Pre-Release Update : How It Started VS How It's Going

Hello!
At the start of this month I had grand plans. There's a saying, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him/her your plans!"

This holds true this month as well unfortunately!

I wanted to do some poses so that I could start creating original reward content, but unfortunately the person I was relying on went M.I.A. nearly 1 week into the month. I haven't heard back from them, so it's a safe bet to say that plan went up in flames. ^_^

I also wanted to revise character designs for some of the new characters, but that also wasn't possible as well for the same reason mentioned above. Cest la vie, instead of slowing development on the project due to unforeseen circumstances, I just decided to focus exclusively on what is within my reach for a while.

Following suit, I have been working on the game in my spare time as usual.

Here are a few of the things I've been working on:

• Extending the main story even further. My goal is to work towards completing the prologue while also added expanded content into the game. The main reason for this is simple, new characters won't be added until Chapter 1 begins.
  This is mostly due to how the story unfolds.
• Revamping the beginning and earlier content for the game even further to make it more presentable. This will occur over time, but the process has already begun.
• Created a new scene for the Lull Forest (Deeper) , which allows me to revamp Fira's Earlier fight with Lyra.(As attached above)
• Addressed more backwards compatibility issues. I think about 90% of the old saves should work properly now.
• Added more story events (+4 at current with a few more in the works).
• Also I've taken a closer look at how the project was structured / written originally and made a few changes. Overall this has improved stability in the project.
• Finished the scene for the first bath area, "Waterfall" which you can get a glimpse of below.

• Attempted to fix the "android bug", and realized that it has to do with the build process Ren'py uses to make android builds. Since that's something a bit complex for me (I would have to download Android related software, learn it and sort out whatever the issue is during the build process myself) -- I  recommend using Joi Play to play HF on mobile starting with next release. I'm looking into it as we speak and will provide instructions on how to do so. This is something that would have been necessary moving forward at some point, so it happened earlier than later.

ETA for release is 28-th - 30th, with a strong emphasis on the 30th, as that gives me more time to put  content into the game (as usual).