Patreon Tier Benefits and Release Schedule Changes

Hey everyone,
Mr. MegaloDEV here!

We briefly discussed some of this in the last DEVlog. Starting April 1st, we'll be adding more benefits to the first few support tiers. Aside from adding value, the reasoning is that hopefully this will help serve as a catalyst leading to more overall funding for the project and therefore being able to pay myself. Which of course then means I can spend more time working on the project.

New or changed benefits will be underlined and bold.
Prices are in USD and will stay the same as they currently are.

TOE DIPPER ($3.50)

-Patron only posts and messages.
-One week early access to release-ready builds before they hit the public.
-Access to the Discord.

Snorkeler ($7)

-Patron only posts and messages.
-Two week early access to release-ready builds before they hit the public.
-Access to any internal builds of the game.
-Access to the Discord.

Scuba Diver ($14)

-Patron only posts and messages.
-Two week early access to release-ready builds.
-Access to any internal builds of the game.
-1x voting power on design and content priority polls.
-1080p renders of CGs. (For use outside of the game.)
-Access to the Discord

Deep Sea Diver ($28)

-Patron only posts and messages.
-Two week early access to release-ready builds.
-Access to internal builds of the game.
-2x voting power on design and content priority polls.
-4K renders of CGs. (For use outside of the game.)
-Access to the Discord

---Release Schedule Changes---

So far we've had early access releases on the last day of the month with the public release going out roughly two weeks later. Thanks to all the awesome support we have received this is the plan for how releases will be handled going forward:

• Internal Builds
  In the middle of the month, around the 14th, we will release an internal build of the game for Snorkeler tiers and up. There may or may not be subsequent builds leading up to the Release-Ready Build.
• Release-Ready Builds
  This is the build the public will eventually see. It will release on the last Friday of the month.
• Public Builds
  Share the same content as Release-Ready Builds. Though they might have some hotfixes. They will release two weeks after the Release-Ready Build.

Note: The first In-Production Build of the month and the Public Build will tend to release around the same time or potentially on the same day.
So 0.0.13 will release on April 14th around the same time as 0.0.14 PR1

Note 2: In-Production Builds won't be content complete for that version of the game.

[In other news, we should have a poll open soon for the next Character Design!]