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I was in a bit of a funk for a little while, work hasn't helped that. So I decided to try working on some other stuff for a bit to see if it could spark some motivation. I don't know if anyone would be interested in this stuff, but I figure I'll post it anyways. After the SMS is complete I'd like to keep doing game making and design, and this is some concept art for an idea I had. This isn't something I'm gonna start really working on until SMS is finished or in the final stages. But it's fun to think about once in a while when I need a break. A lot of the art in this mock-up is heavily referenced, and or just totally traced, because these are just mock-ups for ideas and stuffs. So disclaimer, not all mine, not trying to say it is. XD So these are just 3 rough concepts for different art/styles of a game that I'd like to do in the future after SMS is complete. The first version would be stylized to be like an old arcane book that you'd see in Skyrim or some other fantasy type game. It'd be much more text heavy, and play similar to something like CoC (only a little less blatantly everything is an excuse for sex) The second option was something NES inspired, because I like retro pixel art when it's done really well, like that skeleton that I totally stole XD' It'd be the least text heavy option, and would more or less just be stat building rather then trying to be flavorful. The third version was gonna be more SNES inspired, it'd have more detailed pixel art and have some text, but still not nearly as much as the first option. Characters would all be on little stands like their all game pieces from D&D or something like that. In spite of how different these look, all the core mechanics would essentially be the same, it's mostly just an aesthetics things, as well as minor changes. Combat would be turn based, with some D&D elements regardless of the style. I have a bunch of other ideas floating around for styles and such that I didn't sketch up, but if people are interested, whenever I get into a funk I might do some more. =) If anyone is interested or curious about this idea/future project thing, let me know, or if you think I should just focus on SMS also let me know. =)

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Anonymous

I think it's normal for artists to grow tired of a particularly challenging/long-term project. It's healthy to look for something different to keep your creative juices flowing and your batteries charged. However, I feel that SMS should always come first on the schedule where it is the "founding project" of this Patreon account and why most of your supporters are here and what they're waiting for. Once you've gotten as far as you can with it or completed an allotted time frame -then- flop to something different to play around with like anyone else would at their job. That said, I'd personally love to see more than SMS come from you in the future especially of an erotic nature. Perhaps once SMS 1.0 is released you should take a break from it and turn your attention to other fun ideas if it's putting you into a slump.

draite

Don't worry, I have no intention of switching over to working on a second game even along side SMS. This is just something I have as an idea for the next thing I do, after SMS is complete. I have zero intention of doing any sort of actual work on this new unnamed idea that may or may not even become a thing. I was just rolling some ideas around in my head and wanted to 'throw them on paper' so to speak. So I won't be doing any sort of final art, or coding, or anything of that nature. The most I'd be doing is an occasional mock up or doodle of things that I'd be happy to share with anyone interested. However it would in no way impact, slow down, or take priority of SMS until SMS is complete. I've kind of hit a wall with SMS recently, not because I'm bored with it, but because I just don't know where to take it. I haven't had a ton of feedback recently, as far as what people enjoy about the current builds. (Side note, I'm not saying that as if the people giving me money should also be sending me gushing fanmail too, what selfish pricks, or something. I just haven't put out content that has gotten a real reaction, and I know that if and when I have put out content that was real good, I always got awesome feedback and it felt nice. So I feel like I just haven't really put out that content lately.) So that's just left me in this weird limbo where I don't know what to focus on next that would get people excited and interested again. That, among several other personal things going on, left me in a funk and I just wanted to vomit some other ideas out and see if that would help cleanse my palette and get me back on track. I may try and consult my erotica guru Blade sometime soon if he's got any free time and see if he can help point me in a direction. Sorry, I know this is a long as hell response, but I just want it to be clear that I'm not gonna try and sweep SMS under the rug for a new project or anything like that. I have no intention of turning this Patreon into a string of half finished projects or something like that. However, if people are interested in seeing concept art, it'd be something I'd be willing to post very sporadically whenever I get an idea that I'm very attached to. SMS updates will continue in the normal sporadic fashion they always have. =) That said, once SMS is done, I do intend to use this patreon for future projects, but that's totally months and months away. (If there's a god, not over a year, because I don't think this game is so complicated it should take that long. Knock on wood.) After that though I may occasionally go back and do little updates to SMS when I'm in the mood. But once it's done, it'll more or less be done, but again this is way in the future and I have no idea how things may or may not change. Sorry for rambling, but hopefully I made some sense. X3'