The $400 Milestone | Patreon Poll #11 (Patreon)

Hey Patrons!

I’m taking a slightly different direction with this poll, instead of content in Shattered, you guys will be voting for content on the Patreon! I’ve come up with what I think are three good rewards that could be unlocked at future milestones, and I’m going to let you guys decide how they should be prioritized.

The winner(s) of this poll will help determine what rewards I offer at higher milestone amounts!

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Please vote for all the options that you like, not just for your one favourite! I allow multiple votes as it means that a higher proportion of people will end up voting for the winning choice. It also lets me gauge interest and lets polls be a bit more flexible, I might choose to implement the top 2 choices in some polls for example.

All patrons are encouraged to share their opinion by commenting and voting, but currently only the votes from Golden+ Supporters are counted when determining a poll winner. Votes from Shattered Supporters are worth double!

Physical & Digital Loyalty Rewards

Loyalty rewards would be physical or digital rewards given after you’ve been a patron for long enough. I want these rewards to work with any patron tier, so that they’re purely about loyalty. That does limit how much I can spend on them, but there are still some good options:

• A simple thank you email might show up at 3 or 6 months of patronage. While I appreciate that such a message is a bit basic, it doesn’t have a per-patron cost attached to it, which is what limits at a lot of things at this amount of time. If I ever have any digital goods that I can offer (wallpapers, etc.), they could also be given at this tier.
• Smaller merch items like pins and postcards could be mailed to Patrons once they reach a higher threshold, perhaps at 1 year or later. Enamel pins in particular look great with pixel art, and so something like a pin with the Shattered Pixel logo could work nicely.
• If I ever offer merch for sale, then large merch discount coupons could be given at 1 year+ as well. Generally, I think rewarding Patrons with discounts is a bit scummy (“Thanks for your patronage, now give me more money!”), but if the discount is limited I could look into making it large enough so that I’m essentially selling the merch at cost.

Expansions to Existing Rewards

There are several things that could be done to deepen the existing rewards that the Patreon offers:

• In addition to the regular Patreon weeklies, I could also do a Patreon monthly post for $10+ patrons. These posts would be more speculative and talk about longer-term plans that I have for the game. In many ways this would expand on what I already occasionally share in the $10+ Patreon discord channel.
• The discord could be expanded with new channels or functionality, such as voice chat or fun bots. I’ve generally run a very tight ship for the public Pixel Dungeon discord, but as the Patreon discord is much smaller-scale I feel more confident offering features that would normally make me worry about discussion quality on the public discord.
• Extending the livestreams is also a good option. Depending on what people want to see I could easily lengthen the existing Q&A stream, do a couple side-streams where I play games, or whatever else people want to see.

Patreon Builds of ShatteredPD

I want to state up front that these WOULD NOT GIVE EARLY ACCESS TO UPDATES! I’ve never paywalled content before and at least for the duration that I’m developing Shattered I’d like to keep it that way.

Instead, these would be pared down releases that demonstrate new content I’m working on in a way that doesn’t let the player play a full game. As an example, for tier-2 talents, the game might spawn the player at the start of the prison with generic pre-set gear, and only allow play up to Tengu. These builds of the game would also install separately from regular Shattered and would not share save data. Some weeklies would contain links to Patreon builds, depending on if it makes sense for where I’m currently at in development. Builds would probably also be limited to $5+ patrons, though I haven't made a final decision on this yet.