Patreon support and Brutal Fate

Hello everyone.

First, for those who are not aware, I will no longer be able to release Brutal Fate's Early Access and it was moved out to late Q3 2021 (probably late September).
You can read more about it here: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/1409460/view/2926740555241216608

Now, I want to talk about the Patreon support, how it affects the game, and Patreon rewards.

Patreon Rewards

I want to remember that my early year promise still stands and ANYONE who supported me with a lifetime contribution of $20 or more is entitled to one Steam key of Brutal Fate as soon as it hits Early Access. Either if you donated once this amount, or continually donated $2 for 10 months, its irrelevant. Paypal contributions also counts.

When the time comes, Steam will generate me a handful of keys (which are distributed to people like Kickstarter backers) that I will be able to give away. I will have a limited amount, and I will  try to distribute as many of them to you for people who contributed more than $20.
It will be like this, after I give everyone a key, I will check if I have enough keys to give everyone who donated $40 a second key. Then I will check if its possible to give a third key to everyone who gave $60, and so on, until I have no more keys left. You will be able to gift these keys to your personal friends and play together since the game will support multiplayer through LAN, Hamachi or Zandronum.

Those of you who have been loyally supporting me for years on a row, I will find special ways to thank you. I will try to get you reviewer keys (which bypasses Steam's time lock and can be downloaded and played before launch).

For those of you who cancelled support for any reason, if you reached a lifetime contribution of $20 or more, you are still entitled to keys. If you are ever to cancel your support for any reason, please, send me a personal message first and leave your e-mail address so I can contact you later.


How Patreon's Money is Being Used

Your support so far has allowed me to work full time on my game without ever looking for sidejobs.  To have my basic living expenses covered  I need R$1700,00 a month. ($350 current US Dollars, $380 to keep a safe net in case of sudden valuation of the Brazilian currency). Money that goes behind this are being spent into the project itself. I'm commissioning artists to make the boxart and concept arts of the game, voice actors, sound plugins and audio packs, professional SFX.

Also soon I will take a trip to the gun range and get some good meaty weapon sound effects. After the game is launched we will also cut and release the raw recordings to be used for free by the indie dev community.

I have received proposals from about 5 publishers so far, but I politely declined them. I don't feel comfortable with taking the development of this game into a more corporate way and I would like to keep it a complete independent game as long as possible. (I could seek a publisher on post-release to help me with marketing and maybe porting the game to consoles, but not for now.)

The longer you can keep providing support, the better the game will turn out.