Apologies

I wanted very badly to get the visual novel demo out tonight. I didn't exactly promise it'd be out by the end of February since I always knew there was a chance I wouldn't be able to make it, but that was my public goal and I really did try to make it happen. I've been cramming on it all day trying to get it out at the very last second but realistically even if I released it now, the people that were only planning on sticking around for February would've already missed it... 

I've run through one unforeseen silly snag after another, which shouldn't be surprising given I'm about two weeks into being a game developer and I only found the most suitable engine like a week ago but all the same. I'm literally sitting here, having just barely got everything in order but, it's not in a working state. There's like one little bit of code that's wrong and now it's all an unchanging black screen.

So. Yeah it can't happen this month. I realize it'll look bad if I put it out on March 1st and even moreso if it comes out a few hours after midnight. I swear to God I really did want it to be out at the end of the month, I wasn't stretching things out on purpose.

However what I was about to release was something I wasn't going to be all that happy with anyway. It would've been shorter than what I intended to release - which was already going to be fairly short anyway - and it wouldn't even have music! I was making a lot of compromises to try and get it out quicker. I also wanted very much to be able to let you choose your own name and I couldn't figure that out... that got thrown out by necessity as well. 

In a way I'm happy that I won't have to release that now. I want this game to make as good a first impression as it possibly can. Now I have the opportunity to roll back on those compromises. 

In conclusion I wish I had set the goal of making this by the end of the month in any month that wasn't February. I didn't think that one through, heh. Two or three extra days woulda gone a long way to help make that happen. 

If you became a $5 patron expecting the demo to come out this month I'm very sorry, I hope you've enjoyed exclusive stories and such unlocked with it in lieu of that.