Firstly, the beta will be free with optional donations, which have no extra benefits (except, of course, supporting the game). When I fully release the game, I will plan to make it pay-to-play, but I want to get as many perspectives as possible on whatever latest Beta I have available (I also enjoy showing you all whatever progress I've made).

The current plan is to update the Alpha whenever I make a major change to the survival mechanics. Right now, I'm thinking of entirely redoing the world system, which simply has you jumping between two different scenes (your house and the open world). However, I'm not very deep into redoing it yet, and am still open to any suggestions that come my way! And then, after I'm pretty confident with the core mechanics, I'll be adding new weapons, a new story, a more expanded world, etc. This is going to be the Beta stage where I'm going to be trying out a whole lot of random shit (including suggestions). Whatever works, I'll keep working on it later. Whatever doesn't, I'll remove it in the final release. 

That's all, I guess.