Faenon

Weekly update - May 23rd

Hi Everyone,

I was hoping to write about the newly released chapter 8 in this week's update but it's not quite there yet, I'm afraid.

I have around 20 or so renders to complete plus one animation. It's unlikely that I can get that done today but I should be able to wrap it up over this weekend.

It's just been the sheer scale of things and the complexity of the rendering (a lot of the sets in this chapter are new to me, that takes a lot more setting up). It was also my birth...

Weekly Update - May 16th

Hi Everyone,

I feel like this has been a really productive week, however it may not show when we look at the scene count numbers. I basically have 2 scenes to go in chapter 8, they are both on the large side, I'll probably put in there a small 3rd scene too, to wrap up the chapter.

So WTF have I been doing then? Well I've been tidying up the script significantly and testing, fixing and adding shots to the existing scenes, they are now in a much better place than they were before w...

Weekly update - May 9th

Hi Everyone,

Firstly an announcement as promised on my plans for the release of chapter 8. I've batted it around in my mind, between releasing a half chapter or just waiting until I have completed the full one. There is an obvious break point for the half chapter and all the work is complete for a half chapter release. But I'm not going to do it! I'm going to wait it out until the full chapter is done. Sorry if that disappoints some of you, the reasons though are two fold. Although, as ...

Weekly Update - April 2nd

Hi Everyone,

Last week I may have been a little optimistic when I targeted May 10th for Chapter 8. I've developed a bad habit of adding extra scenes to the script for it. It's gone from a small chapter to a pretty lengthy one. I've now slated 27 scenes for the chapter, which is way bigger than I thought. In terms of progress; 14 are fully complete with 3 others in a partial state right now.

The script is progressing well, the core structure is already in place for the whole of ch...

Steam version change

Hi All,

Quick note. I have had to implement a change to the Steam version. They were not happy that the game starts with the pair in high school, even though I clearly state they over 18 and NO scenes actually take place in the school itself (outside of the brief "lets go to the pub" scene). Anyway, if you are running the Steam version you will see a slightly different chapter 2, with the game starting AFTER the pair have finished their final year, it doesn't really follow a realistic a...

Weekly update - April 25th

Hi Everyone,

Some good progress this week. I have complete 13 scenes now for chapter 8 which includes 275 unique renders. I've probably underestimated how long the chapter will be which leads me to the next announcement.

Initially I had planed that chapter 8 would incorporate the summer holidays/vacation for the pair and all of year 2 at Finch Green. I've decided that there is way too much content in the summer part to deliver it that way. So the plan now is that chapter 8 will be...

Steam Sale

Hi All,

Just a quick note to let you know, that the Steam version will go on a 30% discount (Full Steam price is $20 USD) from tomorrow. The sale will run for a week ending on the last day of April.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3544480/Best_Friends/

Cheers,

Fae

Weekly update - April 18th

Hi Folks,

Slow and steady is probably the best way to describe this week's progress, I've now completed 9 scenes working on the next set of 3. These three are a little more involved though, so will take a little longer to put together. After they are done, I think another 6 more scenes will complete part one (the Summer Holidays) of Chapter 8. So I would say I'm at the halfway point right now of part one.

Still a little reluctant to put a time frame on the release, but if I can m...

Weekly update - April 11th

Hi Everyone,

Should be a short one this week. Steady progress on chapter 8. I've now completed the first 3 scenes and currently working concurrently on the next 3. That's kind of how the flow of this chapter goes. 8 has a lot of new locations to it, which slows down the development a little as it takes me a little time to think about and prepare a scene.

Chapter 8 as I mentioned in the past takes the pair through their summer hols and into year 2 of their studies. I'm thinking at...

Weekly update - April 5th

Hi Everyone,

I think most of you can guess what I've been up to this week. Chapter 7 is now complete and available for Best Friend tier to download. If you've had a chance to play it, I hope you enjoyed it, it's a little darker than previous chapters.

I think with Chapter 7 in particular, I would encourage everyone to play both paths, as it will be a completely different experience with a lot of path specific scenes and less shared ones.

I've also made Chapter 7 now availabl...

BF - Chapter 7 complete

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for you patience. Here it is the completed chapter 7. Enjoy :)

Cheers,

Fae

Chapter 7 complete

Will drop sometime today or tomorrow. I've been battling some mental health issues this week but I'm back fully focused on getting the chapter all done. In the last throngs of editing the script, redoing a couple of animations and end to end testing. Once that's all done, it'll be just image compression and building the distributions.

Weekly update - 28th March

Hi Folks,

I'm going to be a little up and down in this week's update, please forgive me in advance.

Starting with the positives. Excellent progress this week on Chapter 7. I have around 2 scenes left to go now, I would class neither as major effort scenes. Development I believe will end over the weekend or at worst early next week. If testing goes to plan, I should be able to roll out the completed chapter 7 by this time next week.

For the stats lovers out there, chapter 7 c...

Best Friends Launched on Steam

Hi all,

Just a really quick note to let everyone know, that Best Friends is now available on Steam at $20 USD. That will include all full chapter future updates. Half chapters will only drop here on Patreon. My process is to launch here first, then a few days later for the full chapters launch on Steam.

Cheers,

Faenon 

Weekly update - March 21st

Hi Folks,

Happy spring for people in the north Northern Hemisphere. I think it's a barmy -7c here this morning, to celebrate the first day of the make believe thing that is a Calgary spring :)

It's been a really productive week for me on Best Friends. I'm so happy with how much I've been able to get done and the general quality of the chapter right now. I'm putting the final touches to a huge scene as I write this, while working also on a couple of significant scenes at the same t...

Best Friends available on Steam - March 24th

Hi folks,

 just another quick reminder and huge beg for you to add Best Friends to your wishlist on Steam, if you've not done it yet. It will go on sale over there on Monday March 24th.

Wishlisting costs nothing and there is no obligation to buy but it does help me out by pushing up the game on Steam's algorithms.

Yes !!!!!

Forgive me for some personal celebration here, but after 56 years of waiting to see my hometown team win a major trophy, that drought is finally over as Newcastle United just won the Carabao Cup. "Michael" and "Emma" would be so happy right now :)

Weekly update - March 14th

Hi Folks,

A shorter update this week because frankly you are mostly aware of what I've been up to for the bulk of the last week. That of course was preparing and releasing part one of chapter 7. The rest of the week has been spent on one render heavy scene. I lost a couple of days rendering because I'm a dumbass :) I needed to create a new character and I built a bunch of scenes with them in it. Then I started to look at the character a little closer and thought they looked familiar. I ...

No spoilers please !!

Decisions, decisions ???

Chapter 6 is available to buy on Itch.

With the release of Chapter 7 part one, I've made chapter 6 available to purchase on Itch. It is priced at $10 USD, a little higher than previous chapters to keep it in line with other platforms.

Chapter 7 - Part One

Here it is folks, part one of chapter 7. It's not the longest update but a lot happens here.

Enjoy!

Fae

Double announcement

Firstly: As promised "Great Friend" tier now has access to Chapter 6. If you are on that tier of support you can pick it up from here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chapter-6-123665085

Secondly: I'm going to bite the bullet and split the delivery of Chapter 7 into 2 parts, with the first part being available later this week (The first part is all done, I will now go through end to end testing). The...

Steam - Approved !!!

Finally Best Friends past the Steam Page Approval Process. Can I ask a massive favour of everyone on here. Please, Please, please and more please add the game to your wishlist. This does not cost any money and is not any form of an obligation to buy but what it does is it pushes the game up on the Steam Algorithm and will help me out massively.

You can search "Best Friends" or use the link above.

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Weekly update - March 6th

Hi Folks,

It's another slow week of progress I'm afraid. The whole polish activity has definitely impacted my ability to work on new content. The good news is that, that process is all complete now and my focus is 100% now on chapter 7 development. I hope you've all picked up the patched version now, it may not show it to the casual look but a lot of work went into improving the old stuff. New renders were added, a couple of new animations and in some cases a lot of revamp in the dialog...

Patched versions available

Hi all,

I've completed the builds for both the "Great Friend" tier fixed patched version (chapter 5).

https://www.patreon.com/posts/119861171

And the free to all version (chapter 4)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/116346099

Please click on the appropriate link for your level of support. Please note that "Be...

Patched Chapter 6

Hi folks,

I've patched chapter 6 to fix a bunch of stuff. I did something I didn't need to do though, I created a brand new post for the patch. The problem with this is that the folks that used the buy post feature for the original chapter 6 download, will not have access to the new post.

I have though also updated that original post, so if you did buy the download, please go back to the post you bought and download the new version. Please do not re-buy the new post, unless you re...

Chapter 6 - Patched

Hi folks,

This one was a lot of work, it probably won't show a whole lot to most folks but I went through the entire game and fixed all the spelling, grammar and dialogue issues I found. There is a little bit of reworked script here. A few renders have been re-done or added. A couple of animations have been reworked and at least one added, if I remember rightly :)

This is polishing step one. I probably need to do the whole process again at some point and focus on more radical chan...

Weekly update - Feb 28th

Hi Everyone,

Two months down in 2025 already, this year seems to be disappearing faster than the stock price of my Ethereum! Don't do crypto kids :)

Progress: Not going to lie, it's been slower than I had hoped. Chapter 7 is probably going to be the largest single release I do. Like I said last week it's 25 scenes long. The temptation is to split the chapter release into 2 pieces, as I have done in the past. I have been trying to move away from that though, as I feel doing so...

How's this gay?

Spoiler alert unless you are a woman, it's not!!

Weekly Update - Feb 21

Hi Everyone,

It's been a hectic week for me. I've completed the outline story for Chapter 7, there will be a total of 25 scenes, I've fully scripted around 13 of them. Completed scenes are at 7 right now with probably 2 more being completed today. The number of renders stands at 145.

Outside of new content. I have been building the Steam page, I would like to show you a screen shot of it but I'm not sure about the Steam rules there. Anyway, it was, as I suspected not an easy proce...