Dev Diary, September 2nd, 2022 (Patreon)

Leap of Faith v1.0 release dates

Steam: 9th of September

I'll make an announcement on Steam when it's out, although these announcements are sometimes delayed by up to an hour, due to needing to be approved.

Patreon: 9th of September - $10 tier and upwards.

I will also send a private message with download links to anybody that has held a $5 tier for two months this year, or $1 tier for all of the year. You should get a notification when it's out.

Itch: 9th or 10th of September.

The existing Itch version will be removed completely and I will upload a new Itch version with patches. It will be given a price of $10. If you paid for the existing version it should be enough to pay the difference between what you paid and this price.

If any of you still want to download Leap of Faith with the original soundtrack, you now have one week to do so on Itch.

Other changes

• Leap of Faith 1.0 will run on Ren'Py 8.0.2.
• I have added a scene gallery.

• Music is back. There are still a few artists I would have liked to include from the original soundtrack, but the new one worked better than I could have hoped for.

• I've added all the girls to the main menu. Should have done so long ago, but due to some very old patches still in use, I couldn't.

• I had some problems with some of my old saves, but I think that was related to me jumping back and forth between different Ren'Py versions. I'll know more after the testers start testing later today.
• We'll also test Steam Cloud saves and Steam Leaderboard (who's seen the most screens in the game).

Misc

When the release is out, I'll start working on the walkthrough dlc, and prepare for community translations.

Last chance to be added to the Leap of Faith credits, so if you're a $20 patreon, use this link. I've pushed the deadline for additions until the end of Sunday (5th).

I've given this release everything I've got, and then some. I have to admit it was damn hard to keep going in the midst of the DMCA takedown. But I kept pushing through that and honestly, this is a release I'm proud of and a worthy ending to Leap of Faith, and I can't wait to show it to you all.

Have a nice weekend, stay safe out there, and hope to see you all next Friday for the release.

// Drifty