AGE OF BARBARIANS - Patreon page.

[Crian Soft]

https://www.patreon.com/ageofbarbarians

Yeah! The Age of Barbarians' Patreon page is online!!!
An incredible journey is started right today! Something in which we believe, something we have a great passion for, which we have been cultivating for a lifetime, something that we'll be happy to share with you.
May the gods hear the call that comes from the age of barbarians!

[ZeroSum716]

Crom!

[Journeyman]

Crian Soft, unless I am unaware, I feel you should have an Official Age of Barbarian Discord server by now. Especially since you are venturing into RPG territory, and thus expanding on lore, characters, scenes, story, and the world in itself! Not to mention helps with your marketing efforts! Please consider such as it would be great to participate in a Discord server of to me one of the games that best represent classic erotic fantasy!

[ZeroSum716]

Originally posted by FantasyM:

Crian Soft, unless I am unaware, I feel you should have an Official Age of Barbarian Discord server by now. Especially since you are venturing into RPG territory, and thus expanding on lore, characters, scenes, story, and the world in itself! Not to mention helps with your marketing efforts! Please consider such as it would be great to participate in a Discord server of to me one of the games that best represent classic erotic fantasy!

I'd join it.

[kane]

What is the short special event to the game at the Barbarian God level.

[kane]

Originally posted by Nightstar:

Originally posted by kane:

What is the short special event to the game at the Barbarian God level.

This is a reply I got from Criansoft when I asked them the same thing:

For those which the Patreon reaches $250, can request the addition of any contents, not only bad night, within reasonable limits, of course.

I asked them if they mean we have to pay $250 for a bad night or a special event. They replied with:

I wouldn't see it that way; The Patreon helps us by supporting development, based on how much we are supported, we offer rewards or bonuses.

So in other words, yes? A lot of replies I get from Criansoft don't make a lot of sense. Hopefully they'll clarify it here, but I have a feeling we'll be even more confused if they answer.

Thanks for the answer i was hoping for a character, not a main story character but a side mission character. I will see what happens thanks again.

[rolomeynolds]

Criansoft did mention that they are launching a discord server soon.

[Crian Soft]

A Barbarian God level could add a content of his choice. For example, it could be a mini-dungeon, some traps, or a particular cutscene of any nature. It will be easier to understand what to add when the game will be a little more advanced and its mechanics better defined.

[Crian Soft]

Originally posted by rolomeynolds:

Criansoft did mention that they are launching a discord server soon.

And yes, our Discord channel is now open. :)

[Achos]

Originally posted by Nightstar:

Originally posted by kane:

What is the short special event to the game at the Barbarian God level.

This is a reply I got from Criansoft when I asked them the same thing:

For those which the Patreon reaches $250, can request the addition of any contents, not only bad night, within reasonable limits, of course.

I asked them if they mean we have to pay $250 for a bad night or a special event. They replied with:

I wouldn't see it that way; The Patreon helps us by supporting development, based on how much we are supported, we offer rewards or bonuses.

So in other words, yes? A lot of replies I get from Criansoft don't make a lot of sense. Hopefully they'll clarify it here, but I have a feeling we'll be even more confused if they answer.

I'd say the sense of that message was that CrianSoft doesn't 'sell' "Bad Nights" for 250 as in a single purchase; you pay, they make it.
They will provide an offer for those supporters whose life-time patronage reaches $250, to have their own little idea inserted into the game. That idea might be a "bad night" but it could be other things. Within reason of course.
So, for instance, 10 months of $25/month patronage and you're there.

CHeers

[Vincent]

Originally posted by Nightstar:

Patreon Pinup Suggestions

Here’s a suggestion for pinups that can be used as Patreon rewards. Many of the monsters, characters, and animations for Age of Barbarians come from the Daz3D, Renderotica, and Renderosity stores.

Sheyna uses a custom face and hairstyle, so you can’t just buy her online to use in Daz3D. However, by taking certain products from the Daz3D store, Criansoft could easily assemble images that make the Patreon tiers more appealing, thus bringing in more subscribers.

Adding pinup pictures as rewards have several benefits:

• They’re easy and cheap to make from pre-existing assets
  
• No animation is required as they are just still shots using premade poses
  
• There are no problems with broken game code since we’re just rendering pictures and not altering the game in any way
  
• Pictures can also be uploaded to DeviantArt and Rule34 sites which provides indirect advertising for the series and the Patreon page

The pictures I have in mind are suggestive but not explicit and will evoke a range of emotions ranging from playful, sexy, sinister, and fun.


Late Night Tavern Party Setting
We’ll use this tavern[gcdn.daz3d.com] from this package.[www.daz3d.com]


Celebration Picture 1
Click here[www.daz3d.com] and look towards the left of the main picture where you’ll see a barefoot woman dancing with a man as they face each other and hold hands.

Simply place Sheyna in this pose and replace the man with Starn standing up on a barstool. They should both look very happy as Starn is the only person Sheyna would dance with like this.

To ramp up the intensity, add a group of orcs heavily drinking at a table. One of the orcs half-drunkenly leans forward on his stool with half-closed eyes and a lazy smile, reaching for Sheyna’s raised ankle while holding on to a set of dungeon manacles.

Have some of the other orcs looking over with interest, slowly drawing their weapons as other tavern NPCs (innkeeper, barmaid, serving girls) all look fearful and are turning to leave. Sheyna and Starn are completely oblivious to what’s about to happen.


Celebration Picture 2
Make a follow-up picture showing the aftermath where Starn is tied to the barstool and Sheyna is hogtied with manacles, lying face down on the table.

The orcs are standing around her, smiling broadly, eating meat, drinking, and rubbing their hands together. One orc is pulling Sheyna’s head up by her hair and his midsection is level with her face.


Blatant Admirer Picture 1
Sheyna dances in the tavern using the pose on the right.[gcdn.daz3d.com] She-Red holds up two mugs of ale and sits on a stool. She-Red leans back against the bar, biting her lip and tilting her head to the side, her gaze sweeping down Sheyna’s hips, backside, and thighs.


Blatant Admirer Picture 2
Both mugs of ale are empty and lying on their sides. She-Red is marching straight towards Sheyna, who is dancing in a different pose[gcdn.daz3d.com] and has closed her eyes, lost in the music.


Blatant Admirer Picture 3
Sheyna’s eyes are wide open and her arms are down by her sides in shock. She-Red has grabbed Sheyna by the back of the head and is kissing her as deeply as she can. Starn jumps up and down on a table in the background, clenching his fists in jealously.

Sion claps and whistles with a maiden sitting innocently on each of his thighs. Kirina the maiden looks shocked with her hand over her mouth and Aishi is peeking through her hands. Eyla the maiden fidgets in excitement, playing with her hair and desperately trying not to squeeze her own chest.


Conclusion

Using just one setting and a little imagination, any number of pictures can be created. Pin-up pictures don't even a story or theme. You could just put Sheyna against a very basic background and have her pose the way a classic pin-up model[www.featurepics.com] would.

Pin-up pictures made from readily available assets and poses could provide a cheap and effective way to get more Patreon subscribers while making the current ones happier.

Crian Soft should definitely hire you and put you in charge of its advertising deparment

[Vincent]

Criansoft: Well there’s no record of any person matching the description so it must be someone else. What about Vincent? [/quote]

True I would be to busy plotting my revenge against the Creators while listening to 19 century's villan music

Criansoft: We’re pretty sure it’s yo…

Nightstar: Achos must have wanted a life-size model for his spectacular artwork!

Criansoft: You are covered in the missing dolls! We know it was you! What do you have to say?

Nightstar: ….you will NEVER catch me!

<Nightstar sprints out of the building and down the street with a Sheyna sex doll over his shoulder. The doll's jiggly bits wobble madly. All the while, irate Italian software developers give chase.> [/quote]

Would there be a man in gorilla costume chasing you as well?

[Vincent]

Originally posted by Nightstar:

Those guys are pure evil. I've never seen anime villains that I hated so much, even though they never once appeared on the screen. We only see their spaceships appear at the end of Ergo Proxy. It's a shame there was no second season.

Then you better don't watch the anime Shiki

Originally posted by Vincent:

One gorilla, one lizardman, one orc, and a pigman. Spider cultists are too busy at the wildlife museum worshipping the spiders.

Better make a Sheyna arachne doll and then steal it to draw their attention

[OneChanceMan]

Yeeee that exactly is the point, Nightstar.
I'm always looking forward to see the new pinups every weekend.
But to be honest, I've been waiting every weekend for Sheyna shows up in hot pinups since they announced pinup rewards.

Come on Crian Soft, we're gonna starve to die:D
But we're still waiting for her HD closed-up bad night pinups😎
(btw thanks a lot for the latest pinups!!)

Originally posted by Nightstar:

The Pinup Everyone’s Waiting For Part Two

Yanah Pinup #1
Yanah is both topless and kneeling and there are silhouettes of the two moons in the background. If you remember the plot of Arena, Yanah was to be sacrificed in a ritual when the two moons were in alignment, allowing Zordax to steal Yanah’s power.

The pinup is great, illustrating the curves of Yanah’s body. She’s in her Revenge outfit (leggings, sword) but she is also topless which is necessary for the scientific research benefits.


She-Red Pinup
It’s very hard to convey a feeling of motion in a still picture, yet the artist has done so seemingly effortlessly.

She-Red looks like she has sliced through an enemy and is moving to the side to dodge a second attack, all while blood coats her sword, spatters on her face, and trails in a way that almost mimics the motion of her crimson hair.

She appears to be swatting the second attack aside with her shield as she’s sidestepping the blow, ready to make her next attack.

Incidentally, the blood trail looks like it has formed the letter D. I don’t know if this is the artist’s signature or a coincidence.

A stained effect hangs in the background that works well. You could easily imagine She-Red fighting an opponent in AoB Arena with spectators cheering from their seats.


Sheyna Pinup #1: Campfire Dancing Peril
Use a pose for Sheyna that looks like this[www.deviantart.com] (NSFW). This pose unmistakably conveys dancing motion. Have Sheyna perform against a dark background and add silhouettes for a campfire, the two moons in the night sky, and dark trees or rocks in the background.

Sheyna should have a seductive, flirty expression while looking directly into the camera as though dancing for us viewers, blissfully unaware of what is behind her.

Place the silhouettes of three monsters (artist’s choice - apemen behind rocks, orcs behind trees) watching Sheyna with big grins. Show them holding ropes and make it clear that they are about to grab her.


Sheyna Pinup #2: Dungeon Bondage Punishment
Use a background that looks like a dark dungeon cell or cave with Sheyna in this position (NSFW).[www.deviantart.com] There will be no goblin holding a knife here.

Have an effect showing that the cell door has been opened with light coming through. In the light cast onto the dungeon cell wall is a silhouette of Kahn Dread. He has one hand on the door, and the other on his midsection. Sheyna has the same expression as the girl in the linked picture.


Sheyna Pinup #3: Spider Bondage Peril
Have Sheyna facing the camera and struggling against a web she is tied to as the silhouette of a huge spider is positioned behind her, looking as though it is closing its legs around her like this picture (NSFW). [www.deviantart.com]


Conclusion
Sheyna pinups are what many of us have been waiting for. Title the pinups correctly with enticing keywords (topless, bondage, dancing, peril etc) and see just how big the reaction is.

If Criansoft makes this a regular occurrence, watch as subscribers stay for longer happily throw money at the devs.

[Celendrin]

I subbed on the Patreon for 27 dollars when I first joined (How can you _not_ support Crian Soft !!?? )


However, I was rather dismayed when I seen that you guys have like 5+ games on the go at once,

that's not good.

If you're going to make games, I would feel there would be a consensus (I feel this way and all the friends I tried to 'pitch' the Patreon to feel the same..),

that you should work on 1-2 games max,

It looks like you have games going all over the place, in all kinds of different genres.

And this is all with basically one sole developer??

There's no way you can keep up the quality of any of the games if you're developing more than 2 at once,

never mind 4-5 as you seem to be.

It comes off as a bit ridiculous if you have so many different types of games going (different themes, different settings, different graphics, different genres, etc etc)

Basically it looks like you're trying to reach out to as many 'types' of players as possible, (for a lot of profit?)

instead of focusing on 1-2 games for a very high quality production and high player satisfaction.

These Barbarian games are great (along with Karate Master of course),

but they still need a _Lot_ of work to really be brought to the 'next level',

and so far your side-scrolling new barbarian game that you're working on doesn't seem to really be bringing anything 'new' to the table,

you need to really focus on the movement, controls, animations, etc.

That means focusing on very few games at a time and really trying to make them the best they can be,

Having 5 games of mediocre quality isn't a good thing,

Unfortunately, I can't support that kind of business model (plus I ran into financial difficulty, lol),

so I had to drop my patreon to the dollar tier,

but obviously I want to support you as much as I can.

For now, take the advice of focusing on 1-2 games max, I dont' see how anyone can justify more games being worked on than that, and that's especially with only one (??) actual person working on them.

Anyone else that feels the same please let him know,

We want the next Barbarian game to be great and _AMAZING_,

As good as 'Age of Barbarian' is it's still basically a hack-job,

there's no reason future iterations should be the same..

[Celendrin]

Interesting you're using the word 'they' ?

I mean you mean him and his wife? How many people make up Crian Soft exactly? (as far as I know it's basically him?)

I hope "they're" listening that's what the Patreon is for, lol.

I have a deep fear he's just trying to milk as much money as possible before armaggedon starts, but hmm I 'hope' not..