FYI - Everyone can facepalm me all they want. It is never a good idea to send code to anyone without at least doing a sanity check on it (very basic testing). It doesn't matter if you are doing everything yourself. It doesn't even matter if you have a dedicated testing team. Good development practices still apply!
I support the developer but it doesn't mean that his shit doesn't stink. Developers aren't Gods that should be worshiped. Everyone makes mistakes and releasing anything without checking to make sure it even functions is a very poor habit and a very bad idea. Truth is truth. Lots of players put developers on a pedestal. This is OK to an extent. But when it gets to the point of saying a developer can do no wrong and that their shit somehow doesn't stink like the rest of us then there is a problem.
Peace.
Under normal circumstances I'd agree that as a developer you wouldn't release code that hasn't been tested thoroughly - but like I said in normal circumstances.
1) This isn't a commercial product and as we know if you play a few games on here there are normally errors here and there in some of them.
2)
HoneyGames is a one man band dev with volunteer bug finders/fixers. He tests as much of the current release as he can and releases it to Patreon top-tier and helpers who accept there will be bugs. Probably the only fault here is that maybe he should call that release "NCC_1.4_Alpha" instead.
3) Those who have access to it then help track down the remaining bugs via multiple playthroughs - and as you know there are lots of different paths and variables. For example, I can cover a lot of them but don't even bother with Irene or Maud as it doesn't interest me. Given the complexity he does well to test as much as he can before the release and have it even partly playable.
4) A bug-fix patch is often released soon after (within a day or so) and an updated version (with grammar checking as he's Italian) released a bit later.
In the past he'd asked the moderators to delay any posting of the new releases on here if leaked but they've stopped doing so. This time around especially it was leaked within couple of hours - bugs & all. A bug-fix patch was released soon after and tagged in the OP - but some members ignored it anyway (referring to all those "game goes back to the menu at the end of 1.31"). I've been testing an updated version and there are still odd errors here and there but they'll be tracked down & fixed by myself and others - when we get a chance to do so and aren't working for example.
If it was a commercial game released on Steam/Epic/EA/Uplay I wouldn't be happy with the bugs but it isn't so most of us accept it for what it is.