Hey! I have something to tell you！

大家好，我是elec_bobo。

我想跟大家分享一下我的决定。

1.我决定从这个月底开始，暂时关闭我的Patreon赞助。

2.《圆屋RoundHouse》的’现在的alpha版本’以及‘后续的alpha版本’将会以免费的形式在twitter@elec_bobo公开。（正式版仍然需要以付费的方式购买，但是付费渠道还没有确定。）（具体更新alpha版本的时间以及版本的数量要视情况而定。）

3.十月份已经在Patreon赞助过我的赞助人们，我将会在《圆屋RoundHouse》正式版完成之后，以Patreon私信的方式直接发送给您。（大概时间可能会在2021年春天。）

接下来我想跟大家说明一下我这么做的理由。

首先，非常感谢大家在Patreon上赞助我，你们是我保证每个月工作量的动力之一。如果可以的话，我很愿意继续开放下去。但是我渐渐意识到这样的行为对你们和对我都出现了一些负面的影响。

《圆屋RH》对于我来说，需要尝试的东西太多，你们可以在alpha版本里看到，我在其中进行了很多新的尝试。这样的结果就是，我需要自己制作的素材量变得更加巨大了。由于工作量的上升，《圆屋RH》的每个版本更新内容量已经让我觉得不足以交换你们每个月的赞助了。想要保证内容量的前提下，我需要更多的时间。

同时，每个月的更新让我没有时间去进行更多的学习和提高。

由于我只有一个人，开放Patreon之后，每个月的更新让我花在磨练绘画技术和学习新软件上的时间几乎没有了。导致现在的绘画成果让我产生了自己的能力总是止步不前甚至还倒退了的危机感。另外，我想要尝试新的软件，想要发掘自己的新的可能性，我想去学习Blender，想去学习建模，我想要给自己多一点时间提升自己。所以我决定暂时暂停我的Patreon。

为什么要公开alpha版本。

这是出于现实情况的考虑。

尽管我已经做了一些已完成的作品，但是我的玩家数量依然很有限，我的收入来源也很有限（我是全职的游戏制作者）。于是我开始考虑如何让自己被更多人看到，如何让更多人成为我的玩家。所以在被更多人喜欢之前，我想要做一个分享者。

分享者的姿态让我可以更加从容地对待我的作品，我不再需要让它对得起赞助者们的赞助，而是只要表达我自己就好了。也许这样的作品，才能够给我带来更多的关注。这是我的猜测，而且我也打算用一段时间的实践，去证明或者证伪它。希望您能理解。

最后的说明。

1.后续的alpha版本可能暂时会没有英文版（但是正式版会有），因为我的googlecloud的试用期已经结束了，这意味着我以后使用google翻译，将会产生费用（这也是我打算暂停Patreon的原因之一）。所以我想要将这一部分的花销，放在正式版上。

2.我将会使用Patreon系统里的暂停计费功能，但是您最好手动取消一下对我的赞助，以免出现我没有预料到的意外支付。

感谢您的阅读。祝您生活愉快！

接下来的一段日子里，我们在twitter@elec_bobo上见！~

elec_bobo

2020/10/22

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Hello, I'm Elec_bobo.

I want to share my decision with you.

1. As of the end of this month, I've decided to temporarily close my Patreon sponsorship.

2. The 'current Alpha' and 'subsequent Alpha' versions of the RoundHouse will be available free on Twitter @elec_bobo. (The official version will still have to be paid for, but the payment channel has not yet been determined.) (The exact timing and number of alpha releases will depend on the situation.)

3. To our patrons on Patreon who supported me in October, I'll be sending you download link by private messages when the RoundHouse edition is complete.(Probably in the spring of 2021.)

Now I want to explain to you why I did this.

First of all, thank you all so much for supporting me on Patreon. You're one of the things that keeps me working every month. I'd be happy to stay open if I could. But I have come to realize that this behavior has had some negative effects on you and on me.

Roundhouse RH was too much for me to try, and as you can see in the Alpha release, I did a lot of new things with it. As a result, the amount of material I had to make grew even larger. Due to the increased workload, I don't think there is enough capacity for each edition update of Roundhouse in exchange for your monthly sponsorship. I need more time to keep the capacity.

At the same time, the monthly updates leave me no time for more study and improvement.

Since I was a single person, the monthly updates left me with little time to hone my drawing skills and learn new software. As a result of the current painting results, I have a sense of crisis that my ability is always stagnant or even regressive. In addition, I want to try new software, I want to explore new possibilities, I want to learn Blender, I want to learn modeling, I want to give myself a little bit more time to improve myself. So I decided to take a break from my Patreon.

Why make the alpha version public?

This is due to practical considerations.

Even though I've done some work, I still have a limited number of players and a limited revenue stream (I'm a full-time game maker). So I started thinking about how I could be seen by more people, how I could make more people my players. So I want to be a sharer before I can be liked by more people.

The sharer attitude has allowed me to take my work more at ease. I no longer have to make it worthy of the sponsors, but just express myself. Maybe this kind of work can bring me more attention. That's my guess, and I'm going to try to prove or disprove it over a period of time. I hope you can understand.

One final note.

1.The alpha version may not be available in English for a while (but the official version will be), because my Googlecloud trial period is over, which means I'll be charged for using Google Translate in the future (which is one of the reasons I'm going to suspend Patreon). So I want to spend that on the official version.

2.I'll be using my Patreon system's pause billing feature, but you'd better cancel my sponsorship manually to avoid unexpected payments.

Thank you for reading. Wish you a happy life!

See you on Twitter @elec_bobo in the days ahead! ~

elec_bobo

2020/10/22