Journeying Back Home Tomorrow

Hello all you fluffy rascals! Just want to start with a quick hello to all our new patrons who have joined in the last few weeks. and extend a thanks both to old and new for your support! 

As the title suggests, my travel's around the world are coming to and end today and I start my (48 hours. urgh) travels back home. It was so fantastic to catch up with Lalana and Nebula who I'm sure you're familiar with, but also Jojo and Laven who have been in some shoots before or helped in the background.

And it was so fantastic to meet some of you guys at MFF!

2023 is going to be a big year, all the learned experience both inside and out of Second Life/producing content will come to a point this year! I've had plenty of time to ponder and note and wonder about the year ahead, and the pieces are starting to come together! And I'm so glad that each of you are here to join me on that journey!

Here is a quick overview of the pipeline of content (subject to change, but this year's big motif is to plan more ahead, and communicate both with you guys and my team more about projects!)

- Erotic Short Films
Our bread and butter, 2022 saw an increase in quality but our pipeline of collaberation and production ground to a halt, our ambitious grew beyond our capabilities, but with that experience under our belt I'll be working in the early months formalizing this process, to both bring higher quality but more frequent releases! E.g. I'll be looking at setting up my own foley recording box to bring the good sounds to our productions, while improved planning ahead will give our VAs ample time to connect up with deadlines. Expected Delivery - Late March (Followed by monthly releases). We've got so many fantastic ideas rearing to go, look out for future polls (Late Feb) to have your say on what we might work on first!

- Erotica + Images
As mentioned, a long term dream has been to expand some of our offerings beyond SL Machinima, or working with things that compliment the kind of content we produce. One of those ideas has always been to try publish erotica, and we hope to see this project fire off this year. I've already drafted up several concepts for stories focussed around the cast of CatScratch (Plus some of our Rule 34 catelog) to compliment our releases! And who knows, maybe popular stories will make their way to film (Kind of the manga/VN to anime pipeline huh?) Expected Delivery - Mid April (Followed by bimonthly releases)

- Game Dev/Visual Novel
Both as a personal passion project, and as a complimentary narrative tool, I'd love to produce some kind of player controlled erotic adventure. featuring the cast of CatScratch. We saw some early early concepts last year. but I hope to deliver an alpha build/early concept this year! If it proves successful I'd look into recruiting more help into producing the next build. Expected Delivery - Late June

- Merch!
A bunch of merch opportunites presented themselves last year, but with the awkward timing of the year wrapping up we've postposted most to this year. Plus I got a chance to travel around and show off some samples of our body pillows to many of you and others on the team on CatScratch! We've also touched base with a New Zealand based erotic sculpture company, with some early collaberations in mind, but might develop into something more interesting! Anyone keen on "The Deirdre" perhaps? ;3 We also had a Lalana figure project go on a quick pause. that we hope to reveal sometime in the coming months.
Body Pillows - Early April
Figurine - Early May
CatScratch Silicone Sculptures? - Late 2023

- Social Media Rebuild
With the incredibly rocky foundations on Twitter last year, we've absolutely been thinking about our plan Bs, and building a new social media presense across different platforms, and reworking some out existing ones. Expect another Discord restructure, and maybe our content to pop up on some other platforms! Expected Delivery - Mid April

So that's all for now. Of course all these projects will be littered with our usual content. both from myself and the rest of our team. Speaking of pipelines we'll also be looking at what kind of posts and how they'll be delivered here on Patreon, to better serve our time. and your enjoyment! One huge lens I have focussed on is the Scholar tier. so I hope to bring some spice to that tier!

So please, if you have any requests, or feedback, I'd love to discuss them below! 

Until next time, very soon, see you all again! Be well! Stay safe!

- Pancake