Announcement

Hello all, as of earlier today, 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. The earlier release schedule for Ch4Up5 is thus:

Club Owners: Saturday, December 28th

Diamond Club Members: Tuesday, December 31st

Platinum Club Members: Friday, January 3rd

Gold Club Members: Tuesday, January 7th

What you can expect out of this update:

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.

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 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 here GIL occasionally posts upcoming images, old works of his, or discarded animations we end up not using for the game.

Additionally, we’ll be adding a credit page to the game. Club Owners: all you need to do to get credited is DM us with the name you’d like to be credited under either on here or discord. 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 is everything to us. Thank you so, so much for enabling us do the thing we love year after year. I hope this update will live up to your faith in us. Going into the New Year and beyond, we’ll keep striving to be worthy of that.

Have a merry Christmas, a happy holiday, and a fantastic New Year.