No, "end of the month" is going to be pretty close to "end of the month." I'm down to some "connect the scenes together" renders to build (waiting for Daz Studio to load as I type this), plus rendering the rest of the animations, but you know how long it can take to render animations. Then package it all up in Ren'py. Doubt I'll have it done by Sunday, but REALLY hoping to have it done before Halloween. Going to be tight, but I know I've been trying a lot of people's patience, so pushing hard...
Full disclosure - my wife was hospitalized in mid-August, and I still don't have her home at this point. So between work, keeping up with her and playing "primary caregiver" for my 83-year-old mother and 90-year-old mother-in-law, I don't have near as much time as I'd like to work on this. That's the primary reason for the August-then-September-then-October slippage. (August was probably too aggressive from the get-go, but that's what I get for SWAG'ing a date...) The Patreon stuff didn't help, of course, but it's primarily been down to the fact that I like to sleep at least a few hours a week.
So (a) this is totally on me, not JohnCBB, (b) we haven't abandoned this in any way, and (c) we thank everybody for their patience, and also for their continued interest. (If nobody was asking "when's the update," we'd wonder if we really had any fans... LOL)