I check patreon almost every day for updates. But unfortunately the only thing I see is a decrease in the number of patrons. To be honest, I'd hoped for an update earlier this month. I understand that the wait is worth it, but would be cool if there were progress reports at least once a month.
I used to think the same as you and wanted a monthly report, but based on the current situation (zenkuro disappeared for 2 months) i just want zenkuro not to keep silent and say something in the discord.
It is his game and should do what he wants with it, but giving zero updates isn't professional or fair to the people giving you money.Assuming Zen isn't sickly (in which case I hope he gets better) or way too busy to deal with his game, that would have been an example of how to do it when you are both the developer and the artist and have to draw your own original art too so people don't rather quickly get to assumptions the project got canned.
It's an alpha and he didn't do too bad project-wise - credited all of the people who helped him and even went out of his way to code things the traditional way. He did bite quite a bit more than he can chew but that's no seppuku reason if he can fix it early or decide to take his time and implement little things here and there as he gets them done.
Just remember, Zen, please don't let your project become simp-driven. It's your fucking game. If it has no soul and no motivation left in it and there is no turning back, no matter its current development stage, please nuke it from orbit before it's too late.
Deadlines are imaginary, bad stress is toxic. Anxiety damage is real. Sites like Patreon call rewards what is supposed to be tipping money. This is literally supposed to be "just make something you're satisfied with, stay motivated, don't lose hope, love you big time" with whatever psychological or financial support you can send, no matter how meaningful. The sites that genuinely do this are actual support sites, but let's not.
Depressed bitch without any motivation left whatsoever writing a shitpost about not losing hope...
Patreon is you give them money and they make a game or create art and your reward is them doing said thing.
poor sweet soulUpdate from a discord mod :
"he's busy with some irl stuff right now, but hasn't died/stopped working on the game"
It's not over
So what's wrong with communicating this himself? Mod is probably just trying to get everyone to shut up about it.Update from a discord mod :
"he's busy with some irl stuff right now, but hasn't died/stopped working on the game"
It's not over
That's probably better than people pressuring him to release an update and causing more stress for him than there already is.
You're talking as if the mods are complicit or something when they literally got pinged on the server to comment about the situation.
a friend of a friend who used to date some girl whos ex bf knows a guy that knows a mod said that devs still alive
You keep writing walls of text without understanding the core thing people are annoyed about which is posting updates and I don't mean a game update I mean just a progress update.
