Quick update...

I still have most of the writing to do at this stage, so I honestly don't know yet. I doubt it though.

Will old saves be able to work with the next update?

Pagsram

Nearest I'm going to commit to is 'around the end of August'. It was a real struggle to get the last version ready on time.

Any estimate when 0.5 will release? Not saying to rush, take as much time as you need! Glad things sound to be going well

Chub

Far from lost interest! Just been really busy lately. But I have got a lot of images done as well as some writing. If all goes well, 0.5 will have another 200+ images, and more story for at least two of the sub characters :)

No current plans to add any more wage rises. But everything in the game is still work in progress, so this may change at some point. Working is a necessary evil and is designed to slow the pace of the game a little, which is one of the reasons I added Becca to make the chore a little more enjoyable. The intial upload for 0.4 did indeed have the debugging info enabled. I'd been testing for 12 straight hours and was so tired that I forgot to disable it. I had a new version up shortly afterwards with this removed :) As mentioned before, everything is work in progress and a couple of the scenes don't affect her stats yet. There will be more stat tweak in 0.5 :) Glad you're enjoying it!

I live in perpetual fear that every time I see an update notification, it'll be about how you've lost interest in the project. So glad to hear things coming along well.

Can’t wait to see Hannah’s too

Praying Cactus

Exciting to hear the next version is progressing well. It still feels like we just got .4 so hearing over half the images have been rendered for .5 is awesome. Thanks for the update!

Biff the understudy

I was legit getting worried that you fell off the face of the earth.

Mortimer

Great work on the last release, by the way :D Is there any chance you might be able to fit in a couple more raises for the protagonist? It feels like, after getting back together with Alice, it's significantly more difficult to maintain a solid income, and while it didn't actually impact the last release for me, at the end I was definitely pushing up against running out of money. Or, I suppose, since Alice is getting a job, maybe have that reduce the cost of going out with her, or something? Also, the last release appeared to have debugging information enabled, and I noticed a couple of scenes where Alice would stay over (breakfast in bed, binge eating at night) that didn't appear to have any impact on her stats, and even seemed to lower her fullness (and maybe lower her greed? Not sure about this one, but I'm pretty sure there was no upward movement in any of her stats for these). Any chance those could actually have an impact on Alice? Or, maybe they do and I just missed it. Thanks again! Great game :D

HPab

Good idea, but the problem is that I'm constantly adding new bits to the game, which old saves won't take into account. If you use an old save with a new version, at best you'll get glitches and at worse it'll simply crash.

Would it be possible to get some way to skip the first few sections of the game? Not that I don't enjoy playing them, just that I think it might be good to try and help bug test the newer sections, if that makes sense? I understand if it's too much effort for a debug mode to be added, but even some premade saves could be useful.

Colin Cooke

Can’t wait :)