Today, I worked on Elaine's story a bit, finished up enemyspawns with jungle's help, and progressed this yet to be animated scene.
I used to sell chocolate easter bunnies for a school fundraiser. idk, I just thought saying that here would uh, freak you out.
I used to eat chocolate Easter bunnies......but after this, I think those days are over.
ReplyDeleteI still eat em, and will continue too,
ReplyDeleteI am pretty ignorant when it comes to fundraising, but is there a reason why you haven't gone the Patreon route? I mean shit like Breed Season makes thousands per week and churns our very little content. Not saying we want you to sell out, but it looks like an easy way to get support.
ReplyDeleteMy response from a while back.
DeleteThere are two big reasons I won't put the game on Patreon:
1) Their business model is incompatible with mine. Patreon has the customer billed every month to support an artist that ideally puts up art about a few times a month. Meanwhile, at HC HQ, after seven years I've only got three games, so I'm not sure what to give the customer every month. I *could* change my business model by making smaller games every month, but then they really wouldn't be big ambitious AD games anymore.
2) Their policy on adult content means that my content won't be indexed in their search. Offbeatr is an additional marketplace, so even if Offbeatr takes a cut of my profit, it's okay because they grant me a customer that would have never heard of me otherwise. If I host my game on Patreon, Patreon takes a cut and does not give me anything in return. That's because of their policy: Adult content isn't indexed in their search, so the only way to find my supposed patreon would be by googling "hentaicook patreon", and if you found me through google, you could sure as hell find me through hentaicook.com and forgo the whole middleman patreon tax.
The only point I could concede is that it may be possible that the consumer prefers Patreon's business model and wishes hentaicook games would adapt to it as well, but I'd sooner rather put a plain donation button on my website... and seeing as we're a 'for-profit' business (actual good samaritan intentions aside), that's not happening anytime soon either.
Here's my business prediction for the hentai marketplace: Hentai artists on Patreon will wisen up to the fact that Patreon is not really offering them anything other than a reputable place to perform transactions. Offbeatr may have exorbitant fees for adult content, but the fees are not much worse than Patreon. I think we'll begin to see a lot more hentai artists selling their stuff on Offbeatr, but that's dependent on whether or not Offbeatr can manage their own website better. I mean, I'm one to talk with the shitty personal geocities website over here, but I suspect Offbeatr is making a killing on profits; they owe it to themselves to invest in more hired hands and really give their website more polish. If they offered a similar business model to Patreon, what could Patreon possibly do besides reverse their adult content policy? Patreon doesn't want to become the next Kickstarter or Offbeatr... they just want to be "Patreon, the great marketplace for artists", so Patreon is probably willing to allow Offbeatr to dominate the hentai marketplace. Patreon's recent policy that shifts their website away from adult content further solidifies my prediction.
To all hentai artists on Patreon: Don't start your business in what's soon to be a ghost town. That, or be sketchy as fuck and avoid using pornographic keywords in your patreon page... Although if you already have one going, it's probably fine to stay there.
Whoahoahoa apparently they reversed their decision on indexing. Now there's a good chance that we *will* be on patreon, however we're certainly not going to cut up our product to meet their business model. We'll probably just put it on Patreon on the condition that we're allowed to put basically the single product on the page.
DeleteHope it works out for you, we'll lend our support either way.
DeleteAbsolutely. And I wouldn't say your content cadence is completely incompatible with Patreon's business model. The incremental story additions you did for AD2 were wonderful for keeping fans engaged months, even years, after the release of the base game. Personally, they led me to replay that game many more times than I would have otherwise. And I was always happy to see the improvements in your artwork with each update. Would be happy to be a patron.
DeleteAh, the closest that 90% of us will ever see as hentai in this game is this picture right here. Nice troll, Love.
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