![]() #Sunrider mask of arcadius romance options professionalThe visual novel has professional quality voice actors, sound design, art, and more, to the point that the amount of money they’ve collected through the crowdfunder could never cover all this alone. All the crowdfunder money and more is accounted for in the completed work. With Sunrider, though, the production values, the amount of content created, the amount of just plain work that’s so, so apparent in the finished product is so high that I will never believe that Sunrider’s turning a profit. Nobody’s going to get rich off that, but that’s still more than enough, with proper management, to get a small, limited, indie game out into the world with a tidy profit trailing it. Love in Space, Sunrider’s creators, ran a successful crowdfunding campaign, raising over $44,000, almost fifteen times their original goal. And yet, even though they got money involved, this is very much an obvious labor of love. It’s not necessarily a worse situation, just a different one, and we’ve been seeing plenty of it lately with the rise of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Patreon.Īnd I think that’s a large part of the reason why I like Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius so much. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with trying to make a living out of your work, but the pursuit of compensation does necessitate a different way of creating, and oftentimes your work will be quite a bit different than it would have been had you just done it for nothing other than the need to create. Nonprofit projects where everyone regularly stretches every dollar involved as far as possible will suddenly get a lot more convoluted when people find there’s the possibility of getting paid, and artists trying to turn their craft into a business quickly find out how much they need to change their approach to their art. I’ve seen that so many times, through my background in both working with nonprofits and as a small business consultant. And that means they need to eat, take shelter, and bungee jump over active volcanoes just as much as regular people like you and me. There is one big flaw with creators, though. The freeware creators are incredibly valuable. In fact, I believe that’s one of the greatest things about the internet, that it makes it so easy for creators to just produce and get their works to an audience, with no worries about the costs of publishing, marketing, or anything else that normally goes into most of the creative works we all enjoy. The urge to just create is a powerful, beautiful thing, and some of the best works of art out there are just these kinds of projects, those that exist for no other reason than to fulfill someone’s passion. Because three: on this space planet, time is space weird: each day has ten hours, each week has ten days, each month has five weeks, and each year has ten months.I’ve got a real soft spot in my heart for those works that are made not because someone’s trying to make a profit, not because someone wants to get a name for themselves, but simply because someone decides that this is a thing that needs to exist. And maybe picking up a girlfriend in the meantime.Įxcept it’s not really ‘a couple’. Letting him sleep at least four hours a day, which honestly feels like a major deficit. ![]() All I know if this: There are hours, days, weeks, and months, and I’m to steer Kayto through a couple of the latter without failing him too hard. And lucky? Listen, I don’t understand how this works. Kayto’s gotta make the best out of his school days to get strong, smart, and likeable. Two, Sunrider Academy is at least in part a ‘time management’ style visual novel / dating sim. ![]() It’s a high school game, sure, but it’s a high school on a fancy future colonized planet! They’ve probably got like, laser guns and stuff. One, Sunrider Academy hasn’t entirely left behind Mask of Arcadius‘ space theme. ![]()
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