The Collector FAQ (Current Project!)
Q: What is The Collector?
A: The Collector is a game where you play as me, Flora! I'm one of several kidnapping victims who has been forced to take on a new identity as a Kitsune girl in her kidnapper's supposed utopia.
Discover who each victim was before, who they are now, and try to change your future in a world where the abuser makes all the rules
+ Deals with topics of trauma and surviving abuse
+ LGBTQ+ Positive
+ A portion of all support will go towards fighting Human Trafficking
Q: No but like... what IS it?
A: Oh! It's a visual novel. It's like a novel, but with visuals/sounds/choices. Let me run down some other quick info while we're here...
+ Playable on PC/Mac/Linux
+ Approx 40 hrs of gameplay
+ Available on Steam and Itch.io upon release
+ You can play the current version of the game TODAY by joining my Patreon at the $10 tier.
Q: How long have you been working on this/ how far are you in development?
A: We started in October of 2018, and will be finished with the full first draft mid June. The rough release date for the entire project is mid 2020.
Q: Are you doing this alone or working with a team?
A: I have a team of writers, people I commission for backgrounds and music, and a friend who helps with programming.
Heart - Head Writer, Sprite Artist, Programmer. Anything not done by other people.
Lexi - CoWriter
Harken - CoWriter
Cedar - Worldbuilding Assistant (Honorary Yokai Professor (°◡°♡))
Vui - Background Artist (Commissioned)
his deviantart - www.deviantart.com/vui-huynh
Plasterbrain - Music/ SFX (Commissioned)
her soundcloud - soundcloud.com/plasterbrain
her own Visual Novel Project - pizzagame.party/
Eliza - Programming Helper! (She helps me when I get stuck T﹏T)
her twitter - twitter.com/elizagamedev
her game - store.steampowered.com/app/420…
Q: If I wanted to support this project, how can I do that?
A: Take an interest, ask questions, or tell people you think would be interested in something like this!
And if you have the means, support me over on Patreon www.patreon.com/heartgear
Everything above covering my bills goes towards hiring artists, covering production costs, and supporting warinternational.org/
And that's everything! If you have any other questions, please reach out to me here or... better yet, ping Heart over on the Heartworks Discord
Thanks for stopping by!
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(15) Sketch Requests opening [at 5p EST]
Just a reminder that (15) Sketch Request slots will be opening today at 5p EST over on Patreon.
If you are a Knight or higher and want to submit a request, be sure to pop in and leave one before the openings fill up!
This month's theme is:
°˖✧Canonically Gay!✧˖°
These will be 20 minute sketches I do every Monday. They may or may not include bondage (°◡°♡) But they will all be totally, completely and wonderfully °˖✧Gay!✧˖°
Anthro Desserts (Taking Suggestions)
January's request stream is now open for suggestions!
Will last till Thursday night at 11:59p EST.
This month we'll be anthropomorphizing tasty desserts into cute grills (°◡°♡)
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If you're a knight and you wanna make a suggestion, make sure to stop by the suggestion post
If you're not a knight yet, consider becoming one!
It's only $10 a month and it helps me pay the bills and work on the things I'm passionate about, like The Collector!
Heartbeat - Back from Surgery!
おはようございます!!
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It's kind of hard to believe that. Recovery has been long and there have been hard days. And yet here we are!
I've been putting in half days for the past two weeks, and am working to ramp back up... but it'll probably be another month until I'm totally back to where I was. That said, I will continue to do my best! (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ
A few notes...!
+ We finished writing the rough draft of Episode 5 of "The Collector"
+ The Collector Game is now up to Episode 4 (Text only for now)
+ I'll be getting uploads going back onto Deviantart starting today
+ I'll be working to finish up the November RS
+ We'll be gearing up to get into the Captain Round Robin in January
If you want to keep in touch with me more directly, consider joining the Heartworks Discord
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Gerudo Link - DA Release
The three month patreon buffer is now past so I will be uploading new Gerudo Link illustrations Tues-Friday until the project is totally up here.
www.deviantart.com/heartgear/g…
I've updated this post...
...but am leaving it up as a reminder that the Hi Res files, including tons of other patreon exclusive art, is available to everyone at the $5 level! If you enjoyed my art and want to help sustain me as an artist, that $5 pledge goes a long way
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Thanks everyone! Have a great week
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-Heart