Funder Benefits

Perks for funding the development of this free game.

by Svetogam

5 minutes

Super Practica will remain free for everyone forever. No part of the game will be locked behind a paywall. While that is our absolute commitment, we still want to give our funders as many individual benefits as we can without compromising the quality of the game. The following perks are what we came up with.

Support Development #

Without funding, Super Practica cannot be developed. With more funding, it can be developed more quickly and can cover more topics more quickly. Supporting its development so you can play it in a better form is a great reason for funding Super Practica.

Funder Credit #

Funders will be credited in an in-game Credits page. Names will be listed top to bottom according to their Funder Score in something like a high score table. Funders can choose and change the names listed for themselves, and remain credited regardless of their membership status.

Funder Score is calculated by the following rules:

  • $1 = 100 points
  • Points accumulate without decreasing. (Scores reflect lifetime totals.)
  • Every 6 months, all scores are multiplied by 1.1. This will happen January 1 and July 1, starting in 2026. (This reflects the greater value of earlier funding.)

If multiple funders have the same Funder Score, then they will secondarily be listed in order of earliest to latest time of their first payment.

These scores have no other effect besides presentation in the credits.

Funder Membership #

Minimum: $10 (Later: $10/month)

Ongoing funders will have membership as Funders in the organization. Funder membership includes the following:

  • A Funder account in our Zulip chat. This gives reading privileges in members-only channels there (named “private”) and posting privileges in some of them, depending on their moderation. Funders can still get banned if they’re too much trouble, but will receive extra warnings before that outcome.
  • Ability to participate in Priority Polls for deciding the relative priority of different topics and features. (Funders do not influence the end-goal of the project, but do influence what gets done sooner.)
  • More patient and receptive dialogue with developer(s) in answering questions, explaining decisions, tech support, and so on.

This is intended as a monthly membership, but in this early stage, payment for a single month will grant indefinite membership. This is because there aren’t any Priority Polls ready for participation yet. For an estimate, the first Priority Poll might happen around January 1, 2026.

One-time payments will be translated to months of membership at $10/month. Accumulated months of membership will only begin to decrease after the first Priority Poll.

Sponsorship #

Minimum: $1000 one-time or $200/month

Sponsors will be listed in an in-game Sponsors page. This page will have a scrollable list containing Sponsor Cards, which can include a name, an image, and a web link. These are like larger and temporary Funder Credits.

We will only accept sponsors that we think will not be contradictory to our principles or counter-productive to our goals. Though this does not mean we must agree with everything our sponsors do.

Please contact contact@superpractica.org to check if you will qualify and to work out the details of the deal. To begin this conversation, use the subject line “Sponsor Offer” and give whatever information you think we will need to research your name or brand and what it represents. (In most cases, just the web page you want to link in-game will be enough.)

Note that you can still get in-game visibility from a high Funder Score even if you are not officially accepted as a sponsor.

Sponsorship Details:

  • The Sponsors page will be about 3-4 clicks away from the starting screen.
  • One-time payments will be translated to monthly payments. The sponsor will decide how many months and amount per month the one-time payment represents.
  • Sponsors will be listed in order of the largest to lowest amount per month given, rounded down to the nearest $10 per month. If this leaves multiple sponsors tied, then they will secondarily be listed in order of earliest to latest time of their first payment as a sponsor.
  • Sponsor Cards are guaranteed to be shown in at least 1 non-patch release (that is, a release including substantial new content or features) for every 5 months of sponsorship.
    • This means that if there is a long period without releases during the time of your sponsorship, your Sponsor Card will still be shown in this minimum number of releases, even after your sponsorship ends.
    • This also means that if you pay monthly for 4 months or less, your Sponsor Card might not be included in any release if no release is made during that time. You should think of monthly payments as being accepted on the trust that they will continue to add up to at least $1000 (or 5 months of sponsorship).
  • Sponsorship may include services given in place of payment at whatever we decide to value those services at.
  • Sponsorship may be accepted at less than $200/month at our discretion.
  • Sponsors receive Funder Membership at no extra charge, for the duration of the sponsorship. The member account may be managed by any number of people representing the sponsor.

Notice #

These benefits are subject to change and represent expectations of current and future policy rather than promises. We will attempt to communicate changes effectively and to offer refunds for misunderstandings that arise from our miscommunication.

You can fund Super Practica through any of these platforms: