# New Patreon rewards and goals since October, including plans for: training videos, conference+gamejam, Occulus port

**URL:** https://forum.castle-engine.io/t/new-patreon-rewards-and-goals-since-october-including-plans-for-training-videos-conference-gamejam-occulus-port/229
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**Created:** [September 27, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.castle-engine.io/t/new-patreon-rewards-and-goals-since-october-including-plans-for-training-videos-conference-gamejam-occulus-port/229 "2020-09-27T22:19:29Z")
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### Author: ![michalis](https://forum.castle-engine.io/user_avatar/forum.castle-engine.io/michalis/32/3_2.png) [@michalis](https://forum.castle-engine.io/u/michalis)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.castle-engine.io/t/new-patreon-rewards-and-goals-since-october-including-plans-for-training-videos-conference-gamejam-occulus-port/229/1 "2020-09-27T22:19:29Z")

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| [![Castle Game Engine on Patreon](https://castle-engine.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cge-patreon-200x113.png)](https://castle-engine.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cge-patreon.png "Castle Game Engine on Patreon") |

First of all, big thank you to everyone who already [supports the engine on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/castleengine). If you like what we’re doing, please support us!

This announcement took a long time to write. I want to change our Patreon rewards and goals to be both more exciting (having CGE on VR was my dream for some time now 🙂 ) _and_ also more realistic (as I [announced last month](https://www.patreon.com/posts/im-being-late-on-40745807)).

**Before we start, I wanted to tell you what _“Patreon rewards”_ I rejected — because they are available already, for free, for everyone 🙂**

- A new developer, whose time will be paid by my savings, will join CGE in October! I will announce him officiallly next weekend 🙂 
- Remember that you can always contact me, describe your project, and ask for help. You can use [Castle Game Engine forum](https://forum.castle-engine.io/), [Discord and other ways](https://castle-engine.io/talk.php), [email or Keybase](https://michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~michalis/) or just [send a message through Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/castleengine).

I promise to look at everything. Simple questions or even fixes/improvements are always answered promptly, as you can probably see in the above communication channels 🙂

- Remember that I welcome all your projects on [our game gallery](https://castle-engine.io/gallery_games.php) (or [tools](https://castle-engine.io/gallery_tools.php) or [components](https://castle-engine.io/additional_components.php) galleries). I want to link to you, I want to announce your projects, I want to reshare your screenshots and movies. I love seeing how you use CGE, this is incredibly motivating. Please send me screenshots / movies of what you’re doing with CGE **right now** 🙂

Moving on, **these are new rewards for your support on Patreon on various tiers:**

- 5 USD tier allows you to **“Request new training video”**.

The goal is that you can request a new training video on any CGE-related topic. I promise to have time each month to prepare at least 1 video on any subject that can “fit” anywhere between 5-45 minutes. The videos will be public (so everyone using the engine benefits) on [our YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/CastleGameEngineX3d/).

- 10 USD tier becomes now **“Request Next Engine Features, once every 2 months”**.

- 50 USD tier remains unchanged: you get **“Cloud Builds Server for Your Projects”** and my eternal gratitude! I’m also thinking about introducing [merch](https://www.patreon.com/merch) for this tier. Please let me know what do you think about this, as Patreon makes it super-easy to make and deliver. 

- Oh, and the 1 USD tier remains as just a **basic way to support the engine**. You also still get access to _private posts_ on Patreon, but I do not want to commit to them regularly. I want to make everything public and open about the engine, so there wasn’t much opportunity for _private posts_ in the past.

And here are **new Patreon goals** :

- Upon reaching 250 USD / month support (I really hope we’ll reach it soon!) **we organize Castle Game Engine online conference + gamejam!**

To celebrate this goal, we’ll organize a conference followed by a gamejam session! To start small, I want to devote a weekend toward it, with one day (Saturday) devoted to sessions (4-8 talks of 30 mins) and another day (Sunday) devoted to a gamejam. (Maybe we should switch gamejam and sessions days order?) Throughout the entire weekend, the primary goal will be to actually “meet” (online) and have a chance to talk together — CGE developers and users alike. There are many free tools to organize such event now, so I have no worries about the technical feasability of it 🙂

- Upon reaching 500 USD / month **we buy a good VR headset (in 200-300 USD price range) and port CGE to it**.

- Upon reaching 1000 USD / month **we make “Cloud Builds Server for Your Projects (Jenkins)” accessible for all open-source projects, for free, and you can automatically register and use it**.