It is another way for people to buy the game. Any money received from pledges is added to your account on te4.org. Once that reaches 6$ you'll be considered a donator/buyer like any other: because you just did like everybody else anyway. I'm a firm believer that whenever your platform of choice, you should always get the same rewards for the same effort .

like any other: because you just did like everybody else anyway. I'm a firm believer that whenever your platform of choice, you should always . It is a way for players that love the game to help support the game and its future !

! Some would say, perhaps rightly so, that a game without a monthly subscription is done. After it has launched, it’s best to move onto a new project. This may be a wise course of action but I’m the sort of person to do the exact opposite of wise for 10 years and counting. Seems to be working for everyone involved, doesn’t it? Still, I need to ensure ways to make sure I can keep ToME-ing for the years to come; Patreon is one such way.









Greetings my minions and future minions, My name is DarkGod and I make the roguelike game:and the T-Engine that powers it . I've done so for the past 10 years and I plan to continue to do so in the foreseeable future. Before that I made other games whose acronyms were also "ToME"; because I'm weird and kinky like that :)So what's the deal, why a Patreon page when people can already buy the game? Many reasons my dear minion. Let's see:Let's be more specific then shall we!An explanation first: technically, I count everything in euros because I'm a filthy European. Even worse, I'm French. But since Patreon doesn’t support euros, for the sake of simplicity, I pretend that 1€ = $1. This isn’t strictly how they convert to each other, but I'll take the difference out of my pocket. Even evil gods of darkness can be nice! :)Now, for every dollar that you give me, whatever the amount of your pledge, it gets added to your te4.org account. This happens every month that your pledge stays active.When your total reaches 6€ (from any source, including Patreon, Paypal, etc), I consider that equivalent to having purchased the base game. Also, for every 2€, you get a new slot in the Online Item's Vault. This vault lets you store some items you find in the game and retrieve them later on different characters. (Or the same one but what's the point? ;) ). Once you reach the 6€ threshold, you have 3 slots to use and counting.While the vault slots are a gift for donating money, you can also spend that money on your account to obtain stuff. What stuff? Well, expansions & cosmetic items, obviously!Say that the total amount you have donated is 10€. This means the system considers you have 10 - 6(base price) = 4€ left available to spend. Which you could use to grab Ashes of Urh'Rok for example! I should note, even if/when you spend this money on the account, the item slots you’ve earned in the Online Item’s Vault are permanently attached to the account and won’t disappear.This may sound a bit complex but I hope I explained it all well enough. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any further questions. I built the system this way to, whether they bought the game on Steam, donated via Paypal, pledged money on Patreon and so on.A very good question! And no, most likely not. While this may sound rather surprising, let me explain a bit, it is related to what I've explained before. Basically I am a firm believer in treating every player the same way and giving them the same possibilities, as much as possible. For example, when the game launched on Steam, I added support for Steam Workshop addons. However, I made sure that it wouldn’t be possible to upload an addon to the workshop before the creator uploaded it to te4.org first. This ensures that all players, no matter where they bought ToME from, could all enjoy the same selection of wacky addons. This is how I’m approaching Patreon. While I do appreciate the pledge support, I don’t want to create any Patreon-exclusive content right now that other non-patrons can’t see or experience, it just would not be fair.Maybe this will make some people less likely to pledge on Patreon, I know that, but to me fairness trumps that. So I'll just accept it as it is and whenever you wish to support the game some more or not; I thank you for your time reading all that and I hope you're having a great time playing