7th Heaven and changing this patreon.

Hello Lovelies!

TLDR; 7th Heaven is delayed again and I'm going to restructure this patreon back to being an art based one.

I just wanted to talk a bit about the future of this patreon page and the development of 7th Heaven.

It's no secret that I've struggled to hit deadlines for 7th Heaven. I've tried to keep the scope of the game small and even with that it's been hard to maintain a consistent schedule. My IRL job is currently too demanding that when I do have time to work on 7th Heaven I'm just not "there".  Without getting into details, my IRL job involves a tremendous amount of scrutiny on my part and a lot of drawing that by the end of the day I am both mentally and physically exhausted. After 12-16hr days I start looking at code or the checklist of items and my brain just shuts down. I still have a tremendous amount of passion to complete the game and thankfully Aeo and Siren have been a huge help lately. But the stress of IRL work has left my brain mush. 

So I see two paths forward right now...

Option 1 - Delay 0.3 and keep going as forward with the current setup of this patreon.

I'm not really feeling this option. For one, I don't think it's fair to all of you to be contributing to a large project that is so slowly finishing. Hence why I've been posting my morning "boring meeting" drawings for you. I honestly think I should have just waited to post the game until more of it was completed rather than the current drip feed that is happening to slow now. 

Option 2 - Restructure the Patreon back to an "Art" Patreon and work on the game at a different pace. 

This is what I'm thinking will be the course of action. Posting art pieces during the week for you all with exclusive access to the time lapses and the messy versions for most pieces, first crack at commission slots and other goodies. I will continue to honor the lifetime early access for those that pledged the one time $50 tier for 7th Heaven but going forward I will probably limit early access to the game and just release public builds or something similar. I'll think about that course over the week as I restructure.

I will of course refund all patrons for January if they request it. 

There's a mantra about fan projects that goes something like this. "If you're working on a really cool fan project... Shut the fuck up about it." There's so many underlying things that go along with this mantra. But the one main thing is "After the luster of announcing the game, the work becomes worse." And that is kind of what has happened here. Out of no ones fault but my own. Because my IRL job responsibilities have limited my time to work on 7th Heaven and my desire to keep up with deadlines for you lovely patrons the work has just become harder and more stressful. Restructuring that Patreon to be more Art focused and detaching 7th Heaven from it, frees me of some of that stress. 

I know this might seem complicated. My main two concerns is keeping you happy as patrons and not being as stressed out as I am currently. I hope that makes sense to you all.

I'll begin restructuring the patreon later this week with new tiers and will obviously refund anyone for this months patronage. I understand some of you will cancel your patronage and I hold no ill will towards those that do so. I thank you so much for your support and I'm sorry things have to go this way. I hope you keep enjoying the work I do even if you choose not to support me on patreon.

I hope you all understand and I thank you immensely for the support and patience you've given me.

Have a sexy day!
-Phazyn