Prince of Suburbia Patreon page and other Big News

Hey guys. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up that we have changed the URL for the page so that there isn't any confusion and/or if you need to update bookmarks if you have them.  I'm sure you've seen the bull logo and ViM Studios when running the game. That's the actual indie studio name we fall under.  

The new URL to access the Patreon page is this: https://www.patreon.com/ViMStudios

Other Big News:

I'll be quitting my full-time job most likely by the end of the year. My partner (Josselyn Stark) quit their job earlier this year to take the reins on helping to flesh out our little indie studio with another game. We believe we are going to make a great team to develop games together with our vision, creativity, and diligence.

We want you to be part of that process and will take your suggestions and feedback for future games going forward - including Prince of Suburbia of course. To hopefully alleviate any concerns, Prince of Suburbia development speed will not be hindered by developing other games. If anything, it will be sped up as I'll have more time to manage it than before. Polisummer is in charge of programming for it and we're still going to be working with ScarlettAnn & Auxiliaryout for the art + animations side of it.

We'll also be keeping tiers separate (Prince of Suburbia Tiers & New game tiers) so that you only support what you want to support. We'll create combo tiers for those who enjoy and wish to support both. For those curious, the reason we will not be creating a separate Patreon page for the new game is because Patreon does not allow creators to have multiple pages that are grandfathered in to the original donation-sharing % with Patreon. We would rather keep a larger percentage of the donations to support developing games.

My biggest frustration (and I'm sure one of yours too) is that generally speaking, the version updates for Prince of Suburbia come by very slowly. Ideally we would have an update every month or two. The reason the updates have come slowly is that we are only able to get ~1 illustration per week given how busy ScarlettAnn is. This is coupled with funding that does not allow for us to request her services more often. The silver lining here is that we have been able to get more animations from auxiliaryout which are pretty fucking amazing.

The benefit of working on a new game (which will be 3D Ren'Py) is that we can and will put out sizeable version updates every ~2 months with content sprinkled in on the months in-between as well. This will be because we are in control of the art production & animation production speed (only limiting factors will be rendering speeds/amount of rendering PCs/our own time). We plan on putting the first 1/4 of both games for free on Steam as a "DEMO" when they are polished enough to build this page and awareness of the games/studio. Ultimately, this will help us provide you with more content and higher quality games. Who knows, if things go as we hope, we'll eventually have enough Prince of Suburbia patronage to see if Scarlett can ramp up that illustration speed for us!

I'll be posting a teaser for the new game shortly. Thank you as always for your support.

-TheOmega & Josselyn Stark