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What's Going On at HTH Studios
🕑 Added 2020-10-26 01:19:46 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
I know we've been pretty quiet here, what with all the craziness that's been going on from losing our website developer, and unity coder nearly a month apart, and the sudden security issues that required a redesign of the website by myself. We're finally at a place where we can give some updates and let everyone know what we'll be doing moving forward both with our site, Patreon, and our games.
Q: What's going on with our games?
A: Without further Unity help I'm having to learn the tools on my own. I'm still on the lookout for help, but between covid, hurricanes, fires, and other disasters that have made 2020 so insufferable has made it hard to maintain contact with people who have been interested in helping with Unity code. We're good at the studio, but that hasn't been true for everyone that's contacted us wanting to help. So to those people, along with anyone else effected, we hope you're making it through okay.
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Q: What does that mean for the future of High Tail Hall?
A: All of our games are significantly delayed. It's all based on how fast I can learn how to do what I want to do, and as anyone who has studied coding, it's not fast. NOTHING is abandoned, but this means we can no longer make Game updates the focus of our site or our Patreon. We will continue to offer the Unity builds and Flash archives in the meantime. So that won't change.
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Q: With the game updates on pause, what does that mean for Patreon?
A: I would like to switch gears and focus on the Rio Project (aka the Rio DVD). What I would like to do is update everyone with rough storyboards on the film's progress with $5 members getting access to sketches for a week before it goes to $1 members. $10 Patrons will have access to colored Storyboards, and $15 Patrons will have access to animated clips. Content for $10 and $15 tiers will stay with those tiers. I'm making new posts now that will show what the new content will consist of and will go into those tiers. I will update the names of the tiers to reflect this.
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Q: How often will you post updates on the Rio Project?
A: As of right now, it's very hard to say. I haven't gotten into a rhythm with this yet but I would like to get better and take everyone along for this process.
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Q: What about voting?
A: Because the focus is on the Rio Project, votes are pushed to the back burner. We will still have votes, but only when needed, and it won't be something we'll focus on for the foreseeable future. When we do have a vote suggestions will still be in the $10 tier and double votes will be for the $15 tier.
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Q: What will happen to the website?
A: I want to expand our website on my own now. I'm getting a better handle on what I can do to get the site the way I want. The store is still functioning, and as things progress I will flesh out the front end.
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Let us know if you have any questions or thoughts about these changes. These plans are not solidified and are subject to change as things progress. Thank you so much for your continued support! We couldn't keep this up without you!
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Colord44
Okay first it's just great to hear from you. Explaining it like this makes it easy to understand. While I've not done coding believe me doing something like this can't happen overnight. Hell just trying to get better in art like I'm doing is a learning and growing process that takes time. Thankfully just knowing you guys are doing great (Despite weather, virus, and loosing people) the best thing like with me is never giving up but keep chugging forward as best as you can. Walking away and giving up is the worst thing to do, even more so from those fires I've heard about. So like with me we'll both chug ahead and show off with something amazing
