August Update Report (v0.3)

Where's our auditor? What's he reading? I can answer that last one. It might be Dylershaven's Eyes Abroad, a serious foreign-affairs gazette for serious men. Or it could be The Crescyt Chronicler, one of only 39 newspapers with that exact name in that huge High City! Or some other third thing.

Putting down my chisel and hammer to update you all on the update, since people start to get reasonable fears when the radio silence goes on too long. I am firmly in that maniacally productive part of production with a couple thousand words and image or two every day, constant progress, hacking away at that chunk of marble with massive blows to seemingly no effect... until the update magically takes shape and everything clicks into place.

Which is an unnecessarily wordy way of saying; way over halfway done. Not sure exactly how far over halfway we are.

Everything's planned, just write write write - lunch breaks, slow times, late nights, this game is a joy to create and if it wasn't spending this much time on it would be insanity!

We're looking at two long stories and a bucket of side content in the new City...

Planning for a fully functional beta release before the end of August; the public release is planned to coincide with launching the Steam store page, so that might take a bit longer with the Steam approval and such.

Dev builds out sooner than that for the Auditors among us.

I'll keep posting previews in the meantime. Know that IBH is 100% alive and getting close to v0.3 via a mountain of effort. As always, thank you all for your playtime, patronage, and patience!

P.S. - I'd be lying if I said watching IBH's continued upward monetary trajectory wasn't hugely encouraging (AKA patreon number goes up) . Feeds my hope/delusion of doing this full-time some day - imagine that. All the stories! And in the meantime, makes me feel better about dedicating so much time to development. If that Steam release next year goes well...

Enough of that. Dreams generally don't happen without a lot of elbow grease, and I am chugging that stuff right now.