Major Changes to the Supporter Tiers and More...!

Heya! In the effort to reduce bloat and confusion as well as to introduce new rewards, we're making drastic changes to the supporter tiers!

Don't worry about the new rewards, I'll explain those later, after the tiers overview.

Now, let's go over the changes!

Tier 1 - Basic
You get...
- Sneak peeks. Keep up with the latest development!
- Access to exclusive supporter-only posts.
- WIPs of that month's upcoming art pack release! As well access to the occasional special posts and artwork.
- Vote in polls for certain content.
- Your name listed in the credits section!
- Our undying love and thanks!

Tier 2 - Standard
You get all the rewards of previous tier and...
- Early Access to the latest version of the game, 7+ days earlier!
- Exclusive art pack, every month!
- Access to the art pack archive and folders.

Tier 3 - Plus
You get all the rewards of previous tiers and...
- Special variants of the art pack! Watermark free, native resolution, textless and more!
- Access to the special art pack archive and folders.
- Access to game artwork archives, containing all the art we've used in our games. (2k, 4K resolution or higher, desktop quality backgrounds and artwork)

Now, onto the new rewards!

What is the exclusive art pack?
In the past months, we realized that some members in our team had more to do, while some had less. So instead of idling and have weeks/months go by without any meaningful releases, we've decided to release an exclusive art pack to our supporters!

While it's currently not feasible for us to release a new content update to the game every single month, we can release a set of artwork, it will be either pinups, sketches, concept art, in-universe lore entries or even short comics.

What happens now to the existing tiers?
The current tiers will be redone and relabeled. There are no price changes, so don't worry about that. The other unused tiers will be hidden away.

Whoever has the old supporter tier roles in our Discord channel will have their roles reassigned to match the updated ones, as well as be given a Legacy Supporter role.

NOTE: The roles reassignment is done manually, so there might be mistakes. Please context any of us (users with Dev roles) in the Discord channel for support! We'll fix it immediately! Check out the new and refreshed supporter tiers and see for yourself!
Any bit of support is greatly appreciated and pushes us towards the goal of working on the project full time!

That's all for now! A proper announcement post with the release dates for the game will be coming after I'm done with redoing/relabeling the tiers and making sure everybody has the proper roles given to them in the server.

• Overclock Studios
  

Update News #35 - Version 4.0 and what to expect!
Signs of life! Yes, we are still working on the game! It's just that things have been tough and there's some IRL circumstances that made it even more difficult finding time to work on this. That being said, let's get on with it!

What's coming in v4.0

Changes and improvements to the UI - Brand new new quick menu interface is finished and implemented! This is a highly requested feature, so I'm glad to be able to make it work the way I wanted it to!
- Codex screen user interface improvements, minor tweaks to improve usability.
- Rescaled and tweaked the UI of the Pocket Edition to be much more mobile friendly as the UI was taking up more space on the screen than intended.

Key bindings fix and redone controller support
- Added a screen to check key bindings and controls in-game.
- New key bindings should be similar to typical visual novel style controls now. For example, pressing ESC will open up the Settings menu, instead of opening up the Save menu.
- Controller key bindings are redone for ease of use.
- The controller support is available in the pocket version as well.

Story content v4.0 will contain half of Chapter 2, but it's actually almost as long as the previous chapter, Chapter 1.

The game mechanics and minigame modes as previously discussed and teased will be shelved indefinitely because its really clunky and not fun (thanks to the feedback from our testers). Developing a prototypes for it has taken up more than that I imagined it would, might revisit it in the future if I have the time.

We're currently making huge changes to the supporter tiers, to cut down on general bloat and introduce new rewards. So for the time being, we don't have a release date, but hopefully this post will serve to let you all know what we been up to.

There will be a follow up post (or two) in the coming week/weeks. Where I will be announcing and implementing the supporter tier changes, as well as proper release dates for v4.0!

Note: The weekly supporter exclusive sneak peek posts will be on hold for a while until the new supporter tier changes are implemented/updated!

That's it for now! Please look forward to the release, coming soon!

• Overclock Studios