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Upcoming release schedule changes

Added 2022-02-03 18:16:29 +0000 UTC

Greetings, my adorable Patrons, and equally lovely visitors (I made this post public because it contains relevant information for non-Patrons). In about a month, there will be an 8-week release difference between the Patron and Public builds, meaning there will be a change in the release schedule, as promised.

Monthly releases:

As you might have noticed in the last few updates, I have been working on a lot of engine stuff that does not neatly fit into small weekly updates. With the game growing, changes to the internals are becoming more complex and time-consuming.

Releasing an update takes a lot of time (building, packing, posting, testing, removing in-progress code). This has started taking up more and more of my time each week, especially when the seasonal stuff is involved, and code needs to be ported to the previous versions for a number of weeks. Making the time investment significantly greater.

For these reasons, and for my own sanity, I will switch to releasing bigger updates less frequently. In this case, once a month, on the first Monday of the month. The spoiler post will be moved to Mondays in-between releases, to inform everyone what is being worked on.

In summary, per 07/03/22:

1 Public release will be released per 1 Patreon build (with a 2 version difference)
Releases will become 1 big monthly update, instead of small weekly ones (Released on the first Monday of the month)
Patreon spoiler posts will now happen on the Mondays when there are no releases

In order to avoid some confusion, I have made a schedule underneath, explaining what will be released when.