Backers
Developers and backers are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Developers" instead a noun "Backers".
Developers
Backers and developers are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backers" instead a noun "Developers".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Citing developers like CD Projekt RED as inspiration, the team behind Shadowrun Returns decided to release this update free for original backers and owners of the original Dragonfall.
Source: Videogame / Shadowrun Returns - In the draft given to kickstarter backers, the Unfortunate Implications (and the fan reaction to them) were intense enough that the developers decided to revise it before the final publication.
- Note that as far as the developers are concerned, this is explicitly a Friendly Rivalry; Chris Roberts and David Braben are both alpha backers of the other's game, and are both on record as wanting the other to succeed.
Source: Dueling Works / Games
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