Donations keep on rolling in, so thanks again for your generosity. The funds remaining to complete the project have decreased slightly to $5.1k remaining, but it doesn’t pose a threat to reaching v1.0.
I had hoped to have moved on to the v0.80 series by now, which is when I’ll revisit the UI and mobile, but progress has been slow. I haven’t yet lined up a colourist with the chops to complete the art either. At least I’m building up a good stock of mortal characters: 12 in total. I promised 18 in the OffBeatr campaign, so there’s more work to do in that area, of course. (If you ordered a custom character, please e-mail me at jack@fleshcult.com. I’ve been trying to get in touch with you guys! Hopefully I haven’t been spam filtered)
Lately I’ve been experimenting with making the game compose sex scene paragraphs in a more coherent order. I’ve also been researching how to test on a variety on Android configurations without buying a whole device lab. DeviceAnywhere looks promising, but it’s laggy as shit so other ideas are welcome. (And yes, I’ve ordered actual hardware too so that I don’t miss ergonomic problems)
Details below the fold:
| Total pledged | $12,062.00 |
| Total collected (Less failed transactions) | $11,457.00 |
| Offbeatr Fee (20%) | $2,291.40 |
| Net Offbeatr Revenue | $9,165.60 |
| Gumroad gross (February) | $1,640.00 |
| Gumroad net (February) | $1,514.75 |
| Gumroad gross (March) | $2,460.00 |
| Gumroad net (March) | $2,271.50 |
| Gumroad gross (April) | $1,785.00 |
| Gumroad net (April) | $1,648.25 |
| Gumroad gross (May) | $1,605.00 |
| Gumroad net (May) | $1,481.50 |
| Gumroad gross (June) | $1,530.00 |
| Gumroad net (June) | $1,358.25 |
| Gumroad gross (July) | $1,430.00 |
| Gumroad net (July) | $1,319.00 |
| Gumroad net (To date) | $9,593.25 |
| Paypal revenue | $197.38 |
| Total revenue | $18,956.23 |
| Income tax owed | $2,880.79 |
| Total revenue after tax | $16,075.44 |
| Cost of goods (eBooks) | $288.00 |
| Paypal fee | $14.41 |
| Total COGS | $302.41 |
| Salary (Weekly, backdated from crowdfunding end date) | |
| First payment | 01/02/13 |
| Paid up till | 26/07/13 |
| Num weeks | 26 |
| Weekly salary | $330.00 |
| Total salary | $8,580.00 |
| Hosting expenses | |
| For Feb 2013 | $111.35 |
| For Mar 2013 | $72.15 |
| For April 2013 | $80.73 |
| For May 2013 | $106.06 |
| For June 2013 | $108.15 |
| For July 2013 | $106.07 |
| Total hosting expenses | $584.51 |
| Contractor expenses (to date) | |
| Writing | $1,231.31 |
| Art | $202.00 |
| Total contractor expenses | $1,433.31 |
| Total expenses | $10,900.23 |
| Project balance remaining | $5,175.21 |
I just want to say how much I love your transparency. It’s really rare to see a project be up front with the figures like this and (on top of great work) it stands to be commended.
It hadn’t occurred to me to say anything, but seeing AnonyMr’s comment made me realize both (a) how much I *have* appreciated the transparency, and (b) that I really should voice that appreciation.
+1 Approval of your tendency to say where the money’s going.
Ditto, +1 for awesome transparency.