Welcome + Various Bits and Bobs

Okay, first up, welcome to new patrons! Thanks for joining! There's enough stuff going on with the patreon these days that I figured I probably ought to do the occasional 'welcome' post. And I've also just got some bits and bobs of updates to cover as well. 

First off, for anyone new to my patreon, the most important place you can go is to the About section! It's SUPER frustrating to me that Patreon moved the landing page/overview for all patreon pages without asking us. Which means that the detailed listing of rewards and links and such that I used to maintain in the Overview, where it was easily found, is now stuck in the "About Novus" section. It's located at the bottom of the "My Membership" tab, which is super out of the way and annoying >_<. Nevertheless, it's usually the best way for new members to find everything, as it lists all of my games AND I try to keep the list of rewards-by-tier at the top of it fairly updated. I don't always manage to remember to update everything, but it's the best place to start!

Of particular note, however, beyond telling you simply to go there, is the Old Reward Archive, which contains a lot of short stories and such that have been used as rewards over the years. There are also always two Story Rewards exclusive to $5+ patrons, as well, which are currently both new parts for Transformation Estate. Additionally, if you came here for Chastity Quest, you might be confused what the attached image is for :-p. I publish two games at any given time! Having just recently completely The Dungeon of Lewdity, I am now working on Haven's Port. Haven's Port so far only has a Teaser Release, but will be getting it's first full build this month!

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Now, with that welcome out of the way, on to some details! First, obviously given the attached render, I've gotten back to work on Haven's Port. I've purchased another batch of assets, which should be the last I need for Build 1. While the attached render isn't as glamorous as the scenic shots I've been showing so far...it's not supposed to be :-p. One of the early 'jobs' you can do in Haven's Port is working at the Dockside Glory Hole, which is featured above. I've got one other render done for it as well, with a third set to run when I crash to some sleep in a bit here. Though I've only just realized looking at the render in the post that I don't like the overhead lights being there -_-. Thankfully, I believe I can edit them out without having to re-render the scene.

Second, and related to the first, I'm sure those of you who have been around for a bit are wondering if the Polls that I had for $5+ people everyone month, regarding DoL content, are going to be replaced by something. The answer is, yes! I've only mentioned this in passing up until now, because I wasn't sure of the exact details, but after Build 1 of Haven's Port releases, I'll be running a similar poll every month for Haven's Port. What you will have the chance to vote on will likely change from Build to Build, with one of the first ones being if you want to see more Jobs/Events around town added first, or if you want to see the ability to advance through the reputation levels added fairly early. But, more on that later this month, after I've made a few posts about both options :-p. 

Third! I've made an update to the Patreon's goals. Those of you who actually read all my verbose updates should be aware that, having lost some of my day-job work due to the covid-19 pandemic, I decided to go ahead and take the plunge on trying to develop more or less full time. I was in a good position to do so...so I decided to try to make it a positive thing. Indeed, that's why the more ambitious Haven's Port project was chosen over a second DoL game when the voting ran a dead heat between them. 

In reflection of this, I needed to remove on of the goals that was focused on going full-time, and replace it with something else. As it happens, that something else has become readily obvious as I do renders for Haven's Port. A little over a year ago my Desktop and Laptop PC died at pretty much the same time...and so I replaced both with a high-end gaming laptop that has served quite well so far. However, it's struggling somewhat with rendering. Mostly due to heat buildup over long render times. As such, I've modified the previous $1500 goal to be a $1000 goal, with the intention of using a big monthly chunk of that to build up parts for a true rendering rig. Assuming, of course, that we ever get there...

Whew! This post has been SUPER long-winded, sorry about that! The last thing I wanted to address is a small request. I'm trying to increase my exposure, now that I'm moving to full-time development, and IF any of you have reddit or TFgames accounts, you can really help me out by going over to throw on some upvotes, likes, comments or reviews! I...honestly hate shilling myself, but I know that I should be doing this sort of thing. So, if you're willing, there are Reddit posts for Chastity Quest on adult game subreddits HERE and HERE. And the game has a page over at TFGames as well! Any help at all in spreading word about the game...or any of my other games, is deeply appreciated :-)! This, frankly is the part of running a patreon that I really suck at :-(.