Moonflower
Project Updates: Patreon +
You might have seen our September blog post with similar info but there's no good way to find it once it's been posted so we thought we'd do another version as a devlog for each game, we'll be going over the same information but in an easier place to see.
We get questions every now and then, "Are you still working on this?", "Can you tell us what date this is releasing?".
Yes, and no. We are absolutely still working on our games, but they're at different stages and priorities, until we're close to the end we can't actually give a date, only a target goal we're trying to achieve.
- The Inn Between: Target Release EOY 2023
- Heart Agency: Patreon Exclusive (new public update soon?👀 )
- Moonflower: Coming February
The Inn Between is our main focus, with our efforts focused on asset creation and script revision.
Heart Agency was made as a demo for Yaoi Jam for a fun project prior to releasing the demo of The Inn Between. Full development on it won't be able to happen without it's own Kickstarter, and to do that we need to finish The Inn Between first. For now it will be getting infrequent updates exclusive to our Patreon.
Moonflower comes in a little bit unique, it's been privately funded as something to assist the studio while our main team works on The Inn Between.
Long term games are tough on personal finances, so we hope that with the release of Moonflower that some of the financial pressure of being a solo developer with no active income can ease a little, and allow me to focus even more on creating without having to worry if I can pay my utilities this month.
While our Kickstarter backers get monthly updates with sprites, script exerts, CGs, BGs etc exclusive to The Inn Between our Patreons also receive updates and asset posts, but for all our projects!
Patreon is a life saver to a small creator, it allows a way to share progress and generate some kind of income, to keep creating the things people are waiting to see from us. The alternative is another day job with no time to game dev, boooo!
If you follow us on twitter you might have seen these thumbnails over time! These are some of the CGs we've posted on our Patreon across our games.
You can also find sprites, backgrounds, music, a limited comic run, and every month Patrons get to vote on who they want to see in an exclusive illustration both SFW and NSFW, illustrated by MizuYukiiro (who you might recognise the art of from games like Chess of Blades or her work on Yaoi Army comics). Patreon is the best way to keep up with our progress and see all the things that we can't show elsewhere, we're extremely grateful to our patrons as their support helps us not only create more and stress less but feeds the dev.
Tiers start at $3usd per month and go all the way to $35usd per month.
We currently have two betas available for our patrons for Moonflower and Heart Agency with further updates to come this month.
One of our rewards is discount merch!
Aside from Patreon we also have a Ko-Fi profile, for one off donations and our store until we can launch our own hosted on our website.
All our left over merchandise from our Kickstarter is available there, Keychains, Dakimakura, Prints. Stock is limited though!
You can find that linked in our linked section at the bottom!
Now we know not everybody can afford to support on patreon, (or even want to) so to try and still let non-patrons know what we've been up to we've started up a public recap of our month.
Each month we list our posts for the month and talk about announcements and relevant news, sometimes theres not much significant to share, sometimes there might be a bunch of things we can say!
Heres our most recent as an example of what the public update looks like! https://www.patreon.com/posts/public-update-78121436
Aside from these updates there are also plans in the works to do dev streams on twitch that people can follow along as i program, watch a game be make in real time! It's not very exciting but, y'know, it's an option.
This is more difficult to set-up though as my household is a very "difficult" place to achieve suitable conditions to stream AND I'm Australian so my timezone is wildly unfriendly for live viewing.
If you'd like to check us out other places we've got a handy link compilation.
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