Release Window: July!

Hey everyone!

Didn't realize it's already been nearly 2.5 weeks since I revealed the new Julie design.  Time flies X_X

Wanted to spend some time today just updating everyone on where the progress was for this next update of House Chores.

== Art ==

The new scene that will be featured in this new update to HC is complete!  Still needs to get animated but the art itself is finished which is usually the lengthiest part.  It's a juicy one ;)

As mentioned before, a big part of this update was getting Emily redrawn so she now has proper expressions.  In addition, Julie's bust was re-done to support costumes and give her a more appropriate range of emotions too for her bright personality! - a lot of future proofing tasks that needed to be done.

No new backgrounds/locations just yet.  This was the thing I was hoping to add in this update but the redraws kind of took priority.  The next update should focus on Emily and will include AT LEAST 1 new location.  Ideally, there are two locations I want to add though, her room & the laundry room.

Now, Mogucho (the artist) is working on some new clickables.  These are the overworld objects/characters that you see during parts of the day.  This is all that's left to get done as far as art is concerned right now.

== Release Window: July ==

Going to need time to obviously let art get finished but also put the update together.  For the most part, I don't think this update will take me too long as it's mostly adding a little bit more to Julie's story and patching up the sloppy job I did with her initial progression system.  (Under the hood, it's terrible.  I was pretty stressed at the time of that update I think hah...)

I don't see myself needing to push the update into August but if I do run short on time for any reason, I'll keep you all updated!  Like I said though, don't think that'll be necessary.

Normally I wouldn't address this but I did see some impatient comments over on the itch forum.  Really appreciate people's enthusiasm and excitement to see new House Chores updates but I can't stress enough: it takes time to get the art done and put it all together.  

The 6+ month wait between updates should be a thing of the past.  (This was due to losing the og artist and finding a new one).  But with the backlog of backgrounds, clickable objects, & bust refreshes, I won't be able to deliver with an update every 2 months quite yet.  We're getting there though!  Especially with Emily's update where I hope to have some of those new backgrounds done.  Those are huge roadblocks that eat up precious time that would otherwise be used for NSFW scenes.

Appreciate everyone staying patient though!  Trying to keep the wait between updates as short & efficient as possible X_X

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That's everything for this update!  Stay tuned for, likely a $3+ teaser of the new NSFW scene and then soon after, I think that update should be getting close to completion!

Thank you all so much for your support and I will see you all soon!