Version 0.44 delayed to August (Payments Paused) (Patreon)

You will not be charged for August if you were charged in July! If you already pledged this month, or you pledge now, you won't be charged for August. If you pledge in August and weren't pledged in January, you'll still be charged. Putting it in bold again so people hopefully won't end their patronage because they think they're being charged twice for one update. Anyways, I'm delaying the update both to polish it more before release and add a bit of extra content, and because if I didrelease it now, the timing would be very awkward for anyone who wanted to pledge right away, as they would be charged twice within a few days if I weren't pausing payments.

As for why it's being delayed, it's basically a combination of me overestimating how much work I had done, underestimating how much work I had left to do, and underestimating how much time it would take to do said work. One issue was finishing development of the new blue section, because the mechanical side of that was trickier than I expected, and the other main problem was me having a lot of scenes written, but not a lot of scenes finished.The total amount of words written for the current update is 18 000, but the amount that is implemented in a finished scene is only 11 500. With the extra time from this delay, I'll have it up to at least 14 000 when it's released. I've got most of the required content for this update done now, so I will probably release it early into next month, but with the extra time I'll also polish things up a bit more.

Thank you for both your support and your patience! I hoped to have it out by the 5th, but now it's looking like late on the 6th or 7th. There will now be artwork with the update, and the word count is currently at 17 000.