Re: Crisis Point: Extinction - Metroidvania H-game - NEW PUBLIC UPDATE! (August 19th)
It's been a while, so here's another small update, consisting of Alicia's "shooting upward" sprite.
In other news, the update will be coming to the public later than last month. Unfortunately, there's been a large amount of people lately who have been, essentially, 'pirating' the beta by signing up to the patreon and removing their pledge before it's charged. I get that some people following Crisis Point might not have money to contribute - that's why I release the update to everyone after it's been on patreon for a month - but stealing the game from me is killing my motivation to work.
Personally, I don't have much of a problem with pirates. We've all pirated things before, whether it's because we don't have any extra money at the time, or we're unsure of whether it's worth our time or not. But the problem lies in the fact that I get an email
every time someone pledges to me. Seeing that I've got a new patron is exciting; it shows me that I'm doing good work, and that people like what I'm doing enough to throw a couple bucks my way. It's an amazing feeling. Seeing that I've got a new patron, only to find that they've already removed their pledge - because all they wanted was to steal it - is hurtful and demotivating in equal measure.
TL;DR - pirating isn't a big deal, but it's hurtful when you're forced to watch people stealing something you put your time and effort into.
From now on, I will be using a different distribution method on Patreon that will prevent people from being able to 'pirate' the beta, and it unfortunately requires me to delay the update slightly. As such, v.03 will be coming to the public around the end of the month, say, around the 27th rather than the 20th. Sorry for those of you who were looking forward to it.
EDIT: I'd like to clarify my reasoning for pushing the update back a bit, lest anyone think I'm doing it to get back at pirates. I have two main reasons for it - one being a lack of motivation to work because of all of this that's happened, and the other, more important reason being that the Patreon campaign itself is getting updates pushed back. To combat the 'piracy' on Patreon, I won't be distributing the demo to patrons until around the 4th/5th of the month. The only patrons that will receive the update are ones who have had their cards successfully processed, and Patreon doesn't finish that process until a few days into the new month. Because of that, I have to push both public
and Patreon updates back. Sorry for any confusion on that matter.