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New Patreon Goals (Input requested!)
🕑 Added 2019-02-20 15:49:56 +0000 UTCHeyo!
I've been thinking recently about making a change to my Patreon milestone goals. Currently my only out of reach goal is removing ads from my videos and all of my goals have always centered around the sustained existence and support of this work. (I mean, at the time that itself seemed a pretty lofty goal!) But recently it's occurring to me how much more value I could add to this work using further contribution.
For example, I've been working on the art for this action RPG tutorial series. I'm not much of a pixel artist but I can make things that are workable and clear, in fact here's another sneak:
But imagine for example if I was simply able to pay an experienced artist to produce work for these tutorials? Work that you could also keep and use in your beginner projects just the same as what we do now. We could really step up the quality (and production speed) of some of my videos and add extra value to the source code package that comes with them.
I've also talked about subtitles and transcription and hiring help with this as well. There's many ways I can add more value to my work. So it's possible we'll come up with more ideas over time as well.
I also still really believe that my work would be better without ads, but at the same time, I'm realizing that having outgrown dependence on ads is the bigger win for the work, for me and for you all than just not having them on the videos. I think this is something you've generally felt too whenever I've discussed the ads goal and many of you aren't too fussed about it. So while I'd keep it as a goal, I think it's time to push it back in favor of using that money to do things that add more value to the videos.
So while I might need to properly cost and adjust this what I'm thinking is the following:
$1000 (already reached) - Sustaining the work, full time.
$1500 - Transcription & subtitles! Hiring in people to help with subtitles and translations to bring my videos to more people and places.
$2000 - Art budget! hiring artists to produce animations and tilesets for new videos. Leaving me to focus on scripting, recording and editing.
$2500 - All work becomes ad free!
Let me know what you think below.
Comments
I'm ad free anyway (Premium subscriber), so i'm happy with the goals.
Luiz Gustavo Alves
Loved that approach you're taking, you do draw good pixel art, but being able to just focus on code could help improve even more your content, it's also a shame that we barely notice that you do all the artwork for your tutorials, this shows how much you care about what you're doing, thank you so much for doing it, I hope your reach your goals faster :)
