With early access to the game we can help the developers generate content and assets.
Tom, Tony, and Dee could post assets they need as the game develops. We, the community, could then create content that they could use or be inspired by to create even better items.
Ex. Say Dee is making tree assets (and tells us that in her weekly/monthly report). We can help her by sending in our own created content for her to use, throw away, or be inspired by.
We can also help by brainstorming missions for the “encounter mission things” that they describe in the video.
Dependent on how far along the game is, we can even start creating those missions now to have a solid basis of user created missions and content to use.
For a community driven and sponsored game, the sky is the limit.