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The Butterfly Dreams
A downloadable dream for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android

As residents of a developing country, we are great fans of community copies. We believe we have arrived at a fair price point for the effort we put in, but we also recognize how cost-prohibitive this may seem. For $3.99, I could live for at least two days in one of the most prominent cities in the country. We have benefited greatly from free games and resources we were given access to, so we want to give back when we could.

Currently, our plan looks like this:

  • 25 Community Copies available upon release (September 2nd)
  • Extra 1 Community Copy added every 10 purchases
  • To avoid abuse, I will add the copies manually while tallying the monthly sales for the team (once a month, any day within the first week)

This is not set in stone, and we will review this arrangement as needed. If sales exceeds our expectation, we may have more frequent community copy update cadence! Anyone who wants to claim a copy can do so while supplies last (or check back to see if we have added more!), no strings attached, no justification needed. We would greatly appreciate leaving us reviews (good or bad), but this is not mandatory.

Love from Southeast Asia,

🦋Requiem🦋

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