the way forward

During the past month I have realized that it just feels so much better to work on whatever I feel like and not having to worry about a release schedule. Investing a lot of time into a bigger project without having to worry about what I'm going to release at the end of the week / end of the month allowed me to put a lot more focus into complex tasks.

Truly my passion is coding. Creating big complex frameworks that can do stuff that nobody has done before. Converting/modifying animations was just a little diversion at the beginning, but slowly turned into an easy way to get a weekly release out. But it really doesn't make me happy in the long run.

So I have decided to change my approach when it comes to Patreon. I will now longer try to keep up a weekly/monthly release schedule at all cost. I will work on the stuff I want to work on and if I've got something new to release I will, but if I don't I won't. This way I can focus on the big and complex mods that have been on my to-do list for way too long now.
From now on my Patreon page will first and foremost be a platform where you can support me because you like what I do. Everything you receive beyond that (or don't if there is nothing new that month) is a bonus.

Now that that's out of the way let's get into the projects. As I have already announced a while ago I have been working on toy support for OStim (specifically Lovense toys as they have approached me about it) and am almost done with that. There are only a few more small bugs I need to fix. However the next version of OStim (7.3.1) will not be under early access on Patreon, but will be released to Nexus immediately because beyond the toy support it only has some bugfixes and API features. So there will not be much new content for end users to experience without external add-ons.

Once that is implemented I will invest the majority of my time into the BDSM framework that I have been planning / working on for a while now. It's just something I really want to get done and have been wanting for a long time actually.

After that I'm not sure what's coming next. But I'm probably going to look into learning flash so that I can improve / fix the OStim UI and/or look into porting it to FO4 (and later Starfield if that ever gets a CK). But keep in mind that porting something as big as OStim to another game is a project that takes months or even years, so don't get too hyped up about that just yet.