- Jun 14, 2018
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Yeah, but most of the projects you see on this forum and Patreon are done by one guy. To be fair, he also probably used a pre-existing game engine, and he had experience on his side, as it wasn't quite the first time he made a game of this type. If you look at older posts, you'll also see that he had a ton of other assets he didn't bother to include in the game (not sure why, it's not like he has a publisher urging him to release the game on a specific date), so he had plenty done by himself.
My point, is that if he even had 5 minutes of time, even while eating his morning toast or whatever, he could have posted a few sentences once a month. For comparison, one of my friends works fulltime 60+ hours a week, yet he still manages to text me once a week. It's just something you can't really ignore this day and age, when you open yourself to the public like that.
If it wasn't obvious, I'm not shitting on Grimhelm, I love his game, and I've put in my fair share of hours with my map to help the community enjoy it too. However, the lack of information he relates to his fans is the clear reason as to why he isn't more widely known amongst our humble perverted community, as with creators like Creambee or WASHA. I've been wanting to do a Patreon of my own, but I don't think I could keep up with the social demand and monthly updates like most of those people do, so Kudos to them on that.
I'm just saying, that Grimhelm could have earned thousands of dollars, instead of hundreds of dollars, simply by maintaining his social status. And increase his confidence as a creator by extension too, because if you follow him enough, you'll notice that he's worried about the quality of his work, which is probably another reason why he worked on the game so infrequently.
There has always been a lack of communications between game companies and the player base. One thing I like about patreon and a small group of staff, or even just one developer is that they communicate often like on discord or patreon. They even take notes, and apply patches or updates we suggest.
Its true that Grimhelm hardly updates us. His last post was on May 26th on his patreon. Not a word ever since about his upcoming game. Even in the past he just surprise us with a new version and then there is the "im not dead" post on his blog xD
Perhaps there is a reason. Maybe he's actually being bothered by people and just decided to work on his game at his own pace and just want us to know he's still working on it by posting ever x months. I dunno.....