Update Schedule (Patreon)
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Judge Heath here,
Wanted to let you guys know what the plans on updates are, and how we plan to do this each month.
- Each week day (not Saturday or Sunday) , at various times, you will be able to go to at least one of these streams, and probably most of them, and see our people hard at work.
- On the 1st Day of each month, we release our non-build/non-code rewards, this is when votes will be held, and when the high resolution banner image will be sent out (we'll be sending out two this month, the one for the new build and the one for the first build).
- Around the 15th of each month, we'll try to get the hotfix out for the previous build. We can't promise that this will happen each and every month, it honestly depends on a lot of things. Some months the new build might quite literally be "Put in a few new small events and looooads of bug fixes", but if there is a hotfix coming, then it'll happen sometime between the 10th and the 20th of each month. The download link for this will be sent out to our patrons whose money did clear, and to everyone on our free access list.
- On the 30th of each month, we will release two builds.
- Patron Release: First we'll release the new build with new content, and probably a whole bunch of new bugs that we either didn't find, or didn't have time to fix. As mentioned above, on very rare occasions, this will actually be a build with almost no new content, and just bunches of bug fixes. Warning: This will be moved to the 1st if we encounter significant levels of fake-supporter shenanigans.
- Code Release: We'll send out the codes to everyone of our $5.00+ Backers. Warning: This will be moved to the 1st if we encounter significant levels of fake-supporter shenanigans.
- Public Release: The second released build will be the bug-fixed version of the patron-release build we released the previous month. On the rare months when the patron-release paired with this release is a bug-fix release, you'll get a release that's nearly identical to the patron release, but minus any small content additions we've added.
- Patron Release: First we'll release the new build with new content, and probably a whole bunch of new bugs that we either didn't find, or didn't have time to fix. As mentioned above, on very rare occasions, this will actually be a build with almost no new content, and just bunches of bug fixes. Warning: This will be moved to the 1st if we encounter significant levels of fake-supporter shenanigans.
Hopefully this clears up all of your questions about when things are going to happen, and when you can expect various things. I'm not going to say there aren't going to be months where no updates happen, or when progress seems to slow to a crawl in the visual spectrum as we work on some massive piece of the game, but you will never be left out of the loop, we will never leave you uninformed to try and cover up for our own failings, or otherwise attempt to hide progress, or lack there of, on the game from you guys.
In that vein, I wanted to inform you guys that the hotfix this month is going to be a little late probably. We hoped for the hotfix to be out on the 15th, but IRL issues are preventing Wilson from being able to hand off the latest (almost entirely bug fixed) build to Alniarez so that our primary programmer is able to finish off the bug fixes, and that's not likely to be able to happen until the 15th itself. The Hotfix will almost certainly be out before the 20th barring any truly catastrophic issues.
Edit: It should be noted that if we start to experience SERIOUS drops in patronage between the 30th and the 1st of each month (specifically, if we ever suffer so serious a drop that what should have been a secured and well funded goal is instead not reached), then we'll be moving all patron releases, including codes, to the 1st, so that people who are jumping in and out just to get the build are unable too as easily.