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https://www.patreon.com/posts/6177626
The Centaur will be the next monster released after the Harpy has been finished off with her designs, animations, and sprites. (A note to our $20.00 patrons, we don't mind you sharing the lists or votes, or telling people how they're going, but we won't make that decision for you, keep it private, or post it publicly on a forum or in the comments, it's all of a piece to us)
There will be a month's delay between patron-only releases of the game, and after that point we will change the status of the post to a public format.
As promised, the post displaying the mechanics we had hoped to involve in the game (and as you all know, some are more buggy than others) is displayed here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mechanics-of-v0-6092308
Comments (15)
the link in my email just lead me to a big fat error screen
Send a reply to us on this and tell us. It's important we nip this in the bud if there's problems.
i would love to see dragon or lizard man on the next poll :)
Poll list isn't changing the next 2 times.
Hey TN Loving how much you've been able to put out in such a short amount of time, just wondering (not to pester as I'm sure you've received this question a hundred times in the last few days) is the any update on the status of e-mails? :)
We've managed to get the system functioning now we think, there might be a few duplicates sent out, for which we apologize, but new entries will be added to the system shortly.
Hi again. I'm sorry, I know that's not the correct topic, but I thought I would write under the newest post. I noticed that many people had problem with monsterxmonster animations being sprite, and I thought it could be a cool idea, to add a pin-up for each of those combinations (what I mean is, all those animations would remain sprite, but then there is a "climax" pin-up for each of the pairing, and it could be done either by the same artist, or guest artists etc. and of course could be in the same position, as the monsters were in the sprite animation). What do you think? It could be a good way of giving the extra "kinky" part to the monster x monster breeding, without adding too much work :)
We'll need to consider it. It's a possibility, but not even going to claim it's a strong one. Again, even if we assume it's only one picture for each pairing, that's potentially 20*20=400 pairings, even before you get into genders. Then it's 20Species*20Species*2Gender=800Combos Now let's say we even add ONE variant to each race (which already have genders). That's 20Species*20Species*2Genders*2Variants(One for each gender)=1600combos. And so on, and so forth. And I'm pretty sure my math is OFF here. I think it actually works out to be a great deal more in the end. You can see how this spirals out of control. The entire reason we are sticking to animations and pictures for just the protagonists, is that the art load increase is purely additive. If we start applying that to Monsters, then it grows exponentially instead.
I think in terms of such things like bug fixes, it would be a good thing to do, but it might be bad as well, hard to say. First of all it gives the "tangible" feeling of "wow, I'm really contributing, cool!" to those, whose payments went through, which is really nice, and as mentioned above, it kinda has this VIP vibe to it :D And also people can be more grateful for receiving an earlier hotfix thanks to their patronage. On the other hand, those people whose payment does not go through might feel punished. Of course there are a lot of those, who are shifty etc. and I agree that they should not get to be rewarded in such case, but there are also people, who genuinely want to help, but their payments are declined/rejected by some random issues. Also, it might be quite a headache when you guys would send out the "minor" updates to the successful donators, and most probably for the next 2 weeks after that you would have to keep following up with sending the same to people, whose payments went through later, or they claim that it went through but the system doesn't show it etc etc. I guess the idea is nice in theory, but I feel like for You, the CM team, it would be just a headache to do such a thing ;)
If the time span is an issue, well, we can always delay the bug fix release to the half month mark, and send that out fully. I think anybody who was serious about paying will have found a way to do so within those 2 weeks?
will you eventually (probably in the distant future once you really take off) have the same system that breeding season had where the patrons have the earliest/best build and have those that want to play for free are behind and get the inferior build; or will this always be a patron only game. thanks for taking the time to read my question.
This was decided in the previous thing. Each build will be publicly released 1 month after the initial release.
I dont think that would be a good idea. It sounds alright in theory but i've had payments decline before and i would be devastated that not only did i not get to contribute to one of my favorite creators on patreon but that I'd also be punished for something that might be completely out of my control.
Yeah that's why I'm hesitant about it. Major content releases would never be distributed in this way, but would it be bad for things like the upcoming hotfix?
Also something we're considering doing, but not sure if we should, is sending out the initial bug fixes only to people whose payments processed, rather than posting it publicly, but considering that this would also hurt people with declined payments, who often have legitimate reasons, we're not sure about it. To be clear, the bug fixes would be included in the next major update ANYWAY, I'm talking the hotfix being worked on right this moment in time. ~JH PS: Telling you guys this now to get a general sounding on how well recieved it would be, the team hasn't made even close to a final decision on this front.