Bonus - Phinn's gallery #1 + Any advice for hosting? (Patreon)

I thought I'd drop in a little bonus update for everyone today, both because I wanted to share an image and also to ask a question.

Current pledge amount

Just a quick acknowledgement at first that the pledge totals have dipped a little - this seems to happen as part of the payment processing that Patreon does each month, but as far as I'm aware everything should be fine, they are just waiting on some payments to clear. Last month it dropped really low and then recovered with one of the lowest amounts of declines I've seen, so I think it should be good.

The image

I figured I might show everyone some bonus materials made by Phinn early in the design process that no longer fit comfortably into the game (but you hopefully will enjoy them anyway). You may or may not know that Phinn was working on designing pictures for PAL at the start, but had to leave the project due to health concerns. Thankfully he's recovering, but unfortunately a fair amount of the work he produced doesn't quite fit with how the game later developed and so a chunk of it will only be able to be included in the harem victory suite. I thought I'd share a few of these pictures as a bonus, even though you will get to see them in the harem suite in the final version anyway (along with others).

Obviously Phinn used his own character models so the characters look a little different, but this is Kenji with Masami and Kimiko. If you find the difference in image styles too off-putting then let me know, but at the moment I'm operating on the assumption that while players will notice the difference, you'd rather see Phinn's stuff in the game than not see it.

I've got a cold :(

It's actually kind of nasty, but whatever. These things happen. I'm continuing to work anyway, and in fact I've been really productive over the last few days so I might have the next alpha version out quite soon!

Any suggestions for hosting?

I've been thinking about how I'll host the game this time around. With the limited Patreon crowd it's fine for me to use my Google Drive share function, but for a public release I'm going to want something suitable for a wide release and preferably free. Any suggestions?

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