SAILERIUS'S PROFILE

It would be rather difficult to capture decision-making and branching story in a comic.

I understand. I'm being as open as I can be now, but I haven't been thinking about anything other than finishing up VSA EP1 lately.

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Even though I know that I shouldn't trust you when it comes to dates, I'm still wondering, is there a rough ETA on when the Kickstarter rewards that is the anthology and art-book/guide will be delivered in PDF-form? Is it before Ep1, after Ep1 or after a couple of episodes? Just wondering.

It'll definitely be after EP1. I'm still undecided as to whether or not it'll be before or after EP2. I'm entertaining the thought of waiting until EP2 is out because that means substantially more content in the artbook/guide. EP2 introduces a huge number of major characters, so having its content included would make the artbook much more attractive.

Assuming that each episode will cost 10 USD, that Ep 8 will be split into two episodes and 3 arcs with 3 episodes in each, I think that 25 USD for a bundle of an arc seems to be a fair deal, both for those who discovers the project along the way and those who has been buying each episode as they come along.

Yeah, that's more or less the idea. Nothing's set in stone of course, but that's our current thinking.

When you on the Kickstarter page asked what platforms the backers would want to see the game on first, I said that I wanted the PC version most but I've changed my mind and I want to take the Android version as my KS reward (long story short, I don't technically own any of my laptops (so almost all my PC games are on Steam)), is it too late to change or will you ask that later on.

You have plenty of time to change your mind. When the time comes, I'm going to send out an official questionnaire on Kickstarter where I ask details about reward fulfillment.

With regard to your third comment:
I can't say anything that's not in some way a spoiler, so you'll just have to wait and see. Your attitude is exactly right, though. Players of Contention are ideally going in with heavy skepticism and wondering how it all fits together. That's the mindset I wrote the story against.

I think you did misinterpret my comment, though. I didn't mean that the cast wouldn't be likable to players of Contention, rather that some of the characters in Contention were not necessarily meant to be liked. I thought it was an interesting experiment at the time but it seemed to have turned some people off from the story, so this time around, you're actually meant to like all the protagonists.

For the most part.

Wow, you noticed that fast! Nothing has changed under the hood, but we're now planning to group the episodes into three sets for marketing purposes. The reasons why are mostly psychological.

Each episode is probably going to be around $10 USD and will have enough content to justify that price tag. If you buy them all as they come out, it seems like a pretty reasonable deal. But if you're a newcomer to the game and it's already all out, the thought of spending $80 or $90 (we're considering splitting EP8 into two since it is enormous) for the full game is pretty outrageous, so we'd have to offer it at a discount. Although I'm not opposed to discounts, I think lowering the price to $60 for the whole set would be undercutting the value of the game and also kind of a slap in the face to anyone who was supporting us by buying each episode as it comes out.

To make it more palatable, we're going to offer three bundled sets, one for each major plot arc. So after EP3, EP4 will mark the start of "VSA2." Since each new plot arc is accompanied by a shift in tone and a jump forward in time, it also gives us the opportunity to take the time we'll need to create new character art.

Again, nothing's changed under the hood except the way we'll be naming it.