Patreon

Kittychanley
By Kittychanley in Discussion,
I'm currently looking into setting up a Patreon page for TerraFirmaCraft.   https://www.patreon.com/     I'm curious what kind of rewards you, the potential patrons, would like to see and would motivate you to potentially make a pledge. Because TFC2 is still in very very early development, the rewards from patreon page would be primarily aimed at development of the current Beta TFC, and not TFC2. The proceeds from this page would be split between our development staff.   Here are some ideas of possible patron rewards: Your name on our credits page: http://terrafirmacraft.com/credits.html Direct access to the current development builds of the next hotfix. In essence, you would become an official beta tester for new features. While TFC is open source, and therefore anyone can compile the latest development build to test it, we do not offer direct support for those who do so. This reward in essence would be us periodically compiling the in-progress code and sending it directly to patrons who could then play around with new features or bug test if they desire. It is important to note that these builds will be very unstable, and patrons will be highly encouraged to back up their saves before using them. The ability to guest-star in an official TFC tutorial video, that will be posted on the wiki, such as my Propick Video. Access to a patron-only TFC server, that is either running the current stable release, or the latest possibly unstable development build. While I cannot speak for our other developers, I would personally make sure to periodically hop on to this server and play along with the patrons. Personalized Q&A. Patrons would be able to ask the developers almost any question (within reason) and get a personalized response back from a developer. Periodic streams or videos of our development, testing, and documentation processes. See behind the scenes what all goes into making TFC and maintaining its wiki. If you have any other ideas for patron rewards, feel free to post them below. The only reward that I currently can think of that would likely never be added, or only added with a very high price tag would be for you to suggest a feature (within reason) that would then be added to the game.   After looking at the different options for a patreon page, I am currently thinking that we would set it up to be a monthly pledge, rather than a per-content pledge due to the way we currently handle development of the mod. A monthly pledge system would also be great motivation for us to push forward with development and work towards stricter deadlines so we can feel that we are earning your donations.   This post has been promoted to an article   Edit: For those of you who would like to instead make an individual one-time donation to our developers, all of our donation buttons can be found on this page:   http://wiki.terrafirmacraft.com/Donate
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