Promotion Plans and Patreon Tiers

I really dislike engaging in marketing, but it’s an essential part nevertheless. I’ve long planned to rethink what I’m doing for promotion and the bonuses I offer to subscribers. Today, I’ve set aside time for this and want to share the conclusions I've arrived at.

Initially, I revisited what other developers offer. Generally, I didn’t see anything new. For those whose pages I’ve reviewed, the scheme is standard – wallpapers, voting, development status. Essentially, it's the same thing I do, but I think I can do it more effectively if I have a clear schedule. So, I made a table in Excel outlining what I will post and when. Here's the plan:

For those who merely follow my page but are not patrons, I will be posting development status updates every first week of the month. I believe this category comprises those interested in my game but can't support me monthly. It will be convenient for them to understand at which stage the development is and when to expect the next chapter.

The $1 subscription, frankly, brings me almost no financial benefit. There are constant commissions which take a very large part of this dollar, and in reality, I almost get nothing here. (But I love that the number of Patrons is going up:) Nonetheless, I think this category includes those who cannot support me every month but are still very interested in the game. I can’t provide big bonuses, but you will have complete information about the development status. Every third week of the month, I will post an additional update on the status of the new chapter's development.

$5 subscription. You will continue to have access to the latest version of the game, plus two wallpapers a month. Wallpapers will be from in-game renders (every second week of the month, wallpapers may be from the released chapter or still in development) and from unique renders (every fourth week of the month), created based on voting (more on this later). Also, every second week of the month, I will post preview renders from the new chapter.

$10 subscription. As before, you will have early access to the game, but I think I want to provide access simultaneously with the $15 level. The difference is that you will have the standard version, while $15 will have a version with walkthrough and QHD resolution. And I will try to ensure that the release date for you falls on a Friday in the future. Every second week I will also post one animation (if they are already ready). Plus, voting, I will write about it separately below.

$15 everything remains as before + voting, I will write about it separately below.

$25 everything as before, i.e., the earliest access to With Eyes Closed, access to Going Rogue, mentioning in in-game credits + voting, I will write about it separately below.

Regarding the voting, I want to organize it as well so that I have a specific schedule for when I conduct them. I decided that we will have regular voting on monthly unique wallpapers. In the first week of the month, you will choose which of the girls will participate. In the second week, you'll decide the theme (yes, now the wallpapers will be created not only on the theme of the game, but also on any other - fantasy, sci-fi, etc.) In the third week, you will decide whether it will be an SFW or NSFW theme. And I will use the common approach of distributing weight by support levels. That is, three votes on the same topic will be posted simultaneously for $10, $15, and $25. And then I will tally the results taking into account that the choice of $10 counts as one vote, $15 as two, and $25 as three.

Voting on other topics, such as clothing or the appearance of secondary characters will be held, but without a definite schedule and may affect different support levels, depending on how this voting will affect the final version of the game. But in any case, such votes will not be frequent, not every month.

That's all regarding the support levels.

Regarding promotion.

No matter how good a game is, there's no use if nobody knows about it. And although I don't like it, I need to advertise. And I've noticed a very good effect from cross-promotion posts. Therefore, I plan to post such posts with other developers every two weeks now. Ideally, of course, I would like to recommend only those games that I play myself, but unfortunately, I have very little free time, and I can't allocate 5+ hours every week to find a suitable game for cross-promotion. Plus, there are many other factors; the game creator must be interested in joint promotion. So I will, of course, try to choose games similar to mine, but I can’t guarantee it. I hope you understand.

Regarding the development of the next chapter.

For the next week, I will be planning the next chapter. I still want to shorten the time between updates, make them shorter. I don’t know yet how much this will work out, but I’ll try to divide the plot in such a way that it will be possible to release updates sooner. And I want to tweak the first chapter a bit. Before releasing the second chapter, I went through the whole game again. Thoroughly, reading the text and analyzing impressions. And it seemed to me that there was too little sex. Not even in a direct sense, but that there are few hot descriptions of what is happening. I would like to add some arousing thoughts or descriptions. Unfortunately, this is not something that can just be planned and done, after all, it's creative work, but I would really like to add this. It seems to me that this is what the first chapter lacks. I’ll try to do something about it.

P.S. Reminding you that you can subscribe for a year with a discount ;)