On The Recent Poll Results, Tier Additions, Mobile Builds, And Release Plans.

What's up everyone?

Today I want to talk to you about three things:

1 - Latest Poll Results:

The latest patron poll meant to help me decide the order in which I'll develop the next updates has been finished yesterday.

So yeah, the winner of the poll was Val, taking first place with a whopping 68%, followed by Joana with 24% and Luana at 3rd place with 8%!

I honestly can't say I'm surprised... Considering how v0.05 was and the stuff regarding Val, it was pretty obvious that she would win.

That makes the order for the upcoming updates like this:

v0.06 will focus on Val

v0.07 will focus on Joana

v0.08 will focus on Luana

A huge thank you to everyone that casted their vote on this poll!

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty hyped to get this show on the road!

2 - Tier Additions:

You may have noticed, but I recently added 3 new tiers and made some additions to the existing tiers. They changes are as follows:

INNtern ($1): New Benefit: Now patrons from this tier or above will be able to download game updates from my own personal webserver, not having to deal with MEGA's limits anymore!

INNterested ($3): This tier also benefits from the previous tier's new addition.

INNitiate ($5): New Benefit: Patrons from this tier or above will now have access to Beta versions of the game! Beta versions are a sort of work in progress builds of the game. I'll explain them in more detail on the next topic of this post in which I'll talk about the new Release Plan. Of course, this tier also benefits from the previous tiers' new additions. 

INNkeeper ($10): This tier also benefits from the previous tiers' new additions.

NEW TIER! INNvested ($15): This is one of the newly introduced tiers. It benefits from all previous tiers' rewards and also has its very own reward. This tier's patrons can send me a phrase of their choosing to be randomly displayed at the game's Main Menu on the "Shit Writer Says" portion of the screen (the little Writer dancing at the bottom left corner)

This is part of the Online Features introduced in v0.05 and, as such, won't work if you have disabled them or are playing on mobile versions of the game (I'll go into details about mobile versions later on this post).

Bear in mind that offensive, degrading, disrespectiful or malicious stuff will not be allowed in there.

NEW TIER!  INNtimate ($30):  This is one of the newly introduced tiers. It benefits from all previous tiers' rewards and also has its very own reward.  This tier's rewards comes in the form of custom art commissions! This tier's patrons will be able to commission one custom art from me every month, with any girl and setting they want (barring Patreon restrictions, obviously). There are some restrictions to it though and I'll explain them now.

Due to the nature of custom arts and the time demanded to create them (roughly the same as the pin-ups, which take around 5 hours to create each), this can become troublesome down the road, as more and more people pledge to this tier and commission their art, eventually I'll end up working only on custom arts, and having little time left to work on the actual game, that's why I'll need to limit the numbers of custom arts I'll create each month.

Each month I'll be doing 10 custom arts, so it'll be kind of a first comes, first served system where, if you pledge to this tier, you'll have a chance to order a custom art.

These custom arts will be personal property of whoever orders them and will not be shared on this patreon page or on our discord server unless the patron themselves want to share them on the appropriate discord server channels.

NEW TIER!  INNsane ($50):   This is one of the newly introduced tiers. It benefits from all previous tiers' rewards. As the name implies, this is an INSANE amount of money! There really is nothing else I can offer to you for that much money!

This tier is intended only to people who want to support the project even further.

But, just so you don't feel left out with nothing in return, you'll get a lifetime custom Discord role on our Discord server with any title and color you want. Even if you stop pledging to this tier, you will still retain your custom role on the server.

3 - Mobile Builds:

As you may know, I had some issues with the mobile version of the game during the release of v0.05. After spending a lot of time trying to figure out why it didn't even want to boot on mobile devices, I narrowed the issue down to the Online Features introduced on this update.

Apparently the Android OS doesn't like apps from unknown sources (i.e. not downloaded from PlayStore) trying to access the internet, so it just shuts them off.

So yeah, the only way to make the game work on mobile devices was to completely strip it of any and all online features on them. So bear in mind that, if you're playing on mobile, you will not be able to use those features, even if you're a patron.

I know it feels like I went scorched earth on that, but it was really the only way to make it work for now. Later on, if I find a working solution for that, I may be able to introduce online features on mobile devices. Until then, that's how it'll have to be.

4 - Release Plans:

From v0.06 onwards I'll start working with a new Release Plan to avoid long droughts of new content like the gap from Beta 4 to v0.05.

This is where the new additions to the tiers will come into place.

As you may know, v0.05 introduced an In-Game Updater, a patron-only feature that lets players get their game up-to-date directly from the Main Menu. From now on, INNitiate patrons and above will be able to update their games to the Beta builds.

I'm aiming to release a Beta build every two weeks (twice a month) or after I finish a portion of the game, whatever happens first. Beta builds will not always have new story content though, sometimes they'll add new mechanics, updates to existing ones or even improvements to general player experience.

Full, finished builds will still be available for the other tiers following the normal release schedule, and the Full build will still be available publicly to everyone after 1 week of it's release.

The In-Game Updater is part of the Online Features, so, sadly, mobile players won't be able to play any of the Beta builds for now.

5 - Final Considerations

Well, I guess that's it for this post!

I hope I was clear enough. But if you have any questions regarding any of that, leave a comment and I'll be sure to reply as soon as I can!

Take care everyone!