Quick Update + Itch.io Integration (Patreon)

A quick update on the next build. We're putting everything together into a playable build and testing the game right now. Good news is the game seems to work fine with the old save files, so you can just put the old save files into the save folder and continue the game from there! After proofreading the script, we'll test the game again and if there is no game-breaking bug, then we should be able to release it soon for our supporters.

Itch.io Integration

While we're working on the game, we have also been looking for a way to distribute the game to our supporters in a way that it'll be easy for both supporters and for us to update the game. As we have talked about this earlier in our Steam post, even though we have our own launcher, maintaining the patching & updating by ourselves is really time consuming and add more workload to myself. If I can reduce this work then I'll have more time to focus on making and finishing the game.

Itch.io is another game distribution platform that comes with its own application. The Itch app will let you download a game from their store and keep the game up-to-date. I've checked their tools and it's really simple and fast to push any new changes I made to the game for players to download. We've tested this and found that it cut down the time we spent on this tremendously.  Itch.io also accept games with adult contents, as I've seen other bara/gay games with adult contents on there as well.

Moving forward, I believe it is better in the long run for us to rely on Itch.io to help us with patching/updating instead of rolling our own. While this will require supporters to create a new account on Itch.io, I hope you'll the convenience you'll get in the future will outweight the inconvenience of having to create a new account. And Itch.io is a great platform that I'd like to support in general.

For now, I'd like a bit more time to set all this up so that the new way of distributing the game will be as smooth as possible. As soon as it's done, I'll make another new post about it!

- Punipen