Patron Update - July 2025

Hey there gang! I just wanted to say welcome to the newer patrons and give a big thanks to those that have continued to support my efforts! I know posts here are kinda sparse, but trust that I have been continuing to work diligently!

I felt it might be worthwhile to go over a few things.

I intended for this patreon page to mainly function as a tip jar for which people who are interested in the stuff that I make can chip in a little bit to help out, with some nice bonuses along the way. The game is still a long ways out from an Alpha stage where I would want to open it up for supporter playtesting, and thus I reserve this page for posting mainly only significant updates and of course, when I upload a new devlog to the youtube page.

That said, I have been working continuously and have even been streaming on twitch, so if you ever want to hang out live and watch the sausage get made, you can follow me there:
https://www.twitch.tv/nameshiftgames

Additionally, be sure to follow me on twitter and bluesky because I do post more granular updates as I am working on stuff. Those are also good platforms to interact with me because patreon is somewhat cumbersome.

@nameshift.bsky.social‬

@NameShiftGames

BIG IMPORTANT

Now that I have completed more of the game's central systems and components, I have finally gotten to a place where I have been writing and implementing NPC interactions and questlines, which means I can start offering one of the more significant patreon benefits!

If You, yes YOU would like to be immortalized as a horse NPC in Horse Game 2, and you are a HG2 Beta Tester tier patron or higher, PLEASE step right up. you can comment either here or in the community chat whatever you would like (as long as its not heinous / illegal / distasteful)
come up with a name, any dialogue, design your own horse OC, the sky is the limit. The more the merrier. and I will do my best to put it into the game. if you just want to say "hi" thats fine, or if you write a whole ellaborate 7000 branching dialogue questline, thats great too.

Once again, I just wanted to say thanks so much for the ongoing support, and more to come very soon!