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As the assets are still in flux at this stage of the game, there's still quite a bit to be changed before we lock in anything with assets. I'll also note, because there appears to be some misinformation here, that the norm is typically not to credit the authors of assets from storefronts.

The license on most storefronts is for the asset as a clean piece of work, without any artist name attached. In some cases this is because it's not purely their work that has been purchased, and the artist may be using art they purchased from somebody else as a basis for their work or had others contribute to the work they created or the work was done as a collaboration. In other cases it's because their name has not been properly attached to the work. As well, in some legal jurisdictions it can raise issues to credit individuals without their express permission.

All that said, we will be looking at crediting any people we can for their asset work that is used in Dead Ma...

We do. Like many studios, we purchase assets from time to time from third party artists. Some of these were purchased/included as placeholders until we move forward with our own tailor-made assets to fill that role, and serve as a kind of testing placeholder. Others were purchased for use outright - it's very much a case-by-case thing.

The Double Barrel package gives you two keys for both the CA and EA releases of the game - both of you should have no issue playing the game, though you will both need to redeem the keys for the EA release when they come out for both of you to get access to that, and his CA key will be good up until the CA ends - this is projected to be some time early next year, although this is subject to change depending on progress on the CA.

The CA is anticipated to run until some time early next year at the very least, possibly longer due to the delay in launching the CA. So, any CA keys you have should allow your friends to play around Christmas. This is all subject to change, but for the time being that's the way things stand.

I'm guessing it's a typo, but just in case it isn't - any keys you would've purchased (assuming you purchased from a third-party source,) are for the Closed Alpha (CA,) not the Early Access (EA,) release of the game, and are only good for that period of the game's development.

Hey there Reddit. We wanted to reach out to our community about something troubling we've been seeing over the last little while. Over the last several weeks, we've noticed an influx of new players who purchased keys for the Closed Alpha from backers who had extras, or who decided they were no longer interested in the game. We would like to strongly caution users from doing so, as this will only get you access to the Closed Alpha, not the actual release of Dead Matter.

Like many games, Dead Matter is using a separate 'product' on Steam for our Closed Alpha. As a backer reward for some tiers, we offered extra keys with CA-only access to the game so that backers could bring their friends on to play with them and help with the testing program as we worked towards the Early Access release of the game. As such, keeping the CA and main branches of the games separate was necessary - given that quite a few users have a large number of spare keys on their accounts, it's not really p...

We are still interacting with our player base within CA channels. Given that the CA is under an NDA, we're primarily focusing on discussing the game with those taking part in the CA while we work past the most critical issues we have in the game. Beyond that, more formal public updates will resume once we're past the current phase of development.

Partners do not get a different version of the game from the rest of our backers. You are all playing the same game.

Due to requirements put in place by Steam, we are unable to allow any further people to become backers. You will, unfortunately, need to wait until the game enters Early Access to play Dead Matter.

1. Yeah, that's more or less it. We ran with the timeframe on their site, and they needed more time. Left us in a really bad place, but that's on us.

2. I can't really comment any further here. I'm not a web dev, and I'll defer to your expertise here. We were caught in a bad place, and between attacks and just a lotta folks trying to get in, our site was wrecked.

3. We still feel awful about having to shut things down, and we're looking forward to being able to bring our full community back online.

4. We really underestimated just how much our community had grown, and there was a huge silent component we didn't even see until recently. Left us underequipped to handle it when all hell broke loose.

It isn't.

Over 100.

1. We ordered ahead of time. Valve has limits for how many keys you can get at once.
2. We do not have millions of backers.
3. Discord themselves dropped the ball on this. Servers must request an upgrade once they have more than 25k users online. We attempted to contact them about this repeatedly in the runup to the launch of the CA, and they didn't respond until we had to shut our server down and then the development team collectively entered a Discord employee's server and ask them to up it. This still took nearly 24 hours to be done.
4. $2M is really not a lot in game development.

We are not. While you are able to 'buy' on the site, the purchase will be rejected.

Thanks for chiming in. I know we've done a lot wrong over the last several days, but it's still really appreciated.

As I'm sure you all have noticed, our site is down once again. At peak last night, we were fielding over half a million requests per minute, and even now site load is way higher than anticipated. We are doing everything in our power to get the site back online. However, we do not currently have an ETA on the website coming back up - the people who handle our backend are not all available to work on the site right this moment, though as soon as they can be, they'll be back to work on it. Once the site is back up, and we can verify that backers are getting and redeeming the keys we have assigned on the site, we will distribute more.

• We will post another soft announcement (without pinging everyone) once the site is back up, and post an update on Twitter to the same effect. We cannot guarantee when this will be, unfortunately.

• Due to the spam and general vitriol being posted on our forums, we have also locked it down to read only for the time being. Mu...

These are the keys we received last night.

We'll be updating as we can and as we receive good information and when we get approval to do so. I know that isn't what anybody wants to hear, but it's the best we can do right now.

We're not answering questions that we don't have answers to. It doesn't help anybody to give out bad information.

Everyone who backed is getting a key. It may just take some time as we have a limited number to distribute.

We didn't communicate this earlier because we weren't using the method we're using now at all.

The site is working, but it's being hit hard. If you're having trouble connecting, I'd suggest waiting a bit before trying again. If you have keys, they're already yours. There's no need to worry about getting in first.