-Joeb-
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I love your stuff man, keep up the good work!
Hey Ace, I've read your post about divorce. As a man who went through a divorce myself you have my support. Don't know much about your situation, but I can tell you that life gets better after. Keep doing what you love, worry only about yourself, and you'll be in a better place in no time.
GrompotGino
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Someone once told me that a man wears 3 rings. First the engagement ring then the wedding ring and finally the suffering. All the best Ace. Life gets better and holds many surprises even if its not evident at first. There is always tomorrow. Just remember this. A man needs 4 things from a woman. 1 - He needs a woman that loves him, 2 - He needs a woman that is great in bed, 3 - He needs a woman that challenges him and finally 4 - He needs those 3 women not to know each other
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First, I'll say I've always thought Ace is extremely talented and has crazy potential, and I'm sorry that he's going through tough times. Hope you figure out what you need to, so that you can get back to doing the work that you love.
However, I find it suspicious as hell that all this is coming out right after a Kickstarter fund, one that succeeded in reaching its goal of $10,000. So Ace raised that much for a game that now seems like he doesn't really have the time to work on? Where did that money go? It makes it seem that money likely went toward paying his personal bills, rather than be invested in the game. In essence, that is running a kickstarter campaign in bad faith with potential donors. It looks like a quick cash grab.
Devs just need to be transparent about such things. If you know you can't work on the game for a while because life has thrown you some hurdles, as least make that explicit to potential donors when asking for their support. Not only would doing so be more transparent and honest, but also you might find even more people are willing to donate, out of sympathy.
The money is going toward escape. I need money for assets and to keep up my website and to get paid for the work. Yes, some of it is going to "personal" things like rent, food, utilities. It's kind of hard to work on a game when I can't pay the electric bill... I am working hard on the game, my patreon, and my website. Everyone who has pledge to that has seen all the work I have put into Escape since the completion of the kickstarter.
Thanks for your response, and I totally respect it. I must have misread a few comments and got the wrong impression. It sounded like you stopped working indefinitely after the completion of the Kickstarter campaign, because of life stuff.
And don't get me wrong about my previous post. I think it's totally okay for Kickstarter money, or patreon money, to go toward living expenses. Heck, I would actually prefer that. I would rather donate knowing that my donation would serve the purpose of providing you more time to sit down and focus on the game, whether that be in paying the bills, buying groceries, taking time off work, etc. I wrote my previous post under the false assumption that you had been using the money to pay for personal stuff--but had stopped working on the game entirely. That you're using the money to pay for personal stuff so that you can work is entirely cool.
Truth be told, I did not donate to your Kickstarter because I didn't agree with the way you intended to invest the money. If I remember correctly, you had allotted quite a large portion of the money to voice acting, when I thought what would serve you better was to simply sit down and crank out updates. In other words, I thought the money might have been better to invest in maybe hiring someone temporarily to help you program the game faster, or even using more money to pay for life expenses. Your talent is already there, and I don't think you need all these crazy bells and whistles. (I'm speaking only to the voice acting, not the necessary assets like clothing, etc.) Just more frequent updates. Why? Because I'd argue that frequent updates show potential patrons that you can be relied on. Devs who produce a good update or two and then disappear are a dime a dozen in this industry. I'm sure they all mean well...
However, had I known you simply needed spending money to get things rolling again, I would have likely donated. I'd say it's just critical to be transparent up front. It's just a weird look when "life issues" suddenly crop up for a developer after a successful Kickstarter campaign, forcing the development process to slow or stop altogether, when it seemed the developer was all gung-ho! only weeks before, ready to work.
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Mr.Cailiflower
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Bro, let it go. The game will never finish, the author burnt out obviously.
Seems like version 4.0 is almost done, but take that with a grain of salt. The dev has been testing for about a month. And again, the dev is begging for more money in his discord. $300 for monthly bills. I'm sorry but this dev begs way too much. I'm a former patron and I'm gonna stay that way for awhile. I understand the dev is going through a divorce, but what happened to the $10k he got for his kickstarter? He just begs and begs, and people can only be so generous.
This game will finish, and I am experiencing burnout... Life's tough right now... but I am making progress.
I am begging right now... I know it's pathetic, but I am really trying everything I can to just stay afloat right now. I am paying for my mortgage (where I am not living) rent for my own place, utilities for both. I need to keep my kids fed and pay mine and my exes lawyer fees... This divorce is getting dragged out... I need it to finalize so I can sell the house and stop paying all this shit. It sucks, I have been selling almost all my personal things I have on fb marketplace. It sucks. Am I "begging" for money, sure. but I literally don't know what else to do. I am working 2 side jobs on top of my main job. Plus trying to do this. it sucks hard. And everyone has been super generous. And I feel like shit for asking so much. so... yeah... it is what it is...
srfsmrf_
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Ace_X That's tough man, good luck / take care, try to stay healthy (and sane I suppose). I'd say be real with what you can offer your patrons (for now) - reading your story I'd have a hard time delivering I think, a man (person) needs his rest (the sanity part) as well right. From what I read it I get the impression it's kinda (too) much..?
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Impermiable
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I think everyone have their own problems. And I am not saying this is a right or wrong. Just look at what he did in the past, everything seems great. And what he is trying to do now, in this hard time, I think he want to do it even better, ignore the fact that he just went through difficult things.
About the money, everyone need money to survive, I am not saying if he is asking too much or just a little but seem like he don't want to be this way.
So what I want to say is can we sympathize with each other a little more. None of us Has a smooth and trouble-free life, me and you neither. The same go for him. We just need to be a little more sympathetic.
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I understand your opinion. I'm usually very sympathetic but I got tired of the dev begging for money every month, when Ace was already making money from multiple revenue streams. Patreon, subscriptions to the separate website Ace owns, and the 10k made from the kickstarter. On a better note, it seems that Ace got a new job, and the money problems won't be as transparent.