End of the Month report, March 2020

Well this was certainly an interesting month to cap off the first quarter of the new year, and though I won't go into all that stuff I have to say that it certainly affected a few things.  Helping my mate and a few other things including allergies interfered with a few things but all in all it was a pretty standard month when it came to work productivity.  The list of stories to write is still shrinking and with no more commissions being taken for the rest of the year I expect it to be done and done long before we reach that time.  Despite my fears we actually gained a few new patreons and though we dipped a bit in income I still consider that a good month of growth.

The big announcement as mentioned above is that aside from the patreon slots that are here I will be taking in no new words as per usual commission requests.  Now once I finish with my queue I will possibly be trying out a few different things, I have a few compilation book ideas (like the twelve days of kinkmas) and maybe a YCH story or two.  That won't come to fruition until I finish with what I got and hopefully after the current crisis has passed.

Anyway let's toss away that month and focus on April, which would have been a con month except that now I find myself with a bunch more free time.  I've sort of developed a schedule that should help expedite my goals including a schedule that includes writing, streaming of writing/programming, game streaming, and then editing.  Also we have two new developments that are going to be coming to fruition; the new CYOA and the next update for Rain and Shine.  

Rain and Shine is coming along swimmingly and should finally feature all the corrupted companion quests as well as fleshing out the mall, starting the next main quest, and more shelter stuff on the survivor side of things.  I also just put down a major order for sprites this month that may or may not get implemented in the game right away, though I am versed in how to do them I may save that for the next update which will also include more sound effects and background music.  In four months time this game could look completely different from what it is now, and by completely different I mean actually have pictures in it.  :P  Background art is also being considered but since sprites are such an important part of the visual novel and will transpire through the game I decided to do those first.

The other major thing is the CYOA, which will also be for $10 patrons and will be getting started here soon.  Expect voting to happen for more pathing once I finish with that, though this is mostly a testing stage to see how long it takes to make each module and such.  Unlike Rain and Shine or any of the other projects this is far more of a straight-forward CYOA so I'm thinking that it shouldn't be as work-intensive to finish, but we'll see.  If it goes well I might also include alternate pathing choices for $25 patrons, etc.

Also other than sprites there probably won't be much going on as far as asset buying since Uncle Sam will give the ole one-two tax punch for April and then June right away, but with twitch paying out and such we might be able to swing something else as well.  Definitely not book covers, still got two that I got to edit, but maybe an additional pin-up or two.

That's about it, hope everyone has a good April and looking forward to making a whole bunch of stuff!  :D