Game updates' frequency and length poll
Hello!
I'm once again asking for your input lol. So far, for the Eight Years Revolution, I've kept up with fairly short updates to keep the wait between each of them as short as I can (which is still pretty long, since I'm a slow writer and I'm juggling 3 projects at the moment). I was hoping that doing so would keep interest for the game up. Now I'm not convinced it's helping much.
I've been thinking of only posting updates publicly once a full chapter is done (while the early access version of the game would still be updated as normal for my patrons). The only problem with that is that, so far, on average, it takes me a year and a half to write a whole 8YR chapter lol. So I'm asking you what you prefer between what I've been doing so far and waiting longer for full chapter updates.
You can find the poll here!
Thank you all for your support. I know it's a very long road that I'm asking you to follow with me, so I'm very thankful to everyone who's been sticking around!
Edit: I've now closed the poll! Smaller updates won by a small margin, so I don't think I'll be changing how I do updates much. I might try to make sure each update isn't too short, since there's still a significant amount of people who would prefer longer updates. But we'll see how it pans out.
The Eight Years Revolution
A fantasy political intrigue / adventure interactive story, with a dash of romance
Status | In development |
Author | Oscar Arcane |
Genre | Interactive Fiction, Adventure |
Tags | Fantasy, political-intrigue, Romance, Twine |
More posts
- 11/06/23 — Game update 02.8 — Save to file featureNov 06, 2023
- Chapter 2 poll resultsAug 12, 2023
- Chapter 2 pollJul 14, 2023
- Bug fixingMay 17, 2023
- 05/04/23 — Game update 02.6 — Chapter 2, part 6May 04, 2023
- 09/20/22 — Game update 02.5 — Chapter 2, part 5Sep 20, 2022
- Patreon early access — Game update 02.5Sep 06, 2022
- 11/19/21 — Game update 02.4 — Chapter 2, part 4Nov 19, 2021
- Patreon early accessNov 05, 2021
Comments
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at the end of the day, please just do whatever feels easiest for you! no matter when the next update comes or what it's contents are, i look forward to reading more of your fantastic story & sublime writing skills :)
take it easy!
Thank you, that's very sweet. :)
I don't think one option is really easier for me than the other, to be honest. The workload is the same. The thing that might be harder would be the lack of feedback and interaction with the readers for such a long time in the case of full chapter updates. But even that might not be that different in the end. Shorter updates means less content for readers to react to so it might balance out.
The poll is here to give me an idea of how people feel about this, I don't plan on letting it decide for me what to do, but it'll help me make a more informed decision. :)