Update on the state of the game (Patreon)

(Non Patron-exclusive post)

With every passing day, I get another step closer to releasing the first beta of the game. Here's the general run-down for how this will be handled, just to make it as clear as possible.

There will be 4 versions of the game releasing on the same day (Hopefully sometime in march). These versions include two different safe-for-work copies of the game and two different not-safe-for-work copies of the game. Within these two groups, there will be one that goes up to day 3, and one that goes up to day 5. The distribution of each and my reasoning is as follows:

#1 version is a SFW version up to day 3 in each route. This version will be entirely free and will be posted to my itch.io. This way, I have something I can show to the people.

#2 version is an NSFW version up to day 3 in each route. This version will be a part of the "Intern" and up patron tiers. For those who played the free version, getting that but with the NSFW bits will be quite welcome, I imagine. There are quite a few changes.

(Note: This won't happen for a while, but there's a good chance I'll eventually make the older NSFW versions free as well.)

#3 version is a SFW version up to day 5 in each route. This version will also be a part of the "Intern" and up patron tiers. For those who enjoyed the SFW edition up to day 3, this will be like a continuation of that. In a sense, this means that being a patron will still get you something, even if you don't care for the NSFW content.

#4 version is an NSFW version up to day 5 in each route. This version will be a part of the "Employee" and up patron tiers. I recognize that it might seem a tad bit unreasonable to expect people to pay for this, but understand that the NSFW product is ultimately the complete product. As such, the NSFW editions will always have more content than the SFW editions. This means that the day 5 NSFW build is the most "in progress" of the lot, and thus I don't feel any problems with locking it fairly high up. It's essentially, "Thank you for supporting, here's super recent content that has like no chance of actually being finished."

Additionally, this game is intended to be a complete story and thus is planned around the final product, not with merely continuing for continuation's sake. The products I put out in each of these versions (even going on into future versions) will not be finished. I'm sure many of the sprites will be work-in-progress black-and-white sprites. CGs will, at least for the most part, lack in color and will also be more sketches than final, finished CGs. 

Me putting out this game isn't me putting out a product for the sake of putting out a product, but rather to garner support for the rest of this project. It will get more and more finished over time, but please understand this.

Thank you for your time, and I hope you will enjoy your time with Sihai's Legacy!