Happy New Year!

Just getting a (long overdue) post in before the year's close, and to wish you guys a merry christmas and happy new year!

Not sure where to start or end the post, so I'll keep it mostly short. Lots of things that could be said on the overall pace of this release (and lot of things that HAS been said, though I've mostly kept the bitching to Discord), but it really just comes down to spending far, far too much time on the art. Some scenes got rather bloated, and some scenes simply included too much time spent on finnicky, inane stuff/mistakes that no one would ever have noticed anyway.

As mentioned before, gameplay part of the release was mostly finished months back. It's just been filling out the art and a bit of cutting since (and I'm in fact still in the process of this even tho I thought it was getting to a close as well). It's now at 75k images of the stuff that I even bothered to save, so we're probably half a million pictures generated into this, which is just actually stupid. I'll try and limit myself here for this last stretch, but as also mentioned before a few times, I really, really, really have to make sure this release is mostly perfect since it's the culmination of half a year's work by now and I just can't "waste it".

There was another test build just before Christmas and it turned out mostly bug free again at least, and the art is inching closer. I will have to make some kind of plaque with a list of names in the game for all you guys that sat through this drought. If you have privacy concerns/want some different name to be on there, simply drop me a message and I'll ofc comply!

Lastly, while I'm eternally grateful to all you guys that just stay subbed to keep the project afloat, I can also understand simply subbing for the beta access, and in that regard some ppl might feel cheated because of the extremely poor estimations. Always feel free to just reach out and I will refund the months that I can (believe it's 3). + it's just been Christmas season as well and presents aren't cheap and shit so it's completely understandable if people do.

Anyway: in terms of how far we're off, there are still some pieces to fix the last things on, some last cutting, and lastly, I want to redo Hermione's faces again again (the bases are already done so it hopefully won't take too long but I also might skip it for this round). Not going to give any time estimations because we've seen how that goes, but yeah, that's it for now.

Slightly rushed message and I'll clean up a bit tomorrow, but yeah, gotta head off. You guys have no idea how much I'm looking forward to sharing this one at fucking last. Cheers as always, and see you guys in the new year!

Will be another (FINAL-FINAL) art drop tomorrow too probably!