A fresh, new year! Oh, it’s just a couple of days after the stale, old year? And time is just an abstract, artificial construct created by humans to measure ongoing decline and decay? Well, when you put it that way…

Even with time off for good behavior over the holidays, we still managed to put a big dent in the workload for Chapter 8. Scene 6 will be done today (after a couple of re-renders) and scene 7 is in the can. Five scenes to go.

We have been pretty spot-on when it comes to schedule planning in the past. This time, however, we’ve been overly optimistic and Chapter 8 is turning out to be more difficult than we originally thought. That, and the holidays, and Snax losing several weeks to hardware crashes and some hacker intrusion nonsense, and… well… As we near the end of the story, there are a multitude of branches that have to be coded for and tested. Oh, and that Snax has to provide the renders for. We had hoped to be done with Chapter 8 by the end of January, but it’s looking now like end of February to mid-March for the next update. Still not a guaranteed date, but it’s what we’re shooting for.

We’ve added a new channel to our Discord server. For all of the “how did you do that” questions that have been flowing in, we’re going to provide some code snippets and whole files that you can use in your own Ren’Py apps if you are a developer. Snax has already added a couple to the channel. If you have any questions you’d like answered yourself, just send Snax a private message and we’ll think about adding it to the queue. We can’t promise to answer every single question, but we’ll try. Within reason.

Welcome to our new supporters! We really appreciate your support—you’re the reason we keep doing this. If you haven’t already, please join us on our Discord and say hi!

And now, ladies, gentlemen, and esteemed guests, feast thine eyes upon these two images, the fruits of our recent labours!