March Plans! - Early Access Wave 3 and Beyond (Patreon)

First of all, let me apologize for not posting in a bit. Some personal life stuff has gotten in the way, and Chapter 7 has had some major issues that have really delayed my progress. And on top of that I got sick right at the end of February and have not been able to sleep at night. So it's been REAL fun.

Regardless I wanted to discuss what's happening this month.

Step 1 is to finish Chapter 7, which I've been saying for a while now. The long story short is that I wanted to code something that was well and above my station. And if I was smarter, I would have cut my losses, scrapped the idea, changed how the miniboss worked, and everything would have been done and released last month.

Unfortunately, I'm a stubborn idiot, and I tried to force this to work despite my skill issue. It's been a complete mess and a total nightmare. I'll talk about it in more detail after the chapter is released, but for now I'll hold my tongue so that some players can at least properly experience the surprise.

I expect things to be done very soon. So, once it's done, what is the plan? As I've stated in the past, Early Access Wave 1 and 2 would be bundled together, at a smaller price point and available for all paid patrons.

Wave 3 however will be a transition point. Wave 3 will be sold at the games full price. You'll pay once, and you'll get every update until the game is complete, as well as post release updates. So, the big question then becomes, how much is it going to cost? I think I've settled on $9.99 as the games price.

I think that's a fair price considering the whole state of things right now. I'm planning on adding this build to Itchio as well, possibly under a new page to keep the main one easily visible on the platform. But I know not everyone likes going through Patreon, and that it's easier to follow build updates on itch, so I'm looking into prepping a page specifically for the paid version of the game.

Chapter 7 had some very experimental code ideas that really fucked me over in terms of making efficient progress. The same will not be true for the remaining chapters. I am eager to finish this project before Summer for some personal life reasons. Don't be surprised if updates start coming much quicker from this point onward.

As always let me thank you for all your support and patience. It truly means the world.