Content/priority poll - Updates

The third content poll was a while ago, so I figured it was time to give you all a little update on the progress of the bigger changes.
- Emily

Competitions

I had hoped to start the competitions in January, but because I had overlooked one fact I'm now unable to run them. For now. To skip the legal talk running a competition would basically mean having to put up personal details of myself on the internet, which, as you might understand, is something I'd rather not do.
Having said that, this is only the case if I provide the prizes, which is something I looked forward to doing. It was a way to give back to the community in a way. But if other people/companies sponsor the competitions it ends up being their information that is up for display.

So does this mean there won't be any competitions? For now, yes. I'll do my best to see if I can work with some other companies, but while my site is definitely huge I do wonder if it'll be enough for a partnership like this, let alone one I'd feel comfortable with as well. So we'll see.
My sincere apologies for not figuring this out sooner, I should've done so before asking people to vote for it in a poll.

Sister site

So, the sister site. I've been working a lot on it, but I still feel like there's so much left to do and that I'm behind on it. But that's just a side effect of working for yourself I suppose.
I've got 26 songs so far, but I'd like to have 40 of them ready before I launch the site. I've also worked and finishing images for a dungeon creator, a moon/space base creator, random space encounters, tarot cards, random solar system generator (and more), wrote a fair amount of guides, created some DIY projects which can now be turned into guides (like dice bags) and a bunch of other stuff. I'll also be able to use some of the assets in some of the current tools on this site, like the faces of the family tree creator, for other projects I've got planned (like a random shop generator).

All of the current guides and tools on this site will also be moved to this new site, so technically there'll be a lot of content already, but I want more before putting it online. Not to mention not all of the before mentioned content is finished yet. As far as an estimate goes I really can't tell, so I'll refrain from making any guesstimates right now.

I've also bought gotten better virtual instruments. I'm paying for these, but they're well worth it. So it'll hopefully mean better songs in the future. I know you haven't exactly been given a full song by me yet, but I like to keep them a surprise.
But to give you a further taste of what's to come and to show the difference between the free virtual instruments I had and the new ones I'm using now, here are a few more tasters:

Old versions:

Updated versions:

New songs:

Not all songs will be updated to the new instruments, some would simply require too much time and in some cases too many changes due to differences in instruments, but as you can hear from the differences between the old and updated versions everything sounds more clearer and more realistic. Now all that's left is me becoming better at all this.