- Apr 25, 2018
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From my experience, as you probably heard before from others here, developers who want to cash in the patreon marketplace are a dime a dozen, to them, long term decision-making is a foreign concept. And to players who utilize the products they list, it is also an unrealistic expectation.
Not only because they have been burned one too many times by developers, but because the patreon business structure does not reward such a mindset. Asking your patrons, who needs to justify to themselves spending money on your product instead of others, to pay a month, maybe several, on non-related content development would not compute with most.
As someone who has been on and off supporting patreons over the years, I can tell you right now the most important thing I see in someone I'm supporting, is stability. "Does he update the game each month? Are the updates meaningful? Are payments process paused when there are no updates? Has the game maintained a solid vision? Is there feature creep?"
If these questions are checked off, then you can assume whatever game you want to support, have a good work ethic, a good headspace of the service they're providing, a good vision of where they want the game to be and how to get there, and is focus enough to not lose track of their vision when resources come flooding in.
Any game you want to make as a developer will have a good foundation if you can make it while keeping to the above.
