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Woohoo! There's even a tier I could plausibly upgrade to before my holiday vacation ends. Excellent news all around, now we just need to be patient for that final stretch.
Hello Everyone, as of earlier yesterday, proofing is well underway on Chapter 4 Update 5. Since our tireless typo crusaders have already eaten up tracts of script, I feel comfortable making a concrete announcement. You'll find the earlier release schedule in the attached image, but what you can expect from this update:
As you can see, we’re adding an extra patron tier to the mix (Diamond Club Member), as well as folding Gold Members into the early release schedule. This accompanies a price refresh (all old members are grandfathered into the old prices) that Patreon suggested we do. We’ve always been reticent about touching our pricing structure. For one, it’s difficult to bake value into the tiers in a meaningful way as we intentionally avoid perks that eat into dev time (like commissions) or dictate content (voting power on polls). The Club Owner tier only came about after a handful of people asked about supporting us beyond our initial offering. Something in between the two always seemed like a sensible idea, and we are now finally getting around to adding it. It’s not much, but Diamond Club members and above will be able to request 4k renders of any image in the game and get access to GIL’s vault on our discord, a place where GIL occasionally posts upcoming images, old works of his, or discarded animations we end up not using for various reasons. Additionally, we’ll be adding a credit page to the game. Club Owners: all you need to do to get credited is DM us either on patreon or discord with the name you’d like to be forever memorialized under. This retroactively applies to former Club Owners as well. If you at one point supported us at that tier, please also DM us with the name you’d like us to use. We can check our records and confirm. Anyway, this update has been a long time in the oven. Our longest, actually. That so many of you have supported us in the interim between releases means everything to us. Thank you for letting us do the thing we love year in, year out. It is my Christmas wish that we’ll live up to that, both for this update specifically and beyond the New Year.
- 3,657 new static images, 86 new animations, and roughly 66,000 words.
- Content for Rosalind, Kathleen (for those that are on her “homework” path), Darius plot advancement, a juicy scene with a certain side character, and a big penultimate event that features the whole cast mingling in highly variable ways.
- GIL also reshot like 77 prologue images that have been bugging him for years over the past couple of days.
Stupid final stretch! Hate it so much!