (The amount of people who really love the Vampire King scene is ridiculous in the poll XD). I really feel guilty and apologize to those who are specifically here for GSim & Asc and not Tsumi as they don't like death/killing etc. One of the reasons I let you buy normal food in Tsumi was so you weren't forced to eat tinies or kill them etc. I really want to work on Ascendance, but at the moment I'll be providing monthly updates to Tsumi first before I can even go back and work on parts of Asc. It also takes a lot to switch mindsets between each game as they're very different with where their coding is at. So what I'm thinking is to add a lot more gentle events to Tsumi. I was also going to make Ascendance a stand alone game from GSim. So if you're a lover of Asc/GSim and here specifically for those games, please do let me know, and what gentle events you were hoping to see and I'll see what I can do for Tsumi and add those in as a work around for now. Also I was looking for an artist to provide nice animeish artwork for not too much for the game, I found someone but they weren't good at listening to what I wanted let alone revisions for that matter. You can see what I mean here: https://imgur.com/a/fXbFQZQ the first image is my edited version, the 2nd and 3rd are their deliveries of the commission that I had to compile. I won't be going back to them any time soon.
I think that's everything, and hope it makes a lot of people happy. Be sure to tell me what you think (especially Asc/Gsim lovers!) if it's a good direction for me to go in the meantime. And anyone who wants customs comment below or pm me and I can get an idea on what type of customs and what to expect etc. Maybe I'm overthinking it that people will want whole new areas to explore (stuff like the mouth/throat/stomach scenes that are not easy to make) opposed to more simplistic things that won't take me weeks and expect it for next to free.
Sorry for the wall of text! I just prefer to let everyone know everything so you're not in the dark or guessing things. I didn't have an update for Feb as the game launched at the beginning of it, and I needed a much deserved rest! I'll be aiming to be someone on Patreon who provides monthly updates to things like Tsumi to make it worth your while. Opposed to working months on games and changing them to just playable previews. I'll still be doing preview games every so often however and working on Asc when I can.
Comments
Daichi
New Tiers are up and I've updated the $10+ ones. I won't notify everyone with spam so if you're reading this message then check it out and let me know if you feel anything's incorrect. The Patreon Reward Package will only be available in March's+ update of Tsumi Umi. The code has been pm'ed to those in the $10+ tiers, if you upgrade in future then the welcome message will tell you the code there now too. Also a sneak peek of what else I've started working on for March's update: https://imgur.com/a/kEnnXJ0
Daichi
The only real reason there's more vore stuff, aside from that Tsumi came from what was supposed to be the vore event. Is because I'm actually a voraphile, not into feet/crush etc but I don't mind them. So vore stuff is easy for me because I know what people like to see both evil and good. When it comes to feet I don't know anything about what's likeable past the threat of squish/playful. The problem with it also is that it's not easy to make events where the foot moves around as much. There's something I'm trying with feet in the March update as well. I'm balancing it with gentle and evil in the new area.
Djinnbo
The foot stuff being so low is kinda surprsing but then like you said I suppose its a vore focused game so a lot of players maybe just aren't into it. I liked it at least but maybe I'm just easily please lol. As for more ideas (debatable if they're good) I'd just say to have more options, different shoe types, socks/tights, barefoot, in-shoe. Maybe an event like the crush one in the office but with the really tiny people, so its like a sorta giga event? That kinda stuff. Like I said before tho Tsumi is more for vore so maybe those ideas are for later stuff idk. I'm always awkward giving ideas because I don't want it to sound like I expect someone to put them in you know? Like more is always good for me as long as it isn't burning out the person making it, Because that just makes eveything worse for everyone involved. Oh and there were those feet (and a few other) events in the mini city that were greyed out so those could be pretty fun as well.
Daichi
Thanks Jonathon! I'm aiming to put in something similar for March's update like that with gentle and showing power. So hopefully it should be what you're after!
Jonathon
Okay that was a lot of information. I hope that your back is doing better. Pain is hardly productive when you're trying to create after all. I'm most assuredly eager to see more of Ascendance both due to preferring gentle interaction and because a major part of the appeal of a giantess to me is her power but I'm fine with waiting. Tsumi has many enjoyable aspects to it after all and I'd always welcome more gentle content. Be sure to take care of yourself and avoid burn out.
Daichi
Hahaha, thanks it really means a lot to hear that. The foot stuff in Tsumi especially combat was actually voted the least liked past the vacuum event. So I thought I was doing a shit job on that. Though 2/3's of Patreons like all GTS content or are purely here for the vore. If you've got any good ideas or improvements on the foot stuff gameplay let me know before I start the 1 foot event for March! Out of all 3 games, GSim is the one I want to finish the most, but is also literally chucking together the workload that went into Asc and Tsumi put together. But it's the story and interactivity I like about it.
Djinnbo
lol honestly don't feel guilty about it like I said I'm still getting goodies not matter what and pactiny, ascendance and tsumi have all been great, and good groundwork for possible future stuff! :D Restarting to save it from spaghetti code is a totally legit reason on its own honestly it must be a nightmare to impliment anything when its like that. As for what I liked, I think it was the scope of it. The ability to be good or bad and all the different events, dialogue and options that came with it. I loved the idea of having multiple saves to do like purely good runs or purely bad runs. Maybe some would be all vore and other all crush. Sometimes just a mix. Having your own little city where you interacted with the people there and protected/tormented them. All those little events that were planned also sounded great, going to other cities to fight the military. The monsters or other giants attacking your city. I thought the dream events sounds really fun as well because you could do really weird stuff with that because it was just a dream. Also I can't deny and a crush boy myself that there was a lot of possibility for that so that helped :P (gotta say though even the crush stuff is Tsumi is pretty great. As is the city event in Ascendance.) I also like the relationship between out main characters, the story and the way it had little changes based on the preferences. I'd prefer to wait for the story so I can play through it myself, otherwise it might ruin any surprises you have. Look what you made me do I'm getting all gushy about this game fucking lol. Anyway yeah, tldr: Big game, lots to do, player choice. 10/10 best gts demo I've played.
Daichi
Now I feel happy and guilty at the same time hahaha. GSim is supposed to be my baby as it's such a big project and one with a story I really like with how I plan to do it. The remake of it is a bit of both. It's spaghetti code as it's the first time I touched MV and tried things out of the norm. For example the run event from Mio, it was using plugins that detected collision. So that's how everyone got squished/cars explode etc. Problem was every single thing had to have another event tied to it and the code in that had to say what map, event, what to do if touched and was running detection the entire time. Since GTouf gave me a plugin that allows me to change things in its immediate area, I can put more for less and opens up so much like making events replayable. Other things are stuff like the overworld, I put too much emphasis on good/evil options that buildings there had things you guys hadn't seen yet like climbing and having convos etc. But the images are terrible and it's a pain to update 20 buildings because there's like 14 pages of code on each one. There's a lot of things that were never available like how you're supposed to collect resources etc. When I go to remake the game, now I know so much more from experience, but also with sprites. I can now make entire city blocks as 1 entity rather than separate ones. Seems counter productive but it means I can make a bigger city that won't crash, more to repair etc. I'll see if I have time to make the GSim Giga event in to v0.8 next month for free. It's %80 finished and playable but certain things I couldn't figure how to fix (boats driving under her foot in water etc) but since I won't be finishing in the old version I may as well not fix those things. If I can ask, what was your favourite things about GSim/looking forward to? And if you really liked it for the story. If you don't mind spoilers I can make a long post here and tell you the summary of what's going to happen in it.
Daichi
I was thinking about getting those parts voiced. I might one day after I've completed a few game overs. There's something I'm going to try do for March's update that people will probably like but I won't say what it is as it's a lot and in case I don't make it for March. pI really want to get a conversation voiced but I haven't checked out many voice actors since I found this one as she's good, affordable, willing to say anything nearly. Other actors use different microphones and their audio turns out 50% quieter which causes me a real problem. Pactiny had that issue if you saw.
Nick2802
everyone needs a vacation some times. I am looking forward to the game update too. I love when Tsumi gets shrunk and gets a taste of her own medicine that would be legendary if it was voiced.
Paco Gonzalez
Of course I'm still around, as long as you keep making silly giantess games XD. And your games are gone of the best, they take me back to the old RPG Maker XP community... so if I can give a little help, happy to do it. BTW, John Doe is fine for me.
Djinnbo
As Xinoz said, personal life always gotta come first so don't worry about that. Personally I was always here for GSim with the other stuff being some really nice bonuses! Though I'm curious, you mentioned on the GTScity thread about how you were planning on basically restarting GSim, building it from the ground up again. Does that mean you have different plans on what you want to do for that game? Or is all the stuff that was shown/teased still part of the plan but you're just restarting because you have new knowledge? Either way, getting updates like this is always appreciated. :)
Daichi
Thanks bro, I appreciate it. I'm not the type to try please anyone (except if I have a partner) , but I do try give things to people if I feel they deserve it for the support. I don't over do things to have detrimental effects on my life anymore. I'd even say one of the reasons a lot of people haven't tried my games or looked for updates is because I speak my mind if it's within reason (The satire scene in Ascendance XD). GSim actually taught me that too about appeals. It was taking me so long to do both good/evil for an event it started demotivating me till I could figure out a good way to balance it. With Tsumi it's by far easier for me to do an event that caters to one specific appeal than to give it a ton of options and outcomes. I've always preferred making gentle stuff with the odd naughty event too.
Daichi
I live in Sydney right now, and every week I go shopping/hanging out with friends at an area called Parramatta here. There's a hospital there with the few confirmed cases of the virus in Aus. I cut it down to once a week/every few weeks now. Thank goodness some of my income comes from here so I don't need to go out as often or contracting for now! Hope things get better in Korea for you guys, worried about my Italian friends as one of them told me that some idiot with the virus escaped hospital just to go see his family, and that was a few km from where she lives.
TheXinoz
Don't be sorry for needing to take a break from game development, your personal life is far more important than trying to please people on the Internet. And don't try to make something that appeals to everyone, doing that is impossible and will only lead to disappointment.
Daichi
Hahaha, I was wondering if you were still around. I didn't actually know it was you or that you'd been supporting for that long until I looked through trying to figure out the best way to give something back as thanks! Then I saw the email address XD. Would you want me to list John Doe or your GC/Eka's name?
Paco Gonzalez
Fuck, when I started to read that didn't expected my name to appear ^///^ Been loving your games so far, and even if I don't appear as much to comment as before I just wanted to show my appreciation a bit each month. Happy to be part of the jorney!
hamshoes5
Keep up the good work. And watch out for Corona virus. Here in Korea, it feels like hell...
