Weekly Update - 29 July, 2024

Buckle up, everyone, there's news.

As you may or may not have heard via Tumblr already, FoA now has a tentative release date of September 2024 according to Steam, and early in that month according to HG staff. This is, of course, contingent on me getting the final version of the game back to them in a timely manner, as they've returned it to me after a solid couple months of editing.

I plan to spend the last few days this month doing that, with the ultimate goal of having it back to them by August 1. This should be quite possible, as most of the editing was copyediting, and the few continuity notes and so on that I have to address are generally fairly simple fixes to the game's code.

So that is what I will be working on for the next bit, with the caveat that the BIP will still be coming out as normal on the 31st. I was fortunate enough to both meet my 30k goal for the month and also finish Charon's chapter one scene yesterday, as well as get the testing done on that, so all I'll really have to do is post it and get it to all of you.

In other news, I think I've decided to give restructuring the Patreon a try. It's a serious risk to my ability to pay rent, but at least I live in a country with an actual social safety net, so there's that. The biggest change I'm planning to make is to make the BIP accessible at the $5 tier, and I know that's what most of you are here for, so you can see why I might be concerned haha. None of the tiers will be going away, but there will be a few benefits being adjusted; for example, I'm going down to one bonus content a month, and it will be moved to the $10 tier, and things like that.

I'll be sure to provide a more detailed summary of how the tiers will look as we get closer to the time; I plan to put this new structure into effect on 1 September, so until then everything will be the same, the August BIP will only be available to those of you at Blossom or higher, etc, etc.

Anyway, that's sort of the shape of things right now. I hope you're all having a fantastic week (I, for one, am watching lots of the Olympics), and I'll be back soon with the BIP and bonus content poll.

Cheers, everyone.