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Good idea! Only thing is we did this when we were art and games. Problem was you didn't see the complaints (no f95 back then), we were losing people because their vote didn't win ("this is rigged, I don't want to support WW content, only Korra"). We were trying to build a fan base that loved SR7 not the characters he drew. What I will say is I will revisit this with SR7 and see if we can come up with an idea. If we do this the resources (funding) will probably go into our other ventures (still h-games) rather than SU (just being transparent).
Believe it or not some people still want to fund you cause they like you and want to see you succeed. We have 17 active $20.00 patrons, and 5 active $50.00 patrons.
Really we should be on a if the update is finished we release it cycle, and we may just go that route eventually.
This man knows!
We grew 100 patrons in the previous two months. That is 5% growth if we do that for the whole year (chances are higher that we do better) puts us at ~30% growth over the year.
We won't add anymore resources to SU, in fact right now. But the way our project is set up and the way it is worked on would require months of full-time work in order for us to efficiently add another team member to the project. We are building our internal development currently and would add more resources to that project/s. This is why any hires we have done are on the other dev team, eventually SR7 will leave SU to the wild and will move over to that team. At that point we hope to have had sufficient time to build our team and it's processes. Remember we are new at this shit and working with very little funding (meaning full time contractors need competitive wages something we cant afford). Any and all hires at this point are mere hobbyists, and split their time with other income generating things (ie Locke is an owner of a small marketing firm, Newman has his project and many freelance projects he works on).
You can only have it one of two ways:
option 1: We release all content unfinished scenes and all, and no bug testing so you can hopefully see what was all worked on in the month
option 2: We bug test and remove content that cannot be fixed/finished in time add that content to the next month cycle.
Exactly this, SR7 has designed this project so that when we release it to all you (Source files) you can easily add to it for an eternity. SU silver/gold anyone?
There is a number you have that I seriously don't. How much content is expected by you a month? What constitutes a months worth of work? I have asked this question literally 100x now and never once got a real answer.
The patrons got lots out of it, in fact the builds are much bigger. Last build was 3 months build combined in size.
No transparency? You don't go to SR7's streams I guess. The guy will literally tell you what is happening. One of our mods has come here and told you what is going on. We have never missed a release even due to sickness (we released then as well).
Ok let me do this for you! I will list the size of every update from Nov till now. Then we will see the size increase overall. Ok let's start
Oct 773 mb
Nov 793 mb (+20 mb)
Jan 818 mb (+ 25 mb)
Mar 879 mb (+ 61 mb)
One of these builds is not like the other...Can you guess which one? I will help you March was the first bi-monthly update and it is literally 1.35x larger than the previous updates...combined.
Literally the reason this build is a little small is he was doing animations for original characters. I will do you all a favor and share the content which was created during this two months cycle, but will NOT ALL BE IMPLEMENTED as some animations are not finished (art work is done).
3 Backgrounds
Blackfire content
- Leash Scenes
Harley content
- New Portraits
- Harleen Quinzel Intro
- Harleen Quinzel costume
- Leash Scenes
Killer Frost content
- Henchwomen Lesbian Scenes
- Dance Scenes
- Leash Scenes
Poison Ivy content
- Poison Ivy/Batgirl Bordello Scene
- Prison Henchwoman Lesbian Scenes
- Sex Scene
- Anal Scene
- Cumshot Scenes
- Leash Scenes
Raven content
- Handjob Scene
- Blowjob Scene
- Sex Scene
- Anal Scene
- Cumshot Scenes
- Leash Scenes
Terra content
- Leash Scenes
So, I have just stopped being a lurker, out of this well thought, and nice answer.
First,
thank you, and extend my congratulations to the other members of the team. You guys do a great work, which is to enterprise a brand new application into the wild, and you are doing a fine good job out of it.
That being said, I'm a developer (in fact, the CEO of a small business involving, among other things, development of apps for clients), and I
think --I may be very wrong, of course-- you need a bit of help on the organization and management area.
You see, I want you to succeed. And continue succeeding. I have discussed you and your app with my colleagues, and out of the excellent art and really funny dialogues (Miss Martian and Raven are favourites of mine: it's hard to stay
hard if you giggle like a schoolgirl every few seconds, though), we believe you are the representatives of a new counter-culture movement, spreading --slow, but sure-- through the overall development scene. Your actions influence far more than you know.
Therefore, perhaps you would like to discuss the use of tools like Jira, Confluence, methodologies like Kanban, automation and deployment cycles, interface design and automation, and so on: I'm sure you know all of them (and maybe even use them more than we do), so I do not want to sound pedantic at all. It's just friendly discussion, to help you develop faster, better, harder (Daft Punk fan here). We have these chats among colleagues all day, and it's always for the better.
But if not, still thank you: as a humble dev, I fully understand your issues and difficulties.