Huge Announcements! Update Schedule and more! - 8/1/20 (Patreon)

Once again, another public post. This one is... quite the doozy! This post will have both specifics and my reasonings involved. I will have a tl;dr at the end of it, but please read the whole thing over.

Update Schedule

First, as I alluded to in the last post, I'll be making more consistent updates to the game. These updates will be much lighter than the current (theoretical) updates, but that should make it easier to actually put out content.

These updates will consist of one day added to a route every other week. Since I have college on my plate too, I'll be seeing if this pace is easy enough. If it turns out that once every other week is easy enough, then I might make updates more frequent.

These days will go Jehu (boar) > Paul (tanuki) > Alan (bull) > Shen (dragon) > Jorge (bird), and will go in a loop.

SFW/NSFW Versions

I still want there to be a potential experience where you're not there for the horny funtime. However, making a separate SFW version is kinda tedious, if I'm being honest! Plus, I feel that most people will be here for the NSFW version anyway. So, I will be making an adjustment to the game, in the form of a SFW/NSFW toggle. If it works the way i want it to, you should be able to hit a simple switch in order to access the NSFW content.

This applies to the free versions on itch.io

Now, instead of having to download separate versions, you should only need the one.

Patron Tier Differences

In my Patreon, there are 2 tiers that give you access to a more recent and a most recent version of the game. This will be changing to a model closer to other dating sim/visual novels of this sort out there.

Sticking in the lower tier will get you access to the most recent build of the game, but the image and music galleries will be locked. The higher tier will get you access to these galleries! Both of these versions will be uploaded to itch.io, requiring you to verify that your patron tier is the right one in order to download it.

I will be updating the patron tiers with this information shortly after uploading this post.

Itch.io aka F2P

The F2P version will also be changing to match the NSFW/SFW change. Once there is more than a 3 day difference between the F2P version and the Patreon version, I will update the F2P version with a full wave of days.

Think of it like this:

The F2P version is currently at day 3. When I release the first day on Patreon of the "Day 7 wave", it will be updated to have each route's day 4. Then, when I release the first day on Patreon of the "Day 8 wave", it will be updated to have each route's day 5. Essentially, the F2P version will update in groups of 5 days.

Unfortunately, this means that it'll still take a good while for the F2P copy to get more content. However, I think this is fine since, with the update I make in 2 weeks, the F2P version will get access to the NSFW content in and up to day 3. That should help to tide it over, haha.

Discord

I'm still working on making it, but I will be making a discord server specifically for this game! I'm not entirely sure what I'll be doing in there, honestly. Maybe posting little doodles I make or just vibing or... something. We'll see!

TL;DR

Updates are going to be every two weeks. Each update will include one day of a route, going in the order of Jehu > Paul > Alan > Shen > Jorge.

The $10 patron tier will get you the image and music galleries. The $5 patron tier and $10 patron tier give you the same game, SFW and NSFW, minus the image and music galleries. 

The game will now incorporate a SFW/NSFW toggle, rather than separate versions.

F2P will be about 2-3 in-game days behind the patreon content, but will also include NSFW.

I am making a Patreon-linked discord server, but it is a work-in-progress.

One Last Thing...

I mentioned this in my last post but, since I will be pushing out content at a faster rate, I will be making placeholders in place of stuff that my artist, daxhush, has yet to do. If you see a sprite or a miniature cg that looks to be a different style entirely than the rest of the sprites and cgs, that'll be why.

Forcing my artist to make things in such a consistently short timespan would be quite silly, but I don't want to release any version of the game with the default assets- that would make it very jarring, I believe. So, I hope you'll put up with my work long enough to get his!