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Steps to getting a key on Patreon:

Pledge at the Beta Tester tier listed below.

After you pledge for a key at the on LittleNapoleon’s patreon, send LN a message on Patreon or Discord (preferably a direct message, those notify him), he will get back to you asap with a key. You can even poke me here if you pledge and I will poke him to check his DM’s on Patreon if you want to be extra sure he gets the message quickly.

After you get your key feel free to drop the pledge as soon as you want. You should keep access to all the other tier benefits until the end of your pledge, so feel free to check those out.

There’s no automation for this method yet as we’re still working out how we’ll be doing a storefront and who can process payments for it and will still offer purchased to German users. It’s a surprisingly complex topic.

I said that it didn’t sell well enough to justify getting it rated, and that’s true, but getting it rated is very expensive compared to our budget. I will say the game itself is doing great in our eyes, it’s even doing better than we expected on steam and itch. Our real funding comes through Patreon and it will likely always come through Patreon, high quality games take a lot of crowd support to make in niche topics.

No mainstream game studio would ever tackle a game like this, and big studios are usually necessary to make games at the quality people want to see. Big studios or very long time-frames. That means if we want to make a game that’s as high quality as we’d like to see, it takes a significant amount of support, and thankfully we’ve always had that through Patreon.

Really happy we got to see this through to release and make exactly the game we wanted, now I’m looking forward to the next chapters! :B