V0.8 episode one? How does that work?
I'm not a patron of his, but my guess is that he's starting to call the game Episode 1. So it's Episode 1 v0.8.
Many of those young devs have no proper idea how RPG Maker works when they start. They are eager to get some of those free money as soon as possible. That's why you see some many 0.1 versions, with barely 10 min of content. As soon as they learn how to make a map and string two events together, they open the pledges. And since they learn as they go, they end up creating a complete mess of those initial events, that causes them problems as the game progresses.
So many of them cut themselves in to a corner and either have to remake everything, or just call the "episode" over, carry the few choices the played had made (if there are even meaningful choices top carry over) and start a new episode.