Heads Up! !!!Tier Changes Incoming!!! Please read! (Patreon)

Hey everybody! So as I mentioned in the last post, I was going to address some issues with the Patreon, stuff I want to get addressed before the first of next month.

So my original intention with the tiers was to have more content for each tier the more you paid, more tutorials/behind the scenes stuff. However as it has turned out, making content for patreon has taken a lot more time/energy than I expected, and with all the time I already put into game dev, which can be quite a laborious and time-consuming process as it is, I don’t think it’s feasible for me to support multiple tiers with different kinds of content. I definitely can (and want to!) keep going at the pace I am at, posting updates about games, putting out the occasional tutorial or behind-the-scenes write-up as well as sending you all links to early builds of games, but it starts to get sort of hard to imagine how I’d begin to offer more than that to people who are willing to pay more, because at that point I’d be doing more work on non-related game stuff than I’d like.

So things are mostly going to be the same, but I will be editing the higher tier benefits to reflect the fact that the content I put out for Patreon is going to be for people from the lowest to the highest tier. The only distinction between the tiers will be the order and title you receive in shout-outs put into my games (during the credits) and at the end of video content I put out.

For those of who pledged in the higher tiers prior to this announcement: You will be enshrined forever as a Yames Elder One and you will get special attention during shout outs or whenever I list the people who contributed to making my games possible.

For those of you who have still have commissions coming their way: They are still coming! But in the future I am not going to be creating digital art for $50 dollar patrons.

One last note about patron-only games: Going forward, patrons will only receive a key to a patron-only game if they pledged prior to it being available for patrons. So if you pledged before Family Vacation is available to patrons, you will get a key. After keys are distributed, any patrons I get will not get a key for Family Vacation, but the next game in the patron-only games when keys are distributed to patrons. This adds a measure of exclusivity to people who “got in on the ground floor” and believed in me enough to support my work.

So, TL;DR: Things are going to mostly stay the same, but I am editing tier benefits in order to be more transparent about what I can deliver.

Thanks so much for all your support!

-Yames