Schemes and Machinations (Patreon)

Over the course of this year we've been working not just on the game itself, but streamlining the process around such, initially this was focused on just improving things to give us a better/more predictable cadence but now we're ready to make some additional announcements related to providing you, the fans, more insight into what's going on.

Towards that end we are officially announcing both the general plan for the game for the ~rest of the year, as well as a formalisation of what you can expect to see here on Patreon.

The game:

We will be maintaining our current cadence of 1 "focused" release every 2 months. Each of these releases has been running 50-80k words when all is said and done, plus varying quantities of art to support. Unfortunately it looks likely that some art will continue to fall through the cracks but we do continue to maintain a list/backfill gaps.

The next release will be 0.7.6.0 and is targetted for an official release in July. We will also be experimenting with a "pre" release for patrons where they will be allowed access to a no-art HTML, this is something that has been repeatedly requested so we're going to experiment, there will be a new channel on discord for patrons to report bugs/ask questions so as not to spoil or confuse people on the mainline release.

Going forward every other release will have its focus determined by a poll on patron, this will be similar to the process where you all chose the pink pill and the black box, the next vote for such will be to determine the content of 0.7.10.0 (Nov release) and will happen in August.

The official release schedule will be:

Odd numbered months: An official even-numbered release, followed a few weeks later by an odd numbered release that represents the "final" bug-fixed version of such. This is what we've been doing already but it hasn't been formally stated here.

Even numbered months: Patrons will gain access to the no-art version of the next release as stated above

There will continue to be additional bugfix releases on discord

The Patreon:

We have intermittently run polls/given progress updates here but we are going to attempt to increase both the consistency and frequency of such according to the following plan:

1/week: dev diary - this will be a relatively short post summarising what has been happening on the writing/coding side of things that week or a sneak peak at art when such is available.

15th of the month: a Patreon poll to determine future content. This will either be to determine the content of a release or to "steer" a particular plotline (currently this will be the PR Sissy Coworker). We plan to also bring back the voting for outfits/scene illustrations but we need to work off the backlog before we will be able to commit to keeping up with such.