Sales tax on patreon heads-up

Patreon is recommending that I do the work of softening you up to this and suggests I post something like the sample passage linked here.

But I’m not a patreon employee so I figure I have no obligation to do their PR for them. I only care about you guys so here’s the relevant stuff I can figure out:

• Patreon will start charging new sales taxes from on July 1st
• The changes effects only some US patrons (sales taxes are already applied elsewhere)
• Pledges to me will be effected by sales tax to some degree if you’re in a location where the sales taxes apply, because I offer stuff that is taxable
• I have tried to mark the kind of content I offer so that your pledge isn’t taxed unneccesarily (i.e. your whole pledge won’t get taxed for a fractional benefit you receive that is taxable).
• If it works anything like my experience of VAT on patreon, then the tax will be added on top of the amount you pledge. Meaning that you will be paying more.

Patreon will apparently be sending details with relevant info on June 1st to patrons who will be effected, so look out for that I guess?

Being able to mark what kind of content I offer for the purposes of sales tax seems like a new feature, so maybe it will reduce taxes on pledges that were already being taxed? I have no idea though.

As always, if this (or anything else) leads to you lowering or removing your pledge, please know I completely understand and am grateful for any level of support that you have given until now <3

Vampire Queen of Evenmere – week 3

OK so first up: This week I’ve had a HUGE writer’s block. I only managed a few hundred words for quite a few days.

But thanks to a bunch of energy at the start, and a little I seem to be regaining now – I still have ~something~ to show for it. For one, there is a reading/playthrough I streamed as an attempt to break my block (VOD above). I play up to entering the castle before needing to stop. And I’m back to writing now so that’s as far as I play for now 🙂

Anyway, stats: we’re at 260+ passages, the so as you can tell we’re WAY down from writing ~100 per week. Also I’ve only just hit a wordcount of 25k – a week late.

The plus side is I have a much better idea of where I’m going with everything, and the stuff in the castle has been getting filled in nicely – there’s ghosts, lore, puzzles, ability challenges, and of course monsters (which I still haven’t made yet. Wow I should have worked on them whilst I had writer’s block huh? fuck, next time!)

Anyway if you want to play this version: this is the link!

Dealings in Dungeons – Complete!

So this one took a while longer than I planned, but it is probably one of my better games!

I will be looking into getting sets of cards properly printed, but for the time-being it should work fine as a print-and-play game, as well as in a web browser >> over here <<.

If you’re in the extra-stuff tier, you can grab HD versions of ALL of the card illustrations in this post.

Update: I added a zip containing the web version, so you can play it offline, and also have a bunch of smaller jpgs of all the cards if that is something you want 🙂

Palutte

Hey minor update because I just did a new thing! Yesterday someone asked me to make a system to render dithered images with a specific colour palette and I honestly didn’t know if I could! But I kind of had an idea how I’d do it and I couldn’t get it out of my head once I started thinking about it.

Long story short, I figured it out! And I learned a bunch about unity image effects, shaders, colour spaces, and colour maths in the process 😀

You can see a video explanation here, or grab the unity package here alongside a bunch of my other unity systems.

Or you can just look at these test images I made showing Sarah’s Run with different colour palettes:

also here is what Sarah’s Run would look like on Pico-8

OK that’s it for today, hope you’re well because I love you <3 o/

Monthly Video – May 2020 (+latest Dreamsent PDF)

I know I didn’t upload a video last month, I’m sorry about that and as soon as I find a way to make it up to you I will, in the mean time here’s a video of me talking about some stuff I’ve been doing, and also a 50 page PDF of what I have for that TTRPG I’ve been working on 🙂

I love you all, I hope you’re well! <3