Post by CMaxo in New donation only builds

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To put things in a clearer way, there's now a "experimental" stage and "public" stage where only Patreons fans (a.k.a. subs) have access to the experimental stage and, if we follow the point given on the Patreon's page, the public (those who purchased on itch.io) gets access to the "experimental" stage 1 month later when it turns into "public" stage.

That's, at least, the point that seems to be explained on the Patreon's page:

[Experimental], [Rough] and [Release] builds of our original games at least a month before public releases.

then later, it's written :

Public builds don't do the current visuals and features justice but you can play them on NewGrounds and Itch.io!

If I'm wrong, then I'm sorry. That's all that I could find.

Noboty2 years ago

That explains the patrons and public, but doesn't quite explain where the donators fall into that and what versions that they get. From the explanation you copied, it seem they are getting the same builds as the ones who did not pay. We really need the developers to clarify this.

TheAceSim2 years ago (1 edit)

You're not a donor, patrons are the donators. "Experimental" and "Rough" builds are for them. Itch.io users are considered public since we bought the game. So we only get "Release" builds. Technically the new update was gonna go straight to Release but there were a few major bugs needed fixing first.

From what the developer said on discord the release build was coming straight to itch.io with no month delay. From what I can tell I'm not sure if there ever was one and that wording is really outdated.