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9 years ago
This is mainly for Project X fórum, but I think it will be good to put it here too:
Well, I got an attention call from Pen, because, seems our fans are getting more impatient than usual, and seems I will be forced to explain some stuff, that I think they was already stated, but here we go again.
1.QUALITY
As you guys know, in each release, we try to improve our art, our animations, our quality sprites, our gameplay mechanics, making stages more complex, introducing new elements, and those things, takes a lot of time, if we lower our quality, people complains, if we wanna make it better, we are doing better animations, bigger ones, with zooms, and a lot more complex and exciting, that increases the ammount of time of the development a lot.
2.TIME
We all are people with jobs, studies, family attendances, and we are not workers that make this game as a full time job like other indie games that they make it to monetizing their work and get money. This means, we make the job in our free time, sadly, that free time can variate from the team members, and due the fact, the team members are helping and doing it as a hobby, I can't force or exige them to work faster and better, we all do what we can.
Wanna check how my free days goes in my job? take a look:
http://imgur.com/6nJ3zoT
The green arrow is today, the day I will post this topic, if you looks close, the name with the red circle, dissapeared, the poor guy got fired, and the green crosses are my free days, yeah, count, in 21 days of work, i just have 2 free days.
2.OWN EXPERIENCE IN THE TEAM
As the head of the Project, all the things falls over my shoulders, and sometimes, I can't really handle all the ammount of work I have, and I don't mean just from this Project, as you can see, I'm veeeeeeery short of free days, and being totally honest, when I have one, I wanna rest, or I will die, currently in my life, all the places where I look, I can see the word job and work written in all the places, Job, Family, Project X, Drawings, Homework, and go on.
3.MONEY
As all of you know, we never forced anyone to donate, and we don't release the game depending the donations of our fans like in other projects, we don't make our game to win money, in the past, I was thinking several ways to monetizing the game and get some cash, but after some time of thinking, I never did it, I always have the thoughts that the money corrupts this kind of games, and I'm now even more reaffirmed seeing of Breeding Season ended up, and I don't want this to happen to my game, so, the development will keep its curse, and the game will be made, with, or without donations.
4.DONATIONS
I will be very clear and transparent here, money, helps, all the donations I already got, was for the Team members, I barelly use money for myself from the donations, actually, I'm the one that are the worse payed from all the members (excluding indeed the new incorporations) and I use the money to help other members that needs stuff more. But lets be honest, money/gits/whatever are what makes a team member gets compromised and work their ass off to make their job, because, when any of us, or any person who receive something, they feel in debt, and thats the gasoline to make the engine start moving.
I have to say, that we didn't receive a single dollar for months (and not 3 or 4 months, more) the donation drive for Milles is great, and I'm happy that people help him, hes a great guy and deserves it (thank you Milles :3) but Milles not are us, and the money goes entirely for him.
The mentality of our donators and fans are: When you release an update, is when I'm going to donate, while it not happens, I will not put a cent, but that's actually not helping, the gifts are better to make people work harder and better in the middle of the development, you can say is something like a bribe, but it works, and just waiting until we release something, is like a punishment for us in some way.
I don't beg money, that's not my thing, I got my Ps Vita broken, and I worked my ass out with drawing commissions until I get a new one. Now Eclipse got his graphic card burned, I was going to get a new one myself (Doom not works on my comp ;w; that hurts) and send my current one by mail to him, but things are getting worse for me, and is starting to be difficult to save money for my new one, I will be totally honest, the donations I will receive, will be for me (is about time) and let me send my card to ecli, so if you guys wanna help, is the right time to do it.
Thanks for the attention.
Well, I got an attention call from Pen, because, seems our fans are getting more impatient than usual, and seems I will be forced to explain some stuff, that I think they was already stated, but here we go again.
1.QUALITY
As you guys know, in each release, we try to improve our art, our animations, our quality sprites, our gameplay mechanics, making stages more complex, introducing new elements, and those things, takes a lot of time, if we lower our quality, people complains, if we wanna make it better, we are doing better animations, bigger ones, with zooms, and a lot more complex and exciting, that increases the ammount of time of the development a lot.
2.TIME
We all are people with jobs, studies, family attendances, and we are not workers that make this game as a full time job like other indie games that they make it to monetizing their work and get money. This means, we make the job in our free time, sadly, that free time can variate from the team members, and due the fact, the team members are helping and doing it as a hobby, I can't force or exige them to work faster and better, we all do what we can.
Wanna check how my free days goes in my job? take a look:
http://imgur.com/6nJ3zoT
The green arrow is today, the day I will post this topic, if you looks close, the name with the red circle, dissapeared, the poor guy got fired, and the green crosses are my free days, yeah, count, in 21 days of work, i just have 2 free days.
2.OWN EXPERIENCE IN THE TEAM
As the head of the Project, all the things falls over my shoulders, and sometimes, I can't really handle all the ammount of work I have, and I don't mean just from this Project, as you can see, I'm veeeeeeery short of free days, and being totally honest, when I have one, I wanna rest, or I will die, currently in my life, all the places where I look, I can see the word job and work written in all the places, Job, Family, Project X, Drawings, Homework, and go on.
3.MONEY
As all of you know, we never forced anyone to donate, and we don't release the game depending the donations of our fans like in other projects, we don't make our game to win money, in the past, I was thinking several ways to monetizing the game and get some cash, but after some time of thinking, I never did it, I always have the thoughts that the money corrupts this kind of games, and I'm now even more reaffirmed seeing of Breeding Season ended up, and I don't want this to happen to my game, so, the development will keep its curse, and the game will be made, with, or without donations.
4.DONATIONS
I will be very clear and transparent here, money, helps, all the donations I already got, was for the Team members, I barelly use money for myself from the donations, actually, I'm the one that are the worse payed from all the members (excluding indeed the new incorporations) and I use the money to help other members that needs stuff more. But lets be honest, money/gits/whatever are what makes a team member gets compromised and work their ass off to make their job, because, when any of us, or any person who receive something, they feel in debt, and thats the gasoline to make the engine start moving.
I have to say, that we didn't receive a single dollar for months (and not 3 or 4 months, more) the donation drive for Milles is great, and I'm happy that people help him, hes a great guy and deserves it (thank you Milles :3) but Milles not are us, and the money goes entirely for him.
The mentality of our donators and fans are: When you release an update, is when I'm going to donate, while it not happens, I will not put a cent, but that's actually not helping, the gifts are better to make people work harder and better in the middle of the development, you can say is something like a bribe, but it works, and just waiting until we release something, is like a punishment for us in some way.
I don't beg money, that's not my thing, I got my Ps Vita broken, and I worked my ass out with drawing commissions until I get a new one. Now Eclipse got his graphic card burned, I was going to get a new one myself (Doom not works on my comp ;w; that hurts) and send my current one by mail to him, but things are getting worse for me, and is starting to be difficult to save money for my new one, I will be totally honest, the donations I will receive, will be for me (is about time) and let me send my card to ecli, so if you guys wanna help, is the right time to do it.
Thanks for the attention.
(also you put 2. twice)
Yes, my donation drives have gone to me, those are to pay for server costs, domain names and software licences. As well as to try and keep me afloat whilst Unemployed (Utilities, Car Bills, etc)
I thank you all for your support to me, and for those of you supporting the game as well.
I have a few ideas in mind for money raising and stuff, for instance, did you know that if every active member of the forum donated just $1/mo we'd make over $2,000/mo! (Yes, that's USD)
If all registered members donated $1/mo it would be nearly $5k/mo!
We aren't a small community, and support is always greatly appreciated.
I'll be working on making it clear which donation button goes where in the near future.
also i wanna ask ya this but i rather pm ya about for my work
Take your time, do not rush, do things calmly.
If people push you, it's normal, you know that is because they love the effort they do, but must wait, and that is something that should be understood.
Many greetings, and good luck with your work; not lose heart or forces, there are many people who support you and wish the best for you.
I will be honest, i DO hope that Zeena becomes an Unlockable pLayable character at some point.
Love you Zeta <3
but I bet all of the people whining about Project X not being out (because irl lives and times) are probably whining about that one Babysitting Cream pedo-fur game not coming out and yelling at the artist for why it's not coming out when it's dead in the water because the main programmer dropped off the face of the earth. Art's all done but if there's no programmer, there's nothing that could be done.
tl;dr: Take your time on finishing your game. I agree on running a Patreon to cover costs related to the game and time spent as it will take a while and fuck the whiners who dont understand how long and tedious development is on projects.