The Game Plan (Patreon)

A lot of you folks have been asking questions of us, and we've been hesitant to answer some of them except in a private manner for some time now, due to not having a clear idea of how much we'll be able to deliver on. That said, I feel that  we need to address some of these questions immediately, and at least give you guys an idea of what we WANT to do with all of this. After the July 30th update, the Alpha v1.01 post, a lot of this will be going up on the front page, which is woefully under informing at the moment.

1) We are planning a 2 year development cycle for this. This is a very tenuous decision right now, and it might grow or shrink, but it's a pretty safe bet right now. Everything in our pipeline is designed to get you guys a fully functional game by that time, and then letting us either decide to publish it as is at that point, or to continue development just expanding the options on a fully existing game. It will likely be put up to a  $2+ pledge level vote, but again, it's really too early to be making firm plans on that front.

2) We are definitely going to have the following art assets in the game.

-A Male and Female Protagonist.

-10 Sexable NPCs (their scenes will be coming slower, but I'm sure a certain segment of our fanbase will be very happy to know that Yonten is probably the very first NPC to get one).

-5 Sexable Male/Gender Undefined Monsters with their own dungeons

-5 Sexable Female/Gender Undefined Monsters with their own dungeons

-2 animated sex scenes for all of the above, one for the Male Protagonist, one for the female protagonist.

-A sprite-sex animation for each possible pairing of the above monsters.

-We will be opening up a $2 Pledge and Higher vote in that thread to let you guys determine how long you want us to wait before posting it publically.

3) Voting will open up for the $20 Level Pledges on July 30th at the same time as we release the game. In it they will vote on which male monster they want us to work on after the Harpy's designs are finalized.
-Voting will be held entirely on the patreon. We will put up the $20 pledge view only post, then make a comment stating that it is the voting comment. Each option to vote for will get it's own comment attached to that one, and I will be deleting any other comments that are not simply suggestions for a NEW option on the list (Not all votes will permit new options being added). Like a post to vote for it. Yes, you may vote for multiple posts. If two vote options tie, then we'll default to whichever of the two is higher up on the list, as we'll be posting the list in the order of originally planned development. Voting will close on the third day of me opening it up, when I wake up and announce it has closed.

-Each time we begin work on finalizing another design, we will open a vote for the next monster to get into the game. We will do this until there are 3 Male Monsters, and then begin alternating between Male and Female until we have 10 monsters total in the game. Gender Undefined monsters will be added into BOTH votes, and be clearly MARKED as such, so as to avoid confusion.

-Once we have 10 monsters decided on, we will open up voting for where you want us to focus on next. Another 5 monsters (this option will be removed once we hit 20 monsters total) and dungeons? Gender-Swaps? Making a Variant for each monster species included so far? Making Pallet Swaps? Including other types of customization such as boob/butt/hair types? We cannot promise every single one of these things will make it into the game given our 2 year production line, but it will be our $20 level pledge patrons who make the decision on what things get included.

4) Futa is tentatively in, but requires us to get a second animator for it (meaning we need to be making over $15k monthly, consistently, to afford it). Feral and Full Anthro have a massive question mark over them. Neoteny is out. It wasn't S-Purple's decision to include it in the last game, and he was never comfortable doing so before. There's too many legal issues if we continue to stick it in now that his real name is on the top of this product, and further, it was a requirement that it be stripped by pretty much every single team member (myself included) before we would join.

-Please note that Shortstack, however, is very much still in. As a kink if not a monster variant.

5) There will be at least one form of crafting in the game, cooking, but how in depth it is, and how much it's just "combine raw food effects so that you can get maximum bang for your buck when feeding it to your monsters to feed them" is up for debate. Right now if you've played Rune Factory, then that's a fairly safe bet on where we kinda-sorta see ourselves going, but we're not tying ourselves exclusively to that design vision. More details on the crafting Mechanics will come up as we reach Alpha v1.04.

6) The thing I'm sure most of you have been most worried about. Yes, the rumors are true. Yonten will be able to princess carry you, as either the male or female protagonist, around, if he's in your party, if you'd prefer it rather than walking about yourself.

-Just realized, I should clarify. This is something that will definitely be in the final build, but it's not necessarily going to be in our very first development cycle. It depends on the overall workload, but we'll try to squeeze it in.

Please keep in mind that all of these decisions are very tentative right now. They should not be considered set in stone. We don't want to promise something, then not be able to deliver on it if new information comes to light, or circumstances change for our team. I will be making a patrons only post at a later date on what we would LIKE to deliver in an totally ideal world.