i think you could work out a nice patreon, actually.
you could have tippers gain advanced access to updates, or beta material, whatever's on your plate that you need direct input on ( like these sprites, for instance )
you could have a regualr build here on itchio, and a " nightly " build for patroen users only, that's how the porn game devs do it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean, some of those I could probably manage to do but there are issues with this:
1. It adds more things to think about which definitely won't help as I already have 5 trillion things to think about.
2. Releasing beta or advanced access stuff is not really something I'm keen on doing because once I put something out there, for example: something I don't want to show everyone yet, then it's very likely going to be everywhere, like screenshots, maybe a video, anything.
And this ruins the surprise for everyone, and I've stated many times I'm not a fan of spoilers.
And sure, once I release the game, everything will be out there anyway but I just don't want stuff out there before it's actually finished unless I post it myself.
3. Only using patreon for sprite feedback and things like that kind of makes my discord server less valuable as that is where I do this stuff right now.
By nightly builds, do you mean after the game has been released or before it's fully released?
If you mean before, then #2 applies here as well.
So there you have a few of the problems I have with these things.
I don't mean to be all negative about your ideas or anything and I appreciate you trying to help.
But hopefully this helps you see where I'm coming from.
