The progress reports are supposed to be publicly available? They aren't. I assumed they were intended to be limited to paid members, so I didn't realize there was an issue that needed to be brought to anyone's attention.
Also, I'm pretty sure a lot of people (myself included) stopped checking your Patreon after the year plus period of zero posts. But maybe there were posts that we just couldn't see, but you thought we could.
The latest one aren’t but the old ones should all be publicly available. They are set to be publicly available after 90 days. There is never a year of zero post, as we post a report pretty much every month. I’ve just checked by looking at the patreon without logging into the site, and I can still see posts from as far as 2019.
Even when the posts are for members only, they should still show up with a button says “Join to unlock” or something similar, which should indicate that there is something active going on.
- Punipen
I mean, the year of zero plus posts would have been long before 2019. Probably like 2015? I checked multiple times and there wasn't a single new post, locked or otherwise, and then I stopped looking. Then several years later you release this version, which is dramatically different from what I played before.
The end of 2014 was when we first started Patreon. Before that we were posting reports on blogspot which were publicly available as well. I’ve just checked again and there were 66 posts in 2015 alone, mostly because we released two reports per month (and in two languages). Maybe Patreon worked differently back then and hid the posts from non-member? If that’s the case then I’m glad it’s not like that anymore.
Still, though, even when people missed stuff in 2015, we were more active on Twitter and other social media sites back then. We always made a new post when there was a build, pretty much every year. It’s really hard to imagine why people would think that the game is dead or we have stopped working on the game. We got too many messages on these social media sites for a small team such as ours, and we had to shift our time to focus on working on the game and sites such as itch, Patreon and our forum instead.
- Punipen
