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Another Month, Another Bunch... of stuff!

Special Peeps:

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simmonsonawhim has recently reached loyalty reward status for being a patron for 3-months! A bunch of stuff is in the mail and headed your way!

Booregaurd has also reached this status, a message has been sent to you on patreon with further instructions.

Also, if you Special Pass users aren’t able to view this please leave a reply here or send me an ask. I fear that people are missing out if I post this after payments process instead of before... Still getting used to how this thing operates heh :I

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Some Patreon suggestions. What we plan to do on our patreon is have an early release date for our videos. Patreon supporters will be able to see it a week early with no advertisements. We're also thinking of offering monthly drawings for free stuff from our shop. Could also have "Making Of" videos exclusive to patreon supporters. Could also allow patreon supporters to vote on what game you do next.

Yeah but that's still exclusive content which is the thing I'm aiming to avoid.It becomes an extra step of having to prepare content for use with another platform in the hope that the handful of people contributing to you will actually see it in time.

It's something that works fine on paper but doesn't work so well on execution unless you either have a huge influx of people contributing from the start.

The majority of my content are looping GIFs. Not a whole lot to work with, haha. Removing watermarks is about the best I can do in that regard. The "Making Of" setup I had before was giving people access to the art stream and the time lapses early but in most cases I draw the thing and then upload it the next day.

Like I said there just aren't enough people for it to be justified, it also means every time I go to stream I have to log into Patreon, make a new post with a link to the stream and then I have to update the password and so then the feed becomes clogged with stream posts that I have to delete and it just creates more unnecessary work for me in the long run.

I kind of want a sense of community where people chat to me and chat to others in the same way that they're starting to with Twitch, it can be annoying in some ways if people are being critical of what I'm doing but it's still something and that's better than just sitting there drawing with nothing going on for me to distract myself with.

The contribution tiers I have in place aren't high enough for monthly drawings and I wanted the loyalty options in place because I want contributors to feel like they're contributing toward something mutually beneficial in the long run. The pass cards may just seem like a piece of plastic to some people but they're representative of the time and money someone has taken to support me, sort of like a step up from just saying thanks in addition to shouting their name out across the internet.

Don't get me wrong, the ideas you're offering are good and they may benefit you quite well but it's a scheme that would end up locking me into something I can't always guarantee and something that I would have to put extra time and effort into for something that nobody would end up seeing or making use of.

I wasn't intending on this answer to be so long...

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Changes to Patreon ~

I just wanna say that my monthly shout-out post has been a bit delayed this month because the new tumblr layout doesn't let you edit the HTML of posts, meaning I have to manually insert the avatars of each user as I go.

I'm working on a nicer looking post as a result...

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ANYWAY! Hey guys (most notably my Patreon Supporters), this is justa quick update to explain a few changes I have made to my Patreon services, forthe majority of you it isn’t really going to change anything but it’s something I need to mention anyway and should you feel the need I’ll understand if you either wish to change your contribution amount or remove it completely.

Firstly, I don’t feel like exclusivity is any justification for payment. I have always felt this way but couldn’t think of anything else I could offer people that would actually make them want to support me, I still can’t think of anything. It’s on that note that I have removed virtually all exclusivity. The contribution tiers are therefore dependent entirely on what you think I am worth and what expression of appreciation you want out of it as a result.

Second, the pledge tiers have therefore been adjusted a bit. I feel that while having a private art stream is a good idea in theory, the reality is that I’ll get maybe one of you tuning in every couple of weeks and usually it ends up being a simple greeting before you tune out or go idle.

Therefore, the art stream is now open to the public and I will be posting on tumblr each time I go live so that it’s easier to be notified. I found that Patreon has a really annoying habit of signing me out constantly and while I don’t know if that’s affecting everyone else it kills my motivation to post updates there. I want to remove myself from its feed as much as possible.

Seeing as the art stream was the $2 tier beforehand I have decided to change it to another variation of public shout-outs in terms of the number of exposure it provides.

$1 gets you a mention in my Hall of Fame, entirely dependent on those who click in there to see what it’s all about.

$2 gets you a visual mention on my Twitch GameStomp Stream, all contributors will be mentioned one at a time while the on-screen boo throws fireballs to change the names that appears, entirely dependent on who is viewing at that point in time, or viewing archived replays.

$3 adds you to the Monthly Shout Out posts where I express my thanks to everyone at once and include their avatars, links to their blog and a caption of their choice to be included, this goes out to all of my followers’ feeds. 

So as I said, nothing exclusive means that everyone has access to everything I do, but those of you that wish to support me will be mentioned in a number of ways, each costing you a dollar a month depending on how many you want.

Third, to my $5 supporters I have changed the tier just a little bit. The “exclusive” content will instead be watermark-free versions of the animations I release publicly, so essentially the exact same content but without the border and website in the corner (unless the border is required to indicate things are happening off-screen). High-Res images will still be posted but only if they actually look good. This means any item I make into a sticker or a print will be provided to you at the same resolution. This content will be posted once per month during the Monthly Shout Out and will link to the private post on Patreon containing the download once you log in. This will be a lot more convenient for everyone.

So then! This will provide me with a lot more flexibility when creating content. My scheduling system is nice but it only really works for things like Twitch where I don’t have to rely on my mental state anywhere near as much, I’m not always feeling motivated to draw unfortunately. Art is just going to be a whenever thing, still regular but just not on any given day and certainly not with any sort of obligations to produce content. One thing I can guarantee is that there will be at least 2-3 art posts a month and if you feel that’s worth the extra $2 on top of the shout-outs you receive then great!

Thanks to all of you once again!

Your support is always super appreciated and I want to offer as much as I can without taking the experience away from others that (for example), may not be old enough or fortunate enough to have access to online funds.

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First Patreon Milestone reached! I also just hit 5000 followers over the weekend so thanks and hello to a lot of new faces!