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Weekly Topics & Monthly Release Schedule
🕑 Added 2021-04-16 05:16:22 +0000 UTCSo, there we have it! From now on, we'll aim for monthly releases. For anyone that might have voted for the quarterly releases option, I will make sure to not disappoint you with this method:
- Every month, we'll release a new version of the game. To make the public release at the beginning of every month, we'll have a release for $5+ Patrons at the middle of the month (for example around 15th of May), then a release for $1 Patrons one week after the $5+ one (for example around 22nd of May), followed by a public release that's right at the beginning of the next month.
- Every 3 months, I'll spend one week or more of what would otherwise be normal development time on fixing any subtle bugs & polishing some things in the game.
This way, for anyone that preferred the quarterly update option, they can wait for a more polished update that can happen every 3 months, leaving the monthly update an option for anyone who wants to see what's new in the game.
More than that, to encourage public discourse and a way to get your input on the most immediate future content (in addition to making it more exciting), we've come up with the idea of Weekly Topics! Details below:
- On our Discord, we'll have a weekly public discourse on the new #weekly-topic channel. Because we'll have Dreams in the next update, this is a way for you to not only add your input on any content you might want to see in these dreams, but more than that, it can make it more exciting because you actually have something to look forward to in the next update, something you might have actually contributed to.
- At the end of every weekly topic (the Dreams one might end around Tuesday next week), I'll make a public post in which I will lay out my plans for that content by the next update, together with a bunch of intros for those dreams.
- For now, what we have regarding this topic is in the attachments of this post, the top diagram. I will not go into it in this post, but I will do so in the next post which may be on Sunday.
- After a weekly topic ends, I will post an announcement for the next one as it begins. We might extend the Dreams one a little bit more, because there was no post announcing it.
In summary, first iteration of v0.2.0 should be released on:
- 15th-16th May for $5+ Patrons.
- 22nd-23rd May for $1 Patrons.
- 1st-2nd June for Public Players.
There may not be so much new content during the first iteration because we're just getting into the new schedule plan, but because I will make sure that old saves work, you will not need to repeat content to see the newest one.
