Hi everyone. I opened a Patreon. First post for patrons only will be up next week.

LINK: https://www.patreon.com/meirigames/

Here’s why I opened one:

If you’ve been following my complaints on Twitter, I’ve been having a terrible time trying to get back the last itch.io payout Paypal mysteriously automatically rejected for me. Itch.io has not responded to my emails asking for help on how to get the money back. I don’t know if this will happen again for future payouts.

Payouts fund my games and everything related to them, such as developer accounts, paying for art (logos, character designs…) and so on. But if I’m unable to get payouts from now on… not only are those small donations going poof, I also won’t be able to get payouts from cool opportunities such as the Queer Games Bundle! Not to doompost, but I need to be prepared in case itch.io is not a viable source of income for my games anymore.

It doesn’t help that I’m brazilian and the dollar is too freakin’ expensive right now. 100 bucks for you is 500 for me. I simply cannot afford putting my games on Steam by myself, or paying a logo designer what they’re worth.

I have, like, 3 different project ideas I’m writing rough outlines on right now, some for game jams. I want to be able to make the games come to life the way I envision it, and I’ll need a budget for that! I’ve got a plot outline with 5k words for a particular one, and another with full character profiles. Hey, if you wanna hear more about that, maaaaybe become a patron??? Hint hint nudge nudge – [gets blasted with tomatoes]

Oh, and also:

I have a dream. A song to sing.

I’ve been building up to this project since 2016. It’s the culmination of all the themes I’ve explored in my games, and will explore in the future. It gives closure to your favorite characters and stories. It bookends a phase of my life. It might be the last game I ever make, and I honestly wouldn’t mind it being how my hobby ends.

The common route is roughly 80k words long. I’ve got about 150k words written so far and it’s barely scratching the surface. I’m not kidding when I say this project is my life’s work; I think about it constantly. I find myself looking for artists, composers, GUI designers, coders to commission to bring it to life, even though I know the day I’ll be able to do so for real isn’t coming anytime soon.

The above image is part of my Budget Document for the dream. I’m saving up every bit I can to reach that rough goal - which might end up being way more than 10k, depending on if we’re having a full original soundtrack and voice acting, a promotional trailer, an opening video, if I’m hiring a marketing manager… you get the gist.

My family members don’t know I save up the money they gave me on my birthday to fund this thing. They think I’m buying clothes. I’m sorry, Grandma.

Currently, I’m on my last year of college; if everything goes well I’ll be a licensed therapist next year. I’ll be able to get some income and save a little bit of it to fund the dream. It’s been a tough school year so far but when I remind myself that once I start working I’ll be able to maybe get on commissioning character designers, I get a rush of energy.

God I love this hobby. It’s stressful, but I love it. Thank you for supporting me and helping me to keep creating silly things. I wouldn’t be here without the kind words, the feedback, and the donations. I hope you’ll stick around for 2030 when The Dream(tm) is ready for release and I’ve got Suisei from Hololive singing the theme song, produced by Revo from Sound Horizon!

Looks off into sunset

Yuu with Yua’s face isn’t real, he can’t hurt you – OH GOD OH FUCK