thedaili

State of the Union - Halfway Down the Line

Added 2020-03-30 16:22:34 +0000 UTC

So, busy month, crazy times. Crazier to come....you might want to pull up a chair for this one, it's long and heavy (haha no innuendo intended.) I'll put a tl;dr at the bottom to look up your relevant tier.

Anyway, to start...

Thrallworks

We released the Trust Route at the start of this month and I've started planning out the Guilt Route. Ideally I want to make each route of equal length and in equal format for the demo's sake; to that end I'm hoping to get a HTML text-only version done around late-april for the $10 to play with a full version for June- along with opening up the Trust Route to $5 people in May.

We're kinda getting into material that makes my heart a-beat something pallid though, so it may take a little time.

Thrallopedia's still a goer, and I aim to give $5 people a vote on a) if a thrall or drone being showcased in the overview- a character poll, or b) If it is another subject, then I'll offer a choice on what subject you want. I try and do these biweekly, so at any rate I'll poll it up probably on the Thursday every other week, to be done that weekend.

Speaking of other stuff that takes time...

Volition

Detailed roughs are underway, working on three at a time ($5's, check your post to see such a rough!) The general idea I had was that I'd collate them all then provide a full download to sell on gumroad, then every week release one of the pages out for free publicly (with $1 peeps getting higher res images and a release of 2 pages per week) and reduce the gumroad price by 50p per public page released until the whole comic is free for download.

In addition there'd be a HD special that'll have some additional bonus roughs for flavour...and I think another page on top of those released publicly and a short story of around 3,000 words, plus every image being in higher def, and this'll be around £5 more than the base.

As I intend every patron-level of mine to have an equivalent discount code, this will mean that eventually $5 peeps will be able to download this for free, (with the $10 patrons getting a 10 week head start on you).

However, I do know how much of a drag it can be to wait months for something and I already have one project that takes months to update, so for Volition I'd like something a little more consistent. So on the 28th of each month I'll release at $5 whatever progress has been made, both completed pages and lines for the next.

What else then?

Side Images....and Stories?

Ah, you're liking those Azula images eh? Good! More are coming. Along with stories! These will be for every level of patron, not just the privledged few, naturally with $2 people getting higher res. stuff.

I would like to run a weekly/fortnightly game much like An Ambassador's Dilemma again for $2+ people, but perhaps a little more coherent, with clearer rules. Ideally on its own website...though that's a far dream, as when would I have time to make it? Soon, probably! At least if...

Commissions

I'll be making commission guidlines for both general commissions, and more importantly Order Forms for Thrallworks over this coming month.

The idea is that every month, I'll have a certain amount of commission slots available- probably 5 slots, as well as 2 pre-booked.

The idea is the form will be updated each month and downloadable for free (likely as a pdf), with different discounts and quirks to them based on which universe is 'ripe' that month or not, what thrall models are in vogue, all of that.

These you then send to my email, tdl_commissions@yahoo.com where you'll recieve a 'Harvest evaluation' response within 48 hours to see whether the target is viable, whether slots are available, etc.

I'll try and keep an up to date list on available slots and there will be options to pay a little to pre-book a slot for the following month- this way allowing for multiple choices on a single form.

Seems like you want to do a lot!

Well, the catch is that I may as well do this now, as I honestly don't know if this is the kinda thing I want to be spending my whole adult life on.

Run the numbers; we're a year since the game announcement and we're probably another 4/5 months from just the demo being done. That tells me it'd probably be another year to finish off another stage of L-D19's instruction. There are 4 stages plus an evaluation, so we'll say 5. Then- in an ideal world- I'd have another 3 girls on top of her. So including orientation, that's...18 stages. And each girl would have 3 models- including Ty Lee. So that's virtually 60 stages. So 71 years in total to finish the game as I originally envisioned it. Even if we take into account reuseable assets and slash the time in half, that's still around 35 years for ol' TDL to be plugging away at this.

And smutwork is lonely if you're not actually interested in diving deep into the kink community's in-person social spheres like me. A lot of shutting yourself in your room with your tablet. So we'll just see how the year goes. I'm adamant to finish what I'd consider a minimally complete Thrallworks game if I can, if the demo provides enough interest, but if there doesn't seem to be a call for it, probably a good idea to wrap up there.

Not that I'll finish doing smut entirely, but...well. When you get to my age you feel time getting away from you, and suddenly the window starts to close on the stuff you need or want to do. And I'm not even that old!