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Patreon Improvements Discussion
🕑 Added 2020-12-05 21:29:19 +0000 UTCI'm looking to expand upon my Patreon and provide some more benefits to my subscribers. What would you like to see posted more? What are some benefits you'd like to see added?
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MNL
I've seen early build releases as a common thing among other Patreons, though I'm not too fond of that option. I might try to aim to have some in-game benefits for supporters—additional outfits being the most obvious. The supporter benefits would be Patreon-exclusive until release as I want all the content available for everyone for the full release. I want to try getting into a monthly release schedule starting next year, so I might do end-of-month polls for people to vote on what feature they would like to see prioritized. I might also try to do some more behind-the-scenes content; I'm planning on writing up a retrospective of the past six months later this month.
Yeah I don't think it should be anything too big, just a small bonus here or there to entice people. Whatever you think you have time for. Other than that, I know a popular option for Patreon is releasing builds early for supporters or making a public version go up a week or two later than the supporter release.
MNL
I like using Twitter for smaller, incremental updates and I like being open with development so people can see activity. I make most of the discussion public on itch.io as it has the larger audience. What prompted this discussion was me not being sure what to save for Patreon. I have the functionality for in-game Patreon benefits, but I couldn't decide what to lock behind the paywall and I want to avoid alienating non-patrons. Maybe once I get content flowing, I can put in some bonus outfits.
I know you're super active about progress updates on Twitter so maybe a few in here as well for the people who may not use Twitter. Otherwise seeing things back on track is really great. Stuff like polls and ideas/planned features you're having are great as well. As far as benefits go, being a part of the discussion is always nice, and maybe some small in-game things like a bonus clothes set or something if that is possible.
