Apocalust Progress Update and Thoughts going into July!

Hello Patrons!

This  status update I want to give an update before month end and give some thoughts heading into July.

This week was a bit slower than my previous, I’ve just started cpap therapy and trying to work through this heat wave was a bit shit but I still got a fair bit done by the end of it.

I am still not done the main content yet and it will for sure go longer than 1 week into July since this past week was slower than usual. Mainly something I notice is besides things outside my control, when I have a slow week or progress goes off the rails it usually starts off with doing some “fucking with shit work” like adding i-clone to the workflow and then eventually axing that and sticking with blender for external stuff. (which added a ton of cool stuff now though!) 

Things like this tend to rip into time and knowing that when I am fully done the main content, I have to go back to troubleshooting coding/trying to get new stuff to work (mainly the house/harem/event oriented stuff that isn’t done yet is what I am referring too) that might take a fair bit as well so I have a few thoughts and ideas for what's coming up!

I think in July I want to change a few plans somewhat. 

Though the game and more difficult to make bells and whistles stuff isn’t done. The core story/puzzle stuff basically is figured out and is more or less the easiest and also the most fun/hottest stuff for me to make. That coupled with the fact that every time I get something out the door it gives me a lot of momentum and confidence getting peoples feedback. For instance, just getting the special renders/animation and polls out to the higher tier patrons is something I get a lot of joy out of because I like to see peoples feedback and reactions to things quicker than something I am drawing out over several months. (for instance I started posting the public versions of my stuff on twitter/slushe/deviantart and that’s another place I can get feedback from, though these are just a few still images, mainly I am focusing on your guys ideas/feedback more than anything else.

This is going to be me just thinking out loud now but I want to try to set something up where I am essentially looking forward to several different things per month instead of being in a bit of a loop I tend to find myself in where I say to myself “okay you need to get this done, and this done and show this finished by this time or people are gonna think your lazy or don't care.” Again, this is literally just weird thoughts that go through my head and something I have been dealing with since the beginning (literally like 4 years ago.)

So anyhow, sorry for the ramble but ya I have an idea that gets me going and I want to share with you and get your thoughts on in the comments if you would like to give me your input.

I am going to speak out loud about timings and content delivery but keep in mind this is just a rough idea and I am not setting any hard rules for myself publicly unless I know for an absolute fact I can hit it, this is just a guideline (similar to posting schedule) of when I can get what out and the way I would like to deliver content.

0.1 I am thinking about just releasing sooner than later because I want to see what you guys think so far regardless of what is or isn’t fully completed because what’s there so far is an interesting and quirky story (in my eyes), awesome and hot scenes, and mainly animated stuff, just lacking some of the more hard and unique stuff I am making that I know is gonna take a while.

What I want to do, and again this is just me thinking out loud, is make releases and content delivery more interactive in general and more frequent, for instance the first week of a month I focus on main game content while ultra gamer poll is going, I then take a 2 day break to do the pinup stuff + animation, then go back to work on main content while a super gamer poll is running, once we are at the mid way point for a month I want to get that out for all Gamer patrons and in exchange for this, give the Super Gamer patrons more control over the minigame/scene ideas as that’s something I enjoyed a ton with these last Ultra Gamer polls I did. Then, once that is complete go back to work on the main game update for the remainder of the month (roughly a few weeks left) and aim to get the next release out before the month ends with possibly some more polls stuck in there as well because thinking up my hottest ideas and letting people vote on them is something I love to do.

Again, this is simply me thinking out loud about things that excite me and how I would enjoy release/making my content. I’ve been doing release/styles of content in ways that people simply tell me to or I am afraid they will get mad at me if I do it another way so for me I kind of just want to let things fall where they may and keep getting content out the door, as long as the game/content/pinups are improving and are something worth getting excited to experience every few weeks/month I am not overly concerned with much else, though I would also like to make you guys happy along those lines as well.

Anyhow, I would like to know your thoughts in the comments, I know this was a bit of a word salad but I hope it wasn’t too much haha.

The Ultra Gamer Rewards are uploaded here and the Early Access Pinup/s will be posted in just a few moments.

Thanks a million for the support and I'll be back in a week or so with another status update!

Enjoy the rest of your week and take care!