Release Schedule and Beta Testing (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

Lead developer Altos here. 

Firstly I have some important news that I wanted to let you all know about. As promised, when we reached our second goal on Patreon I told my work I wanted to go part time. However, this didn't go down well with my company and, cut a long story short, I ended up quitting. Unfortunately, I am still contractually obliged to carry on working there until the end of April. However, after that and for as long as I am making enough money on Patreon to scrape a living, this will be my full time job. I had hoped to be earning quite a bit more before taking the plunge but work has forced my hand. Hopefully our campaign will pick up pace after the next update or two. Poor Herdone is going to have to carry on full time with her day job for now.

All this means that you can expect a slightly smaller update for version 0.3 while I finish off at my old job but then expect development to really pick up pace for version 0.4. 

Work is well underway now on version 0.3 and I think we are in a position to announce an expected release date. However, this time we will be doing things slightly differently. In the last release there were a few bugs, for which I apologise. Playtesting a nonlinear game is tricky. You go through fixing things only to find later this has created an error in a part of the code you already checked. This problem will probably get more difficult over time as the game gets ever more complicated. For this reason I wanted to try out releasing a beta update first. 

All $10 Patrons and above will be eligible to participate in Beta testing. Just message us directly if you'd be interested. It would really help us out plus you'll get to see the game a little earlier. I don't intend this to be a replacement for our own error checks and we will still be doing our best to ensure the game is bug free. However, it would be good to have some extra eyes on the problem.

We are aiming to have the beta version ready by the 4th May. With a release to the $5 Patrons (and above) a week later on the 11th May, then a public release a month later on the 11th June.

These are nervous and exciting times for us and once again I want to thank all of our Patrons for your support.

Altos