Charlie, The Steak
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Finally - Charlie is out on iOS!
🕑 Added 2024-12-31 09:31:42 +0000 UTCHi all,
I know it's been a long time since the last post, so before we get to the good part, let me start with an apology.
Apology
I imagine a lot of you might have lost hope for Charlie already, or you think that this Patreon was a scam or you're angry with me for not updating you. To be honest, I don't blame you - my communication has been poor, progress was extremely slow and many of the promises I made were not fulfilled.
There were a lot of things happening in my life in the past months, both good and bad, but it meant my attention was spread a lot and my time was very limited. I can give you a hundred more reasons why it was or wasn't possible sooner and you might choose to believe me or not, so instead I'd rather apologise and ask for your forgiveness. I have failed in managing the community around Charlie, for informing you guys more regularly, for holding true to my timelines and valuing you enough.
So, for all of this, I deeply and sincerely apologise and I hope that today's update can make up for a tiny bit of your faith in Charlie.
Charlie has been released on iOS today! 🥩
I've got some time to work on Charlie recently and I didn't want to post another update without some kind of "hard proof" that things are moving forward.
I am very happy to announce that Charlie was released on iOS today in all markets and regions! 🎉 It should become fully available within 24 hours to everyone, so if it doesn't yet show up in your region please give it a few hours until it shows up - some people might see it sooner than others, but everyone will see it wihin 24 hours.
Here's a direct link to the iPhone version:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/charlie-the-steak/id644918861
Here's a direct link to the iPad version:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/charlie-the-steak-hd/id644917768
For everyone supporting (or who supported in the past) at Medium tier or higher I will be sharing the codes to unlock the full version of the game as promised. The codes are unique to every person, so they can be blocked in case they leak publicly, so please do not post them anywhere online. It is OK if you share it with your family members or close friends by putting the code in on their iPhone/iPad.
Just to note (as some people still keep writing this), there was never any official Android port of Charlie - so the game is NOT available officially on the Play Store. As mentioned in one of my last updates, we did start working on an Android port, but more on that in the next section.
Android status
As you know, I hired an external engineer with the Patreon money to help me build the Android port. I hoped this would resolve the issue with me not having enough time and allow us to get an Android port of Charlie sooner.
Unfortunately, it turned out the progress on the developer's side was very slow and the cost was getting much higher than originally anticipated. Earlier in Decemeber I had to pause the developer work and there was nothing done on the Android port since then. In all honesty, I didn't have the energy and time to find a new engineer before the holiday time, so I plan to revisit it again in January.
I will do what I can to make sure it happens, but I don't want to promise anything right now as it depends on who I am able to find to work on this and how much time I will be able to dedicate to the onboarding of the developer.
That said, I am not giving up on this yet and I will try to see it happen in the next year. Please, do not take the Android status as a request for support on Patreon. I will be working on that no matter if there's a Patreon or not - I just don't want to promise a timeline. But more on the below.
Future of Patreon
I am currently contemplating stopping the (paid) Patreon entirely as I feel like I'm unable to provide any more value to you after the iOS launch today before the Android port launches (which could take a few months at least).
I never had any intentions of making anyone feel scammed and the comments appearing here and on reddit are making me feel very sad, so I think the Patreon might be doing more harm than good to anyone.
Let me know your thoughts on this topic, if you agree then I'll stop the Patreon in January and continue the work with whatever I can afford for the external developer and the rest I'll do myself.
Please, remember that you can unsubscribe at any point and if you have been charged recently you request a refund and I'll approve it.
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Uff, that's it for today folks. It's a rather long, but very overdue update with some hopefully positive news for all of you on iOS.
Lastly, I'd like to wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. I really hope 2025 will be the best year yet for all of us.
Cheers,
Dom
Comments
Chicken nugget
I joined yesterday please give me one
Chicken nugget
I just joined again please send me mine
Violet Joss
i already sent a email and still nothing happened
Eduardo Tulod Jr
Well I guess you are the first one to help me
Mousemasters
LETS GOOOOOO MEATY MICHEAL FOREVER 🥩
Andres 99
Alright!, and btw did that one drawing on the AMA make it to the game?
Dominik Hádl
Unfortunately it seems there are issues for some people, even though it works perfectly on my phone and tablet. I will try to fix it during this weekend.
Dominik Hádl
I will try, but not sure it will be that easy.
Dominik Hádl
All codes were sent by now, so they should arrive no later than a few hours from now to everyone. The codes were sent to the email address associated with your Patreon account. Please check your spam folder in case you can't find the email. If you haven't received your code, please write to me at support@dynamicart.cz with your info about your Patreon username and email address and I'll help you.
Rakurai
We’ll wait for our codes! Thanks Dom
Yellowstone999
And sharing
Yellowstone999
Also Mr dom? Will you fix the In app purchases?
Matej
Nice, i have played the new version and i have found some bugs you forgot to fix
Andres 99
Btw are you gonna take down the rip offs on the App Store?
Yellowstone999
W
Kornelia Kwasniewski
Dom, this guy made a Charlie the steak port to android and he is almost finished, download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OSUalVp-Op35PlaAgF6ZdnLw9cBkvEzk/view?pli=1 And the Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CharlieTheSteak/s/wIf8dOJgrt (It was made in pocket code.)
Andres 99
THANK YOU SO MUCH DOM WE MISSED YOU
Dominik Hádl
I'm processing them now, if all goes well then it's today, worst case this weekend. Patreon is a bit stupid with how you can send messages to people, so I might have to send it over email instead. But let me see what I can do :)
Tristan Klose
when will codes be given out and how?
