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New donation only builds

A topic by jacobe21 created Jul 07, 2022 Views: 3,377 Replies: 3

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jacobe212 years ago

I purchased the game in October 2021 back before the price increase. In my library, it shows the latest donation build as 0.2.8.a for Windows released back on January 10, 2022.

Is there a newer donation only build available? I've read some other people having access to newer builds. However, I wasn't sure if those were from Patreon or here on Itch.io. If those builds are only available on Patreon, would there be any similar option in a non-monthly subscription way? I'm happy to support you further, but I really don't like monthly subscriptions - I prefer yearly if it must be subscription. Thanks.

CMaxo2 years ago

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.

esiacm2 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 From what I can tell I'm not sure if there ever was one and that wording is really outdated.