Thank you for a wonderful first year! 1.16.21

Hello delightful patrons,

Sorry for the delay in this update. We've been working away at Episode 2 while making new and exciting progress elsewhere. Let us regale you!

- Episode one: Here you are! https://youtu.be/_TuChqontp0

As our supporters, we wanted to offer early access to our first episode for anyone who may have missed the cast and Patron premiere on Twitch. We hope you enjoy, and thank you for helping us overcome challenges along the way. Your support made it possible for us to replace hardrives that crashed on us, commission a music score when our first guy fell through, and give additional compensation to our amazing voice actors as a thanks for their wonderful work. Thanks for making that possible!

- Twitch: We're now set up to stream! Times will likely be random until we figure out the flow, but it will result in more behind-the-scenes footage and opportunities to ask us about the show or just chat in general: https://www.twitch.tv/thewestpatch

- The Book: has taken a strong new direction with our most recent editing pass, and we're more excited than ever to get it done and sent to those of you generous enough to be in the book tiers. Animation is our priority, but we're working away on it. One of our goals in our work flow is to avoid burn out, and splitting the art and animation between the two of us along with the book spreads us a little thin, but that doesn't mean it won't be in your hands eventually as a lovingly made token of thanks. Since the second book is planned to release with episode 4, we're building our writing timeline around that.

- Episode 2: With a full minute of animation nearly done, we're racing onward with shots more ambitious than before on a very optimistic March release schedule.

- Premiere Party: With a bot system set up on Twitch, we're ready for the game key giveaways to all who participate, and our premiere partners have given us a soft release date of either Feb. 6th or Feb 13th! While you have early access, we hope you'll still join us for the live release of our first episode and their second, with some free games and fun to boot.

So much to say, and so much more work to be done. Thanks again to all of you for supporting us before we even had any animation to show for it. We appreciate it more than you know, and will start updating more regularly again so we can say that more often. Hop over to our YouTube channel for a new video giving a rundown on our year, and stay tuned for more!

See you next time!