New plans (Patreon)

Development Update November 2022

We wanted to give you another update on the current status of development and the plans for the coming weeks.

Public Releases

We are going to release the remaster to the public later this month, which will also include a minor update to version 0.6.1b to fix reported bugs and some minor game details.

After having an internal discussion and looking at the actual reality of things - we decided that we won’t make any difference between the Public Release and the Patreon Release anymore. The full version will inevitably leak anyway, so it doesn’t make much sense to spend extra effort to compile and support two nearly identical releases.

So public releases will be the same game moving forward, but will follow a bit later than the release for our supporters.

That said…

Patreon Releases

Patreons will of course get the newest updates as soon as we are ready to release, including Patreon exclusive content like WiPs, render packs and stuff like that.

Also we feel that the advantages of being a Patreon lie in more involvement, transparency and communication that we will aim to provide.

We are also planning a few polls coming up where we will ask our Patreons for specific feedback and opinion about certain elements or story parts. Don’t worry, we won’t endanger the integrity of our game and the envisioned story, but there are a few things where we hope to incorporate the wishes of our Patreons.

Communication/Transparency

We are aiming to give you a development update every two weeks (latest) so you are up-to-date with the current progress. If there’s anything important to report, we will of course not wait two weeks to tell you. ;)

We of course always value your opinion, suggestions and feedback - and we are more than happy to engage with our Patreons and fanbase on our Discord server.

Christmas

This brings us to the first question where we would value your feedback:

While we are busy preparing the next chapter of the game we were talking about the option to do a special Christmas event exclusively for selected Patreon tiers - much like the Halloween Special that we released.

Now, we released the remastered version and are well aware that the main story does not progress further with this release - so the simple question at the moment is:

Should we do a Christmas Special? or

Should we focus on the main game to move the story forward?

To give you better context what the decision is about:

The Special we think about is something like “Lara’s gift, POV style” and the next chapter of the game would be the full Second Dream and Lara meeting another rather interesting character.

Note:

We use events like this to test a few features and things that will potentially benefit us in  the main game down the road, however as we just did a “special” we don’t want you to get the feeling we lose sight of the main game with doing specials “all the time”.

Closing comment

As always we greatly appreciate and value your support, feedback and patience - and we hope to give you the right level of transparency that is called for.

Thank your from the whole team

The PixDES team