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It was an amazing week, and right now, I'm drained. Releasing the game on Steam and GOG was such a relief in many ways, and I could feel how my stress levels have reduced since yesterday.
The launch went smoothly, thanks to rigorous testing by my team of testers, and the launch also exceeded my expectations for it.
It makes me both overjoyed and intimidated seeing what level we're at after these 3.5-ish years of development of Being a DIK.
The best feeling about today is that I can put 100% focus on game development again very soon.
The last two months have been filled with testing, bug fixing, behind-the-scenes work in preparation for the Steam/GOG release, and customer support.
It's been necessary work, but I'm happy knowing I can get back to what I truly love doing very soon - creating.
I have been sneaking away to work on the interlude a lot throughout all of this. It's been my guilty pleasure, and it's coming along very nicely.
I don't dare estimate how far I am with the development, but I have a very good feeling about the progress. I'll know more soon when I work full-time on it.
Season 3 release information
When Season 3 drops on Patreon, with the interlude being the first mini-episode, I want to clarify what you can expect when it comes to the release.
You will be able to get the base Season 3 version (The Interlude) from these tiers:
- Huge DIK tier ($25) at release
- DIK tier ($10), three days after release
- And even the Mini DIK tier ($5), two weeks after release
This means that you don't have to pledge the DIK tier to get the Interlude. And you can use this version and patch it throughout Season 3 in the Mini DIK tier if you wish.
The usual release schedule will resume starting with episode 9, which follows the interlude. When episode 9 is released, the base game is placed in the DIK tier as usual, and only the patches will be available in the Mini DIK tier.
Transferring save files to Season 3
You can use any save transfer files from either Patreon/GOG/Steam Season 2 versions to start playing Season 3 on Patreon when it is released.
To show you how it looks like when you transfer a save to Season 3, this is an example of the Patreon/GOG import screen (they share the slots).
And if you click the text button up top that says "Click to change source," you can conveniently swap to importing the Steam save files. Like this:
Click any of your save files to load and continue your adventure.
The actual saving and loading within Season 3 are handled like usual; only the save transfer between Season 2 and Season 3 looks like this.
The saves you make while playing the Patreon version won't work with Steam or GOG versions when those versions are released in the future.
I hope all of this gets clear in time; it often helps to have the game and click the buttons for yourself to understand it better. I'll do my best to help sort out any confusion along the way.
Patron milestone reward
I'll end this status update with a huge thank you to everyone supporting me here and/or on Steam/GOG.
And here is the next reward in the patron milestone series; the first wallpaper of Maya and Josy, as ordered.
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UWD
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We're up to part 3 now out of...many parts.
Have a great weekend, DIKs and HOTs
Love
Dr PinkCake
