Status/Patreon Update (and Game?!) (Patreon)

"WHOA WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT UP THERE?! IS THAT A PIXEL RENDITION OF THE COCKPIT WITH THE WHOLE CREW PRESENT?!" You yell at the monitor. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'GAME'?!" You add. But we'll get back to that in a sec.

So, status update! Thank you all so much for being so patient! This break couldn't have come at a better time. We went traveling to find some apartments out in the countryside where our house would eventually be. What we found...wasn't pretty. Look, our standards are super low. We're from Louisiana for god's sake, we don't know what higher standards of living look like. But these apartments were abysmal. Smoke-stained walls, dead insects littering the carpet, flood damage, high prices, a pool with a warning sign saying the water was dangerous to our health(?!). Everything we found depressed the hell out of us. We were ready to bite the bullet, pinch our noses and just live in one of these dumps for the foreseeable future until we could eventually get our house going.

But then, just out of curiosity, we stopped by a mobile home lot. Yes, we looked at some trailers. Although they call them "manufactured homes" now, because trailers kind of have a stigma to them.  Honestly, I'm kind of worried about even bringing it up, because I know people might look down on us for it, but...guys, these trailers were so fucking nice. They were nicer than the home we originally wanted to build, with more living space and half the price. Not only that, but the layouts were more in line with what we need for our lifestyle. They were perfect. Perfect trailers. We found our new home. We're gonna buy a nice-ass trailer for half of what we were going to spend on a house.

And then we realized...we have three months before our current lease is up. If we save up more money, we could just skip living in another apartment and just move straight into our beautiful new "manufactured" home. The downpayment is low enough for us to cover, we just need to get the land cleared off in time and save up money to cover everything. It's absolutely doable. But I won't lie and say I wouldn't love some more help!

So, what's up with that image all the way above this wall of text? Well, during our break, Leslie's learned how to program via GameMaker! Not only is she learning at an alarming rate, but she's also just having a whole lot of fun with it!  You can see the thing in motion here on Leslie's twitter. We're hoping to have a fully playable, interactive bus tour soon for you guys! This will be a Patron-exclusive reward for everyone pledging $5 and up. We just need to add some animation and dialogue, all the other assets are pretty much already made (all hand-drawn, pixel-by-pixel by Leslie~). We'd like to make an actual game at some point and kind of have an idea in the works, so this would be a good prototype. Don't worry, this won't take away from the comic itself! This is purely something we're doing for fun on the side.

We're also trying to figure out ways to increase more interest in our Patreon. I know some interest was shown in a Discord, but unfortunately, we'd have to set it at the $10 tier, since there's exclusive content locked behind that tier and we don't want to limit people's ability to discuss them. If that's okay (or you know a way to circumvent that issue, or if you don't think it's as much of an issue as we think it is), let us know! We're also giving it some heavy thought, and as Patron Jonathan Howe suggested in our last post, we'd absolutely love to dedicate an entire wall of our eventual new home to our Patrons. We still need to iron out all the details, but basically, we want to order a TON of paper dicks, write everyone's names on them, and stick them to our wall. That seems like the most fitting way to honor all you glorious perverts and thank you for letting us get to where we are. That said, though, we're currently at 1,000 Patrons already (WHICH IS INCREDIBLE).  I don't know if it's actually feasible to stick 1,000 paper dicks on a wall, especially if more join up before our house goes up. This may be another thing we have to lock behind a tier, though we don't know which yet. Is that something you'd all be down for? Let us know!

Other than all that, I'm currently writing the next chapter, Leslie's working on Patreon rewards, and this weekend we're going back down to get more trailer planning done! Everything's coming up aces! Thanks for suffering through my giant-ass blog post, thanks for being so patient, and we're hoped you're ready for another awesome Rock Cocks chapter! We're gonna put everything we've got into it! See you all again real soon!