Paypal doesn’t have to deal with naughty stuff on patreon. Patreon gets to keep making money from us under our SFW studio. This is the one plan that patreon would never argue with and which is the least bad option we have. I’ve been aware of this weakness in the system since the moment I first joined. I’ve been around longer than patreon and will be around after it’s gone. It’s always a gamble, and eventually it will be a disaster. I am therefore always forced to dance around from place to place to keep my team and myself working and getting paid. This means that no matter where I go, no matter what site I work with, I have the same eventual issues if they are controlled by those payment processors. In other words, they’re in exactly the same position I am one level up. The payment processors can just refuse to work with patreon entirely at any time they please. Patreon would be insane to want to take all their cash cows out back and shoot them in the head, but they have no choice. That villain is paypal and other payment processors. You see, the real villain here isn’t patreon. Instead of us either having to mutilate our games beyond recognition at exorbitant cost or losing all of our income right before Christmas, we now have an opportunity to fix the single greatest weakness of every NSFW game developer: stability.
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We’ll also be looking into getting merch set up, and payments through our own site using a private payment processor.Ĥ: For the near future we’ll be releasing SFW Content on the patreon page, starting with Building Joy as it’s developing, and some normal stories and sketches that will be more interesting than a hidden object game for you all. We can finish these without patreon’s money.
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We retain the same page, and your patronage unless you wish to change that.ģ: All major NSFW game development is suspended while we get our feet back under us in other locations, but we will finish up Hypnolab and the Bonus Day DLC of Snow Daze first, as a lot of work has already been done on them and both should have no issues on Steam. We will now be known on patreon as Citric Thoughts Games, and this is effectively a different company altogether. We can’t post the link here, so check our twitter!Ģ: The patreon page will immediately be rebranded and used exclusively for SFW writing, games, and content. If you’d like to support our NSFW games, please move your support to our subscribestar account. , steam (as they approve of things) and our new subscribestar page. Effective immediately, we will be doing the following:ġ: All nsfw games, content, and prior works are being removed from patreon entirely, and will now be available on However, that’s when I hit on the idea that I ended up giving to patreon, which they accepted immediately. Obviously it can’t bring in much income, and without the income from patreon getting started in the SFW world would be practically impossible as well. It is not done, however, since my focus was on finishing my nsfw games. Being a game genre primarily for moms to play on the phone, it’s a way to diversify our audience and make some stable SFW bucks. I originally designed it as a game I could use to get a toehold in non-adult game development. A very different game from all the others I’ve been working on.īuilding Joy is an entirely safe for work game in the “hidden object game” genre. While I was developing Snow Daze, Kissing Therapy, Hypnolab, and working on getting bits of Overwhored done (again, overworking to get stuff out before all this happened), I was also working on ANOTHER game, because I am completely insane. Although this will mean tremendous change and will be rather unpleasant for all of us in some ways, this is the best use I could make of this situation. I’ve been rushing, trying to make too many games at once and burning myself out precisely because I figured this day would come.Īt the last instant however, I had a brilliant idea that turned things around, got patreon to unban us, and allows me to keep paying the people that work for me over the holidays. At first I despaired and was ready to retire, because those plans simply weren’t ready yet.
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However, I’ve actually been preparing for this day for a long time. The following is a continuation of the above post: