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Follow up post about this Patreon!
🕑 Added 2021-03-29 22:05:56 +0000 UTC**IF YOU DIDN'T READ CHAPTER 2, THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE BEFORE SPOILING IT**
If you're here from chapter #2, then... Well, you know already.
If not, the point is we still have some work to do before we have actually new content to show you.
Yes...
A full year of research and...
All the content we have to show for are those GIFs on chapter #2. ^_^"""""
Though..
However...
We really have on our hands the tool used to create those GIFs.
And it has every gram of potential that we say it has on those chapters.
When we talk about chasing the Shinkai Singularity, we mean it.
Seriously. It's for real. We're going to stake our lives on it.
I mean, look at this (again~)!!
**NSFW**
https://www.patreon.com/posts/49536015
If you've been here a while, you know that our art never looked this good! Not even close.
Oh yes, and there's the mini-game too. Right now it is on its most basic form, but there are some updates to it already planned out and we're pretty confident it's going to allow huge feats of artistic and player expression.
Either way, back to the matter at hand.
Truth is,
The engine and the tools we have are still *not* enough to tackle that voyage.
All we have right now is essentially just the engine of the ship.
Without the other parts like the hull, the wheel, the propeller, etc, we can't really go anywhere just yet.
There was nothing that we wanted more in this world than to resurface with the full remake of ADwP filled with sakuga-level animation, supra-realistic backgrounds and coherent gameplay, but alas... The real world called and we had to answer.
Ok, so the thing with the charges is... Well, first a little more recapping:
We did quit our jobs about 2 years ago to dedicate ourselves full time to this project. We had savings, and the contributions from you folks really helped out a lot.
We were so sure that a a break through would happen in just a few months at the time. However, for each problem we solved, two more showed up.
And when the 'rona rampage started, we just had to pause the charges. With no income, we were burning fat up until now.
We are fine. We are not starving or facing homelessness or anything close to it.
However, our last pair of headphones died a week ago, and we realized that we couldn't afford a new one. And that's kind of bad when you're in the business of making games that have sound.
If we buy a new pair of headphones, we will have to let some bill go overdue, which will snowball out of control since there's near to no source of income.
This is why we can't really afford to keep going with this project without having some income.
We don't need a lot, which is why we are *not* going after freelancing or new jobs just yet. We trust this project with our lives at this point, and we've never been closer to finally stabilizing it than now.
-- INTERMISSION --
I know that depending on where you live you must be thinking: "There's no way a couple of people can live on $400 a month", but before we took the plunge we had the 5head idea of getting to a country that would multiply our savings by, like, five times. Excellent idea. Until said country decide to give 'rona the middle finger and become probably the worst responder to it.
We were already clean freaks and hermits before, so we managed to dodge the bullet until now, but the cracks are starting to show on the infrastructure around us and it's becoming kind of scary. We are so moving out the first chance we get.
-- END OF INTERMISSION --
Because of all of that, we are committing to a drastic decision. We are bringin' in a new member to the team.
She will be the one that will be running this project from now on while we are promoted to the position of The People Behind It.
We will focus on building the ship, while she will navigate it around the best she can with what we have so far.
I'm talking teasers, weekly posts, tweets, GIFs galore, "Coffee Breaks" (will be explained on the next post), and all that jazz.
I'm not saying she has a gun pointed to our heads or anything, but if we spend more than a week without progress she *will* start posting source files and sketches, which might be our very worst nightmare. It's gonna, huh... It's gonna be a change of pace, at the very least.
She will also personify most of the things around here. You'll see what we mean by that soon enough.
OK OK, THE BOTTOM LINE IS:
This Patreon page is no longer gonna be about supporting the games. It's about supporting the creators.
We can't keep operating like the others that manage to offer exclusive things in exchange for pledges. It didn't work then and it won't work now.
Don't worry about what we have already promised you. We will get to it. The skins, the characters, the extra content, it will all be done for the sake of rewarding those pledges if nothing else.
The only difference is that *from now on*, the rewards will all be based around shaping up the game's development instead of extra content or exclusive access to stuff.
We fully understand if anyone doesn't like this new direction and decides to leave, and as we said we will always refund your pledges if you so wish.
Well, if you're still cool with it and wanna help us taking this ship to the Promised World, then Welcome Aboard, fellow madlad!
The new member will introduce herself on the next post, detailing the schedule, the new rewards, and how this whole operation will get back on track!
Al'righty then, folks, that will be it from us, I think.
We'll still be around in the backstage, specially me, the writer. She's getting up to speed on her English and might need some help rendering out some of her thoughts every once in a while.
Thank you so much for reading all of this, and see you soon~~!
