I have had a Patreon account since launching my first game last summer, but I don't really get a lot of folks heading over there x3 I think maybe because I can't really offer much that's exciting? Like I know some devs who are also artists can put up cool sketches and stuff! But I have no drawing talent T_T haha. It probably also doesn't help that I think I'm generally just quite unknown as a dev. It's my own fault for not trying to be more active on social media and build a following, but with social anxiety, I find social media terrifying >.<
My friend who was the voice director for this + voice actor in some of my other projects wanted to try and put together a Kickstarter for one of my other projects (CiQ). His artist friend from Japan redrew all the sprites in her style, we got a cast together to make a brand new fully voiced acted demo, and then the plan was to launch the new demo alongside a KS. To try and build up some kind of a following, we were posting character intro/reveal vids on YT once a week, but they only got like 30-ish views >.<
So, right now, I'm super stuck with CiQ. The demo has been sat on my PC waiting to be released since January, but it looks like there's no way we can get a KS off the ground because hardly anyone knows about the project. If we had an artist to post regular sketches to help build a following, that might help, but as it stands, it's like the project is just dead in the water :( Which sucks because I have the entire thing written and ready to be made into a game.
I will definitely finish it still at some point because I never leave things unfinished :3 But it's disheartening, ya know. We only wanted to do the KS to get enough funding to have the game fully voiced + get a CG artist + cover fees and maybe put it on Steam. We weren't even gonna pay ourselves a penny out of it xD If I have to finish and release it without voice acting, so be it, but it's a shame because we have an amazing cast.
A KS for DD sure would be handy too since it's a project which is heavily reliant on voice acting and I plan to have 8+ characters with 4+ episodes each in the final version. I'm still not sure if enough people know about it/would support it for a campaign to be successful though >.< I've heard that it's super hard to get a KS to be successful :(
PS. Sorry for rambling so much x3