Honestly, just because of your interaction on here and knowing there's someone attempting to manage this project, I'm going to start throwing your patreon some money. I think the artwork in this game is solid, I've just been holding out because progress hasn't been fast enough to justify $5/mo. It was in the category of something I'd pay for as a finished product, but not worth a monthly contribution. Keep on with the progress, keep us informed, and I'll keep tipping.
Also, those previous monthly reports that have gone out in English/Russian are garbage fluff. I know they're just newsletters, but they haven't inspired me to open my wallet once. Talk about the recent progress and current goals for the next build.
I'll be writing the news, you won't get fluff, you can ask details about tasks and I will try to provide as much information without spoilers as I can. There's certain mechanics I really don't want to spoil. I will be adding some minigames and getting the stats together to make the game flow. The actual content will come towards the 0.3b or 0.3f, I wouldn't expect a lot out of 0.3a because I know for a fact we have a lot of clean up to do to make my roadmap happen. We are getting more help polishing up the small stuff. I want to get around to simplifying a couple of things, explaining other parts better and making the game manageable from the players perspective to not have to constantly ask for help (there will always be those that need assistance).
I appreciate the feedback, I want to get to a point where there's a tracker on tasks as well, art/code/writing so people know what's going on.
Someone asked the main hold back... just realize how much I can communicate about what's going on right now. Because there is both a short and long term plan, there are now assigned tasks, there is tracking on tasks, and overall everything is now going to be managed in a manner where no one person holds us up.
Oh man, how about all those russian mobsters in the development team forego their part of the share for one month and you pay all 5k to the artist?
Generally talking money ends badly, no one cares as we are the ones taking the money, so any argument we give would be shit. But let me say that moving money across borders incurs a lot of costs and Russian laws suck.