About my Patreon, Artbook, JRPG Emojis, & JRPG Inspired Game Project

What are you making?

• JRPG Artbook - I am making a monthly digital artbook mostly containing fanart from the games I love, this will mostly contain jRPG/RPG alongside some anime fanart. It may or may not contain some original art.

• JRPG Emojis -  I'm also making jrpg artwork emojis for my protagonists(patreon-supporters).

• Draknier Story - is a jrpg-inspired game solely to be developed by me and which I am planning to release as free. This is not a one time project as I want to create jrpg-inspired games for the rest of my life. If you want to see the devblog, you can the devdiary https://www.patreon.com/gofelem/posts?tag=Game%20Development%20Diary

For the older devblog prior to my patreon, you can check it on  https://gofelem.com/projects/
  

 Why Patreon? 

With patreon, it will help me to easily connect with my supporters, get in touch, update them on what is happening, and help me get independent from freelancing.

I've been freelancing for around 8 years working on other's project, as it keeps going, my drive of wanting to work on my project just keeps growing to the point that I couldn't contain it any longer and so it was about time to work on my passion and dreams which is making my own jRPG-inspired game & jrpg artbook. There was not a single day I stopped thinking about my passion since I started and even before I started freelancing.

Why not just focus on your personal game project?

Making the artbooks helps me mentally, reignites my passion. It also allows me to share that inspiration with everyone♥. Also, it's fun to talk or share moments about these games with fellow fans of the game!

Secondly, I want to give something back to my supporters  while the development of the game is ongoing as they are supporting me w/ their valuable money. I don't think that showing progress report & expectations of my game project is enough.

Playing games for me is also a form of recreation to avoid burnout, it recharges my passion/motivation just like making fanart, and it also help me form connection with my supporters & community and also sharing the fun stuff about the games. I don't play games out of obligation, but i play it because i either love it or feel very interested. Also, jRPGs being my favorite genre.

 (The cycle would be: Play games - Draw fanart of games - Make my own game)

Besides the artbook as reward, what are the other incentives of being a supporter?

• As a supporter, you are a protagonist, and depending on what tier you are, you will also be credited in the artbook, the game project draknier story, and having access to jrpg emojis. 
There are different credit types depending on what  tier you chose to support me 

For artbook credits

• You will be credited in the credit section of the artbook.

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What are the license/terms for the Artbook?

Personal use-only. You may share some screenshot/screencap of the artbook and it's content to fellow fans of the game. Please don't sell, modify, redistribute, or upload the actual file(PDF version/high res image version) for public use. You can also wait for an upload version of the artwork (artworks I upload base from the artbook on my social platforms such as twitter).


How do the JRPG Emoji for protagonists work?

Since these JRPG Emojis are access-only content for supporters, what are the terms?

You are able to use the emojis as long as you are still a patreon supporter/protagonists of my content as you are given access.

And depending on what tier you are the terms for each tier:

3$ Tier 2 Iron Rank Protagonists
✓ Access to  small-resolution of all the emoji artworks  
✓ Requires Credit   / Attribution

5$ Tier 3 Silver Rank Protagonists
✓ Access to small-resolution of all the emoji artworks   
✓ Access to medium-resolution of all the emoji artworks  
✓  Access to emotes that have animated version(.GIF)
✓ Requires Credit / Attribution
✓ Can be used on your monetized videos, twitch page, stream sub emojis (youtube, twitch).

10$ Tier 4 Gold Rank Protagonists
✓ Access to Small-resolution of all the chibi artworks
✓ Access to medium-resolution of all the chibi artworks
✓  Access to emotes that have animated version(.GIF)
✓ Access to original high-resolution of all the chibi artworks
✓ Can be printed on your personal merchs(pillows, mug, etc.) or gifts. (personal-use only)
✓ Credit / Attribution is no longer required (Still appreciated if you credit as it helps)
✓ Can be used on your monetized videos or stream sub emojis (youtube ,twitch page , twitch).

How will we receive the reward?

Digital Artbook - You will be sent a private message via patreon for the download link along with a gumroad/cubebrush  code

JRPG Emojis - You will immediately get access when you become a patreon supporter/protagonists.

What if I want to be patreon and want the previous rewards?

I haven't finalized anything yet, but I am planning to perhaps have it available/archive in gumroad/cubebrush for a certain amount. You can also send me a message after you became a patreon supporter to inquire about the previous rewards ｡^‿^｡.

Where does our supported money go?

Some percentage will go to paypal and patreon fee. The rest will go directly to supporting me.

Reaching the 400$ goal will fully cover my monthly cost so i can put focus more on my content creation(artbook, jrpg emoji,  & game development project).

The money you support will also help me of having more access to resources and improving the equipments that will aid me on the production of artbook, video editing, game development,research materials, and being able to afford better services for servers/download source. Examples of these are-- buying software for better music production along with buying plugins for it, game engine license in order to have more access to paid features, art equipment, etc.

Are you doing any livestream?
Ocassionally on twitch! I don't often do livestream due to limited internet bandwidth (currently have 5mbps w/ daily 10gb data cap & only fast during night time) and my computer gets really slow while streaming so at time it is hard to draw especially with larger canvas(Will upgrade both in the future when I have the resources).

During stream, I communicate with my community while drawing a jrpg fanart.

Thank you for checking or taking your time to read this FAQs, if you have any more concern, you can message me directly and then update this faq accordingly.

We also got a discord (chat lobby):  http://Discord.gg/UDwwD3w
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