Hi all,
I was going to reply to each comment but the majortiy of them are copy/paste so it'll be easier to reply to them in one post.
1. (Reason I had to abandon RIC)
When my page was put under review last year it wasn't due to patreons crack down on "incest" content.
At this time they were still "semi-okay" with it.
It was due to the fact that the sister in the game looked underage and her actions / dialog enhanced it.
They classed her as a "minor".
For those that do not wish to take the time to read through the RIC thread which to be honest, there's a lot of pages so I understand why :
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Ps.
For those unaware Patreon is actually okay with incest content.
It's paypal that is not.
They're the ones forcing Patreon to implement the new rules otherwise they would have stopped them from using their services for payments.
Considering the majority of payments made on Patreon is through Paypal, this had to be done.
Check Paypal's TOS for details.
2. (New project - Private Community)
I wanted to do something different, and work with a new image engine.
It wasn't until Serveral updates into Private Community that I relieased just how long rendering images in Daz3d takes.
"Yes I could pump out an image in 5 mins but they look like this :
Instead of this :
I was surpised at just how little content I was being able to get into each update for Private Community.
"The only reason being how long it was taking to render images, let alone re-rendering the ones with mistakes"
I used to pride myself on packing a bunch of new content into each one of my updates when I was working on RIC so it
was very disheartening "I think that's the correct word to use" for me to not be able to do that with Private Community.
After making a post apologising to all my supporters for lack of content going into each update and explaining the reason why I got Private Message from one of my Patreons suggesting that while I'm waiting for the 2-3hour images to render would it would be possible for me to do re-make of RIC.
After giving it some thought I dusted off my old computer system and started making a "Little Demo" of RIA while I was waiting for one of the images to render.
Within 3 hours I managed to get the entire UI, intro and game mechanis implemented along with the 7AM events.
"I forgot just how easy it was to make content with HSS than it was with Daz3d"
It was at this point I made the annoucment to my supporters that I was going to work on a RIC remake in the
"Spare Time" I had while waiting for images for Private Community to render.
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3. (RIA will be removed from Patreon like RIC?)
Before I made the announcement to my supporters I contacted Patreons Trust and Safty team and was lucky enough to speak to the same person I had last time regarding RIC.
I stated that I wanted to do a remake of RIC and sent him/her images of the characters.
I showed her/him the difference between the younger looking character and stated that she would be going to "college" and that her dialog/actions would resemble someone a little more mature than the last game.
He/She gave me the Okay but suggested that I don't post any portrait pictures of the models / faces as some people make mistake her for a minor and could result in my page being reported which would result in a review again if they receivedenough of them just like any of page on patreon.
"Not that it would be a problem as my page would be given the okay after the review but it's mainly to avoid the "Down Time"
So as long as I keep within patreons TOS he/she didn't see any problems with this project.
4. (RIA will be the same as RIC?)
RIA will be very similar to RIC as it's a remake but some Events,Dialog and game mechanics will be different.
All the images / Animations will be new, none of the old media will be used.
After speaking with some of my patreons they wanted it to feel like RIC but with some new content / events lines.
This way it's still the same but with a new fresh feel / difference.
The major change will be the "S" character as her dialog/personality will need to be a little more "mature" than the old.
5. (You're just "milking "your Patreons for more money!)
I can understand that it may come across this way, especially as RIA is currently only exclusive to my $10 Patreons.
The exclusive $10+ Patreon releases are only the development stage builds.
What I mean by this is :
The release that's posted right now is a "Stage Build" it's got the majority of content for the characters level 1 corruption but not all of it as it's still missing the (spy-cams), (weekend events) + (6PM Dinner event)
These will be added in the next update.
The next update will be the "Finished level 1 Corruption Build" which again, will be released to my $10 supporters first but will then be released to everyone else :
Now I'll be 100% honest :
The decision to release the "Stage Builds" earlier for $10+ patreons is to hopefully increase the pages "My" financial situation.
This is my only sorce of income and I need to support myself while I'm doing this as well as to help improve development so hopefully later down the line I'll have enough finical support that I can pay someone to help with the projectes.
But it's also to give my higher teir supporters something extra, an added bonus.
All of my supporters will end up with the game builds eventually, some just receive it earlier than others.
If I was only going to release every RIA build for $10+ only then yes, I would be milking my patreons.
But I wouldn't do that because any amount pledged to me I'm grateful for and I believe anyone pledging to me should end up with the game build eventually.
6. (RPGMV Again.. really....)
Yes really, It's the engine I'm used to and prefer to use.
It's as simple as that, you'll either play the game or you won't, that's your decision.
I've done my best to make the gameplay unlike any other RPGMV game and more like a ren'py game to accommodate the people that hate the "Pixel people walking around a map"
7. (Current Content?)
- Currently only the Corruption level 1 events are in this build.
The : (spy-cams), (weekend events) + (6PM Dinner event)
These will come in the next update.
"The 6PM Dinner event will be how you increase the corruption level of the characters"
- Any Nudity yet ?
There is some yes.
- Any sex yet ?
No, it's the first build and won't be any of a couple of months.
" If you're new to my work then you should know one thing :
" I don't develop games that after 5 mins of gameplay you're able to have sex with every character.
" You'll need to play one of the many other amazing games out there for this.
8. (The File Size is so large!!!)
This is a "Stage Build", it's not a publicly released build.
The publicly released build will come in 2 versions, HQ Images or the LQ compressed images.
- Thanks to
@Pepé Le Pew
-Boom